‘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.
ReadWhether 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?
ReadEvery 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.
ReadCan 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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Read moreFirst 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.
Read moreFirst 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.
Read moreFirst 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.
Read moreFirst 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.
Read moreArchitectural Survey was an annual review of contemporary architecture in Ireland, which ran from 1953-1972.
Read morePost 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreUTOPIA 7 is a published a study of utopian settlements in Ireland by students in the Dublin School of Architecture.
Read moreFuelled 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.
Read moreThis 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.
Read moreTwenty twentieth-century Irish buildings that students of architecture should know, as chosen by TU Dublin fourth-year architecture students.
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