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Black boxes, knowledge gaps, and mystic abysses

‘Black Boxes’ serve a unique role in the contemporary imagination. From theatre design to aviation and AI platforms, the appearance of the language of black boxes tends to signify that a knowledge or understanding gap has either emerged or been engineered. This article uses both physical and digital examples to explore what the various faces of this fluid metaphor can teach designers about expectations of control and accountability in emerging digital contexts.

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Future Reference

Who were the ‘bankies’?

Whether it's through re-design, security concerns or commercialisation, development often limits the unplanned possibilities of our urban spaces. This article celebrates a particular group, mostly adolescents, who regularly frequented the former Central Bank Plaza on Dame Street. Who were these so-called ‘bankies’ and what made this space suitable for them?

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Future Reference

The liquid lifeline of a city

Every great city was founded when an early settlement first situated itself along a river or by a body of water; Paris has its romantic Seine, Vienna the mighty Danube, Rome the historic Tiber. And Dublin? The humble Liffey, of course.

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Working Hard / Hardly Working

Co-habitations and co-productions: translating housing models

Can an approach of co-production to multi-residential environments offer more than an atomised accumulation of individual units and traverse the polarised perception of house vs apartment, as ingrained in the Irish national psyche?

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One Good Idea

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Architecture in Ireland: vol. 1, no. 5

Editor: Tomás O’Beirne.
Journal
€ 5.95 EUR

First published in 1978, Architecture in Ireland was a magazine which featured ‘news, views and reviews’, architecturally significant buildings, and descriptions and illustrations of proposed developments.

Voluntary Architectural Services, End of an Era, Matthew McDermott, UCD, University College Dublin, Golf Outing, Architects’ and Surveyors’ Golfing Society, RIAI Hon. Secretary, Con Manahan, UCD Building Lab, Eileen Gray Furniture, Foras Chief Resigns, Wall Insulation, RIAI Awards, Industrial History, Aspects of Irish Industrial History 1878 – 1978, Wood Quay, Six Soviet Cities, Moscow, Bukhara, Tashkent, Samarkand, Tbilisi, Lenningrad, Ove Arup & Partners, Varming Mulcahy Reilly Associates, Patterson Kempster & Shortall, John Sisk & Son, Joseph McCullough & Partners, Joseph Clancy, Boyd and Creed, G & T Crampton,
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Architecture in Ireland: vol. 1, no. 4

Editor: Tomás O’Beirne.
Journal
€ 5.95 EUR

First published in 1978, Architecture in Ireland was a magazine which featured ‘news, views and reviews’, architecturally significant buildings, and descriptions and illustrations of proposed developments.

RIAI Annual Conference, The Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Design Seminar, Draft Provisional Standards, School and Community, No ifs or buts, Thermal Performance and Energy Use in Housing, UCC Appoints Architects, New Information Centre, Housing Needs; Foras Course, Derry Church Commended, Modular Dictionary, Chamber of Commerce on Urban Problems, York Courses, Small Firms in the Inner City, Thermal Performance and Energy Use in Housing, Department of Education, housing, news, Taoiseach’s Residence, Phoenix Park, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Institute for Industrial Research and Standards, OECD, School building, UCC, A&D Wejchert, Murray and Murray, Building Information Centre, Liam McCormick, Steelstown Church, Modular dictionary, Downes Eire, Jerome O’Connor, South Dublin Construction Co., Tidy Towns Competition, Avanti, Dux, Klaessons, Supertube, Joseph McCullough and Partners, JV Tierney & Co, Seamus Monaghan, M Loughnane, Competition for Taoiseach’s Residence, Society of Designers, Thomas Davis Memorial, Downes Eire, Jerome O’Connor
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Architecture in Ireland: vol. 1, no. 3

Editor: Tomás O’Beirne.
Journal
€ 5.95 EUR

First published in 1978, Architecture in Ireland was a magazine which featured ‘news, views and reviews’, architecturally significant buildings, and descriptions and illustrations of proposed developments.

Giedion, Siegfried: Space, Time and Architecture; Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sixth Printing, 1976, Paul Rudolph, Down Mexico Way, Registration, The RIAI Bursary, Travelling Scholarship, Architectural “Nobel Prize”, New Architects, DIT Bolton Street, UCD, The Dolphin, Sink or Swim, Russian Tour, Walker Exhibitions, Surprise, Brady, Shipman, Martin, Landscape Architects, John B. Barry, P. F. Covney & Son, J. J O’Leary & Sons, Paul Rudolph, Holiday homes, graduate architects, Office interiors, Office fit-out, International Council for Building Research Studies and Documentation, Standard Method of Measurement of Building Works, RDS Building Exhibition, Siegfried Giedion, Space Time and Architecture, Oscar Richardson, Padraig Murray, World Registration Council for Architects, RIAI Bursary, RIAI Travelling Scholarship, Architectural Nobel Prize, New Architects, Dolphin Hotel, USSR Tour, Whitegate, Cork, Trabolgan Homes Ltd, John B Barry & Partners, PF Covney & Son, JJ O’Leary & Sons LTD, Cork Harbour, Kincora, Cramvel Linen, John England, OMK, 19 Herbert Place, Grand Canal, London Office, Bolsover Street, Alec Clarke, CBC Systems, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Leeson Street, Irish Times,
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Architecture in Ireland: vol. 1, no. 2

Editor: Tomás O’Beirne.
Journal
€ 5.95 EUR

First published in 1978, Architecture in Ireland was a magazine which featured ‘news, views and reviews’, architecturally significant buildings, and descriptions and illustrations of proposed developments.

The Gold Medal, RIAI Awards, Land Prices, RIBA Directory, Kinsale Architectural Heritage, Is this A Record, Building and Engineering Claims, W. T. Major and A. Ransom, Housebuilding Slowdown, Housing Needs, Assessment, Sam Stephenson, Brian Traynor, Gerry Flynn, Paul Richardson, Brouagh Moriarty, Ove Arup and Partners, J. A. Kenny and Partners, John Sisk and Sons, John Donat Photography, RIAI, P. Twamley, J. McCullough & Partners, J. V. Tierney & Partners, S. Monahan & Partners,
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Architecture in Ireland: vol. 1, no. 1

Editor: Tomás O’Beirne.
Journal
€ 5.95 EUR

First published in 1978, Architecture in Ireland was a magazine which featured ‘news, views and reviews’, architecturally significant buildings, and descriptions and illustrations of proposed developments.

An Introduction to Modern Ulster Architecture, Kilkenny - Its Architecture and its history, book review, University, Modular concrete blocks, National Specification, Lecture theatres, Library, UCC, UCD, Brown Thomas, Duke Street, Russia, Architectural tour, SfB, An Foras Forbatha, Lansdowne Pavilion, Dan Henihan, British Agreement Board, urban communities, RIAI Triennial Gold Medal, Housing Medal, USSR Embassy, Costello Murray and Beaumont, Modern Ulster architecture, Ulster architectural society, North of Ireland Arts Council, David Evans, Katherine M.Lanigan, Gerald Tyler, Thomas Garland & Partners, Boyd & Creed, John Sisk & Sons, JA Kenny & Partners, Belfield, UCD, University College Dublin, Pieterse Davison International Ltd., gridlink, school design, Neo-Georgian facades, Architects as Artists, UCC, University College Cork, library, lecture hall, lecture theatre, university, S McD Murphy & Partners, DeLeuw Chadwick OhEocha & Partners, MacArdle McSweeney & O’Malley, PJ Hegarty & Sons, Architectural Corner Boys, To Russia with Pearse, Guide to SfB, New Lansdowne Pavilion, Agreement Board for The Knock, Urban Communities, Nominations Sought for RIAI Gold Medal, Inventive Planner, USSR Embassy Building, An Introduction to Modern Ulster Architecture, David Evans, Ulster Architecture Heritage Society, Kilkenny – Its History and Architecture, Katherine M. Lanigan, Gerald Tyler
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Post Industrial

Editor: Miriam Delaney.
Book
€ 0.00 EUR

Post Industrial features a series of essays discussing the physical and material world of Irish industrial settlements; how these villages as worked a social spaces, while at the same time highlighting future conservation priorities.

Industrialisation, Great Famine, Act of Union, settlements, model villages, Mountrath, Laois, Society of Friends, Charles Henry Coote, Statistical Survey of Laois 1800, industry, brewery, pottery, woollen mills, cotton, Kilkenny, village, Earl of Ormond, crossroad plan, linear town, town square, High Street, triangular centre, village morphology, Louisburgh, Mayo, Dunmanway, Cork, Maynooth, Kildare, Tallow, Waterford, Belmullet, Johnstown, Ballyragget, Geashill, Offaly, Castleblayney, Monaghan, Eyrecourt, Rathdowney, Galway, Lurgan, Armagh, Monivea, New Birmingham, Athenry, Slieveardagh Hills, Glengoole, Robert Ffrench, Kilcooley, Utopian Socialism, Stratford, Slaney, town planning, crescent form, Abbeyleix, Laois, Hillsborough, Down, Tyrrellspass, Meath, Mountbellew, Galway, Johnstown, Kilkenny, Slane, Westport, Ballyhaise, Cavan, Castlewellan, Down, piers, quays, Roundstone, Binghamstown, Killala, Achill, Knightstown, Kerry, Carrigaholt, Cork, Balinskelligs, Ballyvaughan, Liscannor, Rossaveel, Old Head, Inishturk, Raughly, Brandon, Spiddal, Barna, Seafield, Kilbaha, Dingle, Cahersiveen, Doonbeg, Cleggan, Clifden, New Quay
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Architecture in Ireland: vol. 1, no. 5

Editor: Tomás O’Beirne.
Journal
€ 5.95 EUR

First published in 1978, Architecture in Ireland was a magazine which featured ‘news, views and reviews’, architecturally significant buildings, and descriptions and illustrations of proposed developments.

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Architecture in Ireland: vol. 1, no. 4

Editor: Tomás O’Beirne.
Journal
€ 5.95 EUR

First published in 1978, Architecture in Ireland was a magazine which featured ‘news, views and reviews’, architecturally significant buildings, and descriptions and illustrations of proposed developments.

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Architecture in Ireland: vol. 1, no. 3

Editor: Tomas O'Beirne.
Journal
€ 5.95 EUR

First published in 1978, Architecture in Ireland was a magazine which featured ‘news, views and reviews’, architecturally significant buildings, and descriptions and illustrations of proposed developments.

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Architecture in Ireland: vol. 1, no. 2

Editor: Tomás O’Beirne.
Journal
€ 5.95 EUR

First published in 1978, Architecture in Ireland was a magazine which featured ‘news, views and reviews’, architecturally significant buildings, and descriptions and illustrations of proposed developments.

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Architecture in Ireland: vol. 1, no. 1

Editor: Tomas O’Beirne.
Journal
€ 5.95 EUR

First published in 1978, Architecture in Ireland was a magazine which featured ‘news, views and reviews’, architecturally significant buildings, and descriptions and illustrations of proposed developments.

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Architectural Survey 1971

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 EUR

Architectural Survey was an annual review of contemporary architecture in Ireland, which ran from 1953-1972.

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Post Industrial

Editor: Miriam Delaney.
Book
€ 0.00 EUR

Post Industrial features a series of essays discussing the physical and material world of Irish industrial settlements; how these villages as worked a social spaces, while at the same time highlighting future conservation priorities.

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Department of Architecture and Town Planning, DIT Bolton Street, 1992-1994

Editors: Edmund O’Shea, Noel Jonathan, James Horan.
Book
€ 0.00 EUR

The first publication by the Department of Architecture and Town Planning at DIT Bolton Street celebrates the work of both staff and students during the academic years 1992/93 and 1993/94.

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UTOPIA 7

Editor: Miriam Delaney.
Book
€ 0.00 EUR

UTOPIA 7 is a published a study of utopian settlements in Ireland by students in the Dublin School of Architecture.

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Carlow Carbon Futures: vol. 1

Editors: Sean Brunswick, Orla McKeever, Sam Carse, Juliette Bosschaert.
Book
€ 0.00 EUR

Fuelled by love, rage, and imagination, this publication displays the wide variety of student work produced as part of a regional vision for a zero-carbon County Carlow by 2050.

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The Hidden Architecture of Things

Editors: Gary A. Boyd, Gregory Keeffe.
Book
€ 0.00 EUR

This book investigates the global architecture of commodities. It does so by examining the spaces of production and transportation of seven specific items, chosen for their ubiquity within everyday life. In doing so, we not only realise how a washing machine can relate to a banana, but also how, as architects, we might begin to design alternatives.

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20 Irish Buildings You Should Know

Editors: Róisín Bean, Tim Connell, Brian Gargan, Paul Kelly, Adam McLoughlin, Jack Prendergast.
Book
€ 0.00 EUR

Twenty twentieth-century Irish buildings that students of architecture should know, as chosen by TU Dublin fourth-year architecture students.

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