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Absolute Wasters / Outside In

Peter O’Grady reviews 'Absolute Wasters', a panel discussion between Tanad Aaron, Ciarán Cuffe, Jane Larmour, Ste Murray and Orla O’Kane. The discussion was chaired by Professor Hugh Campbell and organised by UCD student curators. The event was held on Friday May 22nd as part of the opening night of 'Outside In', the UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy’s annual end-of-year exhibition.

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Is creativity what makes us human?

Creativity has long been the human capacity we considered beyond the reach of any machine. Most can agree that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has crossed the threshold of being on the periphery to our work and is now embedding itself into our thinking, our workflows, and our society. As these shifts begin influencing the creative industries, we have to ask: what truly changes, and is creativity still what makes us human?

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Future Reference

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
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RIAI Bulletin 8

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.

Ordinary General Meeting, OGM of the RIAI, President’s Report, Honorary Secretary’s Report, Revision of By-Laws, Maintenance of Historic Buildings, Housing Conference, Housing Competition, The Architect and the Environment, RIAI Visiting Boards, National Prices Commission Study, Architects in Nepal, Seminar on Architecture and Urban Planning, UIA Seminar at Kazimierz, International Public Health Seminar, Local Government, Planning & Development Act, Hospital Building Programme, CBAE, EEC, New Office Block, National Prices Commission, Lecture by Mr Massoth, Cattle Market site, Commonwealth Association of Architects, Architectural Education, Reciprocity and Interrecognition, Professional Practice, Professional Organisation, CAA Finance and Organisation, EEC Matters, Council Matters, Local Government Bill 1973, Hospital Building Programme, Prices Variation Clause Claims, library, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, AGM, minutes, meeting minutes, exhibition, competition, symposium, materials, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, CAA, members, Election, report, EEC, housing, public relations, Reinstatement, Resignation, Transfer of Class, Seminar on Architecture and Urban Planning, UIA Seminar at Kazimierz (Poland), International Public Health Seminar, Short Courses at the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, York, Local Government (Planning Development) Bill 1973, Local Government Re-Organisation, RIAI Conference 1974, Hospital Building Programme, Prices Variation Clause-Claims, Revision of Time Chart for Principals, National Prices Commission Study, Library, Architects Required in Nepal, Summer work required by Technician Students, International Conference on Registration, Nomination of the International Jury, Travelling Scholarships, Combined Prize, Visiting Board to Technician Course, College of Technology, Bolton St., Dublin, Joint RIAI/RIBA Visiting Board to UCD, RIAI Visiting Boards, The Architect and the Environment, Architectural Education, Reciprocity and Interrecognition, Professional Practice, Professional Organisation, CAA Finance and Organisation Honorary Treasurer’s Report, Presentation of Certificates, Revision of By-Laws, President’s Report, Committees and Representatives, Technician Representative on Council, RIAI Conference and Dinner/Dance, Maintenance of Historic Buildings, Housing Conference, Housing Competition, Final Examination, Local Government (Planning & Development) Act 1963, Local Government Re-organisation, Hospital Building Programme, CBAE, EEC, New Office Block, 8 Merrion Square, National Prices Commission, Lecture by Mr. Massoth, Cattle Market Site, The Influence of the Institute, Public Relations, President’s Inaugural Address
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The Sprawling Newspaper

Editors: Michelle Delea, Sarah Mulrooney, Niamh Hurley, Anastasiya Karabanava, Darren O’Connor, Grace Kiernan.
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The Sprawling Newspaper emerged during the production of The Sprawling Octopus of an Elevated Highway, a documentary film which centres around a public campaign against the B.K.S. traffic plan for Cork in 1968.

BKS Traffic Plan, City Seventy Planning Group, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork city, Architecture, Activism, Public Engagement, Documentary, Culture Night, English Market, Peace Park, Barrack Street, Good Shepherd Campus, St. Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Bantry Library, Mary Leland, Harry Wallace, John Heffernan, Des Heffernan, John Santry, Neil Hegarty, Gerard O’Callaghan, Gerard McCarthy
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RIAI Bulletin 41

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.

Comment, RIAI Reports, Diary, Cryptoporticus and Partners, Hardcore, Review, Development Control, Rapid Rail Project, Richview Open Day, Neoprene, Oireachtas Committee on Building Land, Council, Letter, Joint Committee on Building Land, Leinster House, Residential Roads, The National Monuments Advisory Council, Northern Report, Mayo Report, RHA Exhibition, SDI Student Event, The Conservation of Historic Structures, Fairview - A Rapid Rail Maintenance Facility, Signal Relay Room to Central Train Control Building - Connolly Station, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, Royal Hibernian Academy, AAI, Architectural Association ireland, SDI, Society of Designers in Ireland, train, rail, station, Connolly Station, UCD, University College Dublin
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Architecture Ireland 296

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 #296 focuses on the theme 'architecture in practice'.

book review, building review, interview
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Architecture in Ireland - vol. 1, no. 6

Editor: Tomás O’Beirne.
Journal
€ 5.95 

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 Conference, Structural Engineers, Low Cost Churches, Planning Appeals, How Not to, The Irish Concrete Society, Technicians’ Exhibition, No Architect!, Home Extension – Dublin 4, Peter and Mary Doyle, UIA In Mexico, Agricultural Credit Corporation, Michael Kearns, Pieterse Davison International, Merry Nisbet and Partners, Fairhurst Garland and Partners, Varming Mulcahy Reilly Associates
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Architecture in Ireland - vol. 1, no. 5

Editor: Tomás O’Beirne.
Journal
€ 5.95 

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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2ha: the journal of suburban design #05

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
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€ 4.00 

2ha #05 considers the relationship between language and suburban space. Three essays respond to the fractured process of translation that has come to define the territory of suburbia.

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Architecture Ireland 304

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #304 focuses on the theme of ‘local authority’.

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Architectural Survey 1959

Editor: Patrick M. Delany
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

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Architectural Survey 1967

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

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Architecture Ireland 277

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #277 focuses on topics such as the housing crisis, and celebrating O'Donnell and Tuomey's Royal Gold Medal.

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RIAI Bulletin 25

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

Editors: Edmund O’Shea, Noel Jonathan, James Horan.
Book
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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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Regional Planning: a review of regional studies

Author: Henk van der Kamp.
Book
€ 7.95 

Carried out by An Foras Forbartha, this study was conducted to develop linkages between local, regional, and national planning in Ireland.

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A Guide to Modern Architecture in Dublin

Editor: Tomás O'Beirne.
Book
€ 9.00 

Featuring projects from 1953 to 1977, this book lays out 109 examples of modern architecture in Dublin, varying in occupation and scale, from small housing schemes and churches, to masterplan university development and city office blocks.

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Carlow Carbon Futures: vol. 1

Editors: Sean Brunswick, Orla McKeever, Sam Carse, Juliette Bosschaert.
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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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Dublin School of Architecture Yearbook 2018

Editors: Carol Lawlor, Deimante Paplauskaite, Alice George, Paris Brown, Conor Grossman.
Book
€ 0.00 

An annual yearbook featuring student work from the Dublin School of Architecture, TU Dublin.

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Domestic

Author: Dominic Stevens
Book
€ 5.90 

Domestic is a reflection on the design of domestic spaces by architect Dominic Stevens.

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