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Drafting Identity: My job is not my hobby

In this article, Ciara O’Connell closes our mini-series ‘Drafting Identity’ which focuses on the experience of women in Architectural Education from both personal and professional perspectives, supporting the FIAE movement. Ciara explores the pressures a career in architecture places on life outside of work, and the significant material impacts that places on women, in particular.

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Present Tense

Totems: Selected Essays on Architecture - Book Review

Kevin Donovan reviews Irénée Scalbert's book 'Totems: Selected Essays on Architecture', published by Park Books in 2026.

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Open Space

The kids are alright

Gary Hamilton reviews a lecture by REIR Studio, part of the 'Conversation Club' lecture series presented by the Office of Public Works in partnership with the National Library of Ireland. The lecture was held on Wednesday May 13th in the Joly Theatre of the National Library of Ireland.

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Modernism is Almost All Right Issue #3: Ethel Bailey Furman: A Career in Architecture

Ethel Bailey Furman's commitment to providing fellow African Americans with buildings that expressed Christian faith, economic achievement, and equal political rights in the face of Jim Crow segregation was itself modern, even if it only occasionally generated forms that were obviously so. Equally and obviously modern, argues Kathleen James-Chakraborty, was that an African American woman was designing buildings in and around the former capital of the Confederacy, and in a state which adopted a policy of Massive Resistance to school integration.

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Modernism is Almost All Right
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Architecture Ireland 309

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #310 focuses on the theme of ‘obsolescence’.

Conceptions of change: An architectural history of obsolescence, Calculating the cost of building: Obsolescence, architecture and the climate crisis, Thinking about the future: Designing buildings for retrofit, Non-linear thinking: Obsolescence within a circular built environment, Expiry date unknown: The precious persistence of Phibsboro Centre, Detail: Bear Market Coffee, DUA, Flexibility and workplace resilience, That moment between the complexities of the past and an unknown future, A return to ‘happy mistakes’: How 3D printing can influence the architectural design process, Housing, Architecture, and the Edge Condition: Dublin is Building, 1935-1975, Housing in Ireland: The A-Z guide, Eutopian Worlds, Tactful Confidence, Keeping Ireland Modern, Architecture as a story-telling art, Early Buildings Conference, Brutal(ist) Nostalgia, Poetic Pragmatism, RIAI Gandon Medal, Learning from Peter Rice: Reflections on a collaborative student project, Measuring embodied carbon: Translating information into action, Between Gandon and Grafton, Premises for Mr R.J Duggan: no.32 Dame Street Dublin, David Adjaye, Ellen Rowley, Traumnouvelle, Lorcan Sirr, Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter
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Ireland in the Year 2000

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€ 7.95 

This paper documents the proceedings of a colloquy on Ireland in the Year 2000, held in Kilkea Castle in February 1980.

National resources, energy, the human resource, political pressure, global food requirements, environmental pressure, consumerism, technological, intellectual investment, ACOT, Institute of Public Administration, society, big government, Maynooth College, NUIM, the role of the state, towards a new synthesis, economic and social research institute, employment and leisure, national institute for higher education, UCD, university college Dublin, costal, industrial development authority, an foras talúntais, confederation of Irish Industry,
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Architecture Ireland 313

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #313 focuses on the theme of 'Limerick'.

Settlement, building, segregation: A history of Limerick city, Fundamental base: Thinking of the city from the ground up, Urban innovation: Realising the potential of Limerick’s Georgian neighbourhood, +Limerick: Innovation and infrastructure in the positive energy city, Many Limericks: The edge of the city, From Mellick to Bohane: Limerick and its literature, Ireland House Tokyo competition, Remembering Brian Hogan, Remembering Ian Campbell, Setting the scene, Future proofing your business for the ‘blended workplace’ of the future, Open Heart City, The Construction Contracts Act 2013 and insolvency: will they work together?, Publication of sanction decision, Space for Architecture: the work of O’Donnell + Tuomey, Cork: City and County, RIAI Women in Architecture 2020, Making space happen
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Architecture Ireland 275

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #275 focuses on topics such as Irish modernism and contemporary Irish design.

architecture review, book review, irish modernism, irish architecture, commercial architecture
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Architecture Ireland 284

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
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€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #284 focuses on the theme of 'housing & place'.

architecture review, building review, housing, urban planning, town planning
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Architecture Ireland 293

Editor: Dr. Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #293 focuses on the theme of 'designing Ireland's commercial infrastructure'.

architecture review, book review, interview, infrastructure
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RIAI Bulletin 49

Editor: J. Owen Lewis.
Journal
€ 4.75 

Beginning in 1972, the RIAI Bulletin was a monthly newsletter to inform Institute members of the wide range of matters with which the RIAI was involved.

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RIAI Bulletin 7

Editor: Peter Ferguson.
Journal
€ 4.75 

Beginning in 1972, the RIAI Bulletin was a monthly newsletter to inform Institute members of the wide range of matters with which the RIAI was involved.

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Architecture Ireland 278

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #278 focuses on the theme of ‘a year of architecture - 2015’.

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Architecture Ireland 319

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #319 focuses on the theme of 'public space'.

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RIAI Bulletin 40

Editor: J. Owen Lewis.
Journal
€ 4.75 

Beginning in 1972, the RIAI Bulletin was a monthly newsletter to inform Institute members of the wide range of matters with which the RIAI was involved.

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Architecture Ireland 283

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #283 focuses on the theme of 'Strength, Utility and Grace'.

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New Dimensions in Regional Planning: A Case Study of Ireland

Author: Jeremiah Newman.
Book
€ 7.95 

This book was the first in a series on development planning by An Foras Forbartha, and followed the first conference on regional planning ever to be held in Ireland, in May 1965.

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House and Home

Editor: Colum O'Riordan.
Book
€ 10.00 

House and Home features over forty original architectural drawings, as well as publications, models and photographs, for residential projects in Ireland. Reflecting the chronological spread of the Irish Architectural Archive’s holdings, the works range from the mid 18th century to the late 20th.

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The Relative Importance of Elements of Low Rise Housing Environments

Author: Ray Mulvihill.
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€ 7.95 

This working paper documents research undertaken to discover residents’ views on their housing environments to identify those elements associated with overall satisfaction and to make such information available to designers and policy makers.

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Dublin School of Architecture Yearbook 2018

Editors: Carol Lawlor, Deimante Paplauskaite, Alice George, Paris Brown, Conor Grossman.
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An annual yearbook featuring student work from the Dublin School of Architecture, TU Dublin.

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Observation Study of Housing Estate Elements

Authors: R. Mulvihill, E. Burke, N. Byrne.
Book
€ 7.95 

This paper reports on a study investigating aspects of housing estates related to the pedestrian precinct or residential yard concept.

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UTOPIA 7

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

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