Sign up to our newsletter

Sign up to our newsletter for all the latest new and updates.

Become a member

Membership of Type allows unlimited access to our online library. Join to support new research and writing on the design of the built environment.

You can read more about membership here.

Become a member

Already a member? Login to your account to avail of unlimited downloads.

Type is a platform for design in the built environment. We aim to share knowledge, increase accessibility, and support a culture of critique.

Articles

A space for public opinion and debate, engaging with a broad range of contributors in architecture, landscape, urban design, planning, and beyond.

The making of change

In this article, Brian Kelly proposes that architects prioritise community-led making as a means of translating complex issues into more tangible and accessible forms. Drawing on insights from two personal projects, he argues that change must be ‘made’ through time, passion, and conversation with others.

Read
One Good Idea

Retelling retelling

Norman Price reviews 'The Studio Sessions of A2 Architects,' a series of discussions and recorded podcasts created and produced by Orla O'Kane. The series had seven sessions across July and August 2026. It celebrated the twenty years since the establishment of A2 Architects with conversations between Peter Carroll and curated guests. Discussions took place across two venues in Dublin and one in Spain. The Studio Sessions podcast was supported by the Arts Council through a 2026 Project Award.

Read
the write-up

The Exception vs. The Rule: Rethinking Ireland’s Rural One-Off House

In this article, Joseph Kavanagh explores the resurgence of the rural one-off house, its polarising legacy, and whether the typology could be reimagined as a vehicle for collective living to support rural communities.

Read
Working Hard / Hardly Working

Modernism is Almost All Right #6: Functionalism-widely-understood: Hannes Meyer’s modernist legacy for the 21st Century.

Georg Leidenberger explores Hannes Meyer's radical functionalism-widely-understood - which resulted in architecture that was not only economically accessible to the masses but that also generated built environments attending to all aspects of human life, and speaking to social and natural belonging.

Read
Modernism is Almost All Right
See all articles

Library

The Type online library is a digital repository of publications featuring unique research and fresh insights on the design of the built environment.

All journals and books are free to download for Type members; please login or use the download button for access.

Non-members can purchase items from the library on a one-off basis or become a member of Type to avail of the full benefits of membership.

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

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

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.

Yearbook, thesis, student work, staff work, project, idea, Bolton street, design technology, freehand drawing, graphics, geometrical drawing, descriptive geometry, analysis, perception, model, drawing, study, precedent, Study Sheets, Vernacular Architecture, Keith McMullin, Aidan Nolan‍, Form Study, Rory Brady, Judith Ryan, ‍Graphics, Eoin Kingston, Edel Collins, ‍Still Life, Ultan Donagher‍, Spatial Study, Edel Collins, ‍House Project, ‍Cubic Study, Rosemary Costello, Deirdre McManus, John Smyth, Measured Drawing, Liam McLoughlin, Alan Furlong, Aidan Nolan, Ultan Donagher, Sharon O’Brien, Sinead Bourke‍, Medical Accommodation, Michael Ring, T.G. Flynn, Fergal Fitzpatrick, Ruth Herman, Rory Brady, ‍Brick Pavilion, Michael Ring, Fergal Fitzpatrick, Eoin Kingston, ‍Timber Pavilion, Conor Moriarty, Susan Dawson, Oisin Clancy, Rory Brady, Sinead Bourke, Michael Ring, Fergal Fitzpatrick, Eoin Kingston, ‍Lifeguards’ Tower, Eamon Gogarty, ‍Futuristic Leisure Centre, ‍Kindergarten‍, Study Sheets: Bordeaux, Berlin, Chicago, Louis Kahn, Adolf Loos, ‍Water Testing Station, Thomas Sexton, Patrick Harrington, Darragh Murphy, ‍Yacht Repair Facility, Michael Ring, Rosemary Bradley, Sinead Hughes, ‍Vertical Composition, Jennifer Lynch, Sinead Hughes, Sinead Cullen, Ann Canning, ‍Urban Projects at Smithfield, Amiens Street Station, Grand Canal Dock, Parnell Street, Christchurch, Patrick Street, Seamus Hanrahan, Sue Stringer, Gerard Harvey, Sharon O’Brien, Rossa Prendergast, ‍Artists’ Gallery Annascau, Thomas Sexton, Darragh Murphy‍, Artists’ Retreat Inistioge, Veronica Blake, Gerard Harvey, ‍Interact 1993 Student Accommodation, Aoife O’Donnell, Donal Hickey, Keith Graham, ‍Interact 1994 School of Music, Rossa Prendergast, Eleanor Masterson, Fergal Fitzpatrick, David Dwyer, Sterrin O’Shea, Eleanor Donnelly, Jennifer Clarke, Gerard Harvey, Sinead Hughes, Sheep Farmer’s House, Alan de Lacy, ‍Yacht Club, Donal Hickey, Martin Colreavy‍, Chapel and Cemetery, R. Quinn, Gary Mongey, ‍Galway Courthouse, Eithne Moran, David Creighton, Gary McGinty‍, RIAI Headquarters, Temple Bar, Hugh Kelly ‍Kilkenny Railway Station, Keith Graham, B.A Dowdall, Martin Colreavy ‍RIAI Travelling Scholarship – Rural Resource Centre, Raphoe‍, RIAI Travelling Scholarship – Research and Development Centre, Limerick, Patrick Harrington, Donal Hickey, Marcus Reid, Peter McGovern‍, Thesis: National Opera HouseDavid Mansfield 1993‍Thesis: Chester Beatty Library, Stephen Roe 1993‍, Thesis: Oceanarium and Research Centre, Joanna Maher 1993‍, Thesis: International Advertising Agency, Jacques D’Arcy 1994‍, Thesis: Dublin Stock Exchange, Alan Begley 1994‍, The work of staff, Lego Architecture, J. Neil Downes‍, Sculpture and House, Eamonn O’ Doherty‍, Cliffs of Moher Competition, Niall McCullough, Valerie Mulvin‍, Athlone Library, Neil Sholdice, ‍Graphics, Ditte Kummer-O’Connor‍, Mews House, Cathal Crimmins
Read more

2ha: the journal of suburban design #01

Editor/Author: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #01 explores the potential of mapping in understanding the suburban condition.

suburbia, mapping, route, speed, movement, car-scape, walking, Goatstown, Dundrum, Dublin, a stranger in a strange land
Read more

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.

Under construction, leisure, clubhouse, health, residential, social housing, showroom, Opera House, church, ecclesiastical, religious, hotel, hospitality, pavilion, factory, estate, sculpture, pitch, apartment, TCD, Trinity College Dublin, pub, bar, renovation, refurbishment, aerial photography, photography
Read more

The Dublin Region: Advisory Plan and Final Report (Part I)

Author: Myles Wright.
Book
€ 7.95 

The first of the two volumes, The Dublin Region: Advisory Plan and Final Report (Part I) examines the social, economic and physical resources of county Dublin and its environs with a view to guide the use of land and public and private building works for the following thirty years.‍

Metropolitan Dublin, Man-made Aspects of the Region, Compact Grouping of Population, Small Towns, Dublin’s Port and Airport, The City of Dublin, the Region in Summary, Need for Forecasts, Basics of Forecasts, Population Growth and Distribution, Future Distribution, Conditions Governing Growth, Advantages of Metropolitan Dublin, The Choices to be Made, Favourable Location Needed, Growth near Dublin, Sharp Boundary between City and Countryside, Rural Employments, Small Size of Towns, Encouragement of Growth, Study of Rural Centres, Access to Trunk Roads, Regional Road Proposals, Choice of Centres for Development, An Uaimh (Navan) and Arklow, Local District Centres, Scale of Growth Recommended, Major Growth Probable, Estimates of Social Need, Spreading the Lord, The Central Problem, The Great Change, Determination to Use Cars, Three Aims, New Towns, Near Together, 150000 dwelling, density of development, Three Requirements of New Development, 20,000 acres needed, Growth of Motor Traffic, Impossibility of Speedy and Large Road Improvements in Dublin, Traffic Congestion a Dublin Problem, Spreading the Load, choice of sites, disadvantage of the coasts, northern coast, southern coast, advantages of the western area, growth westwards, proposed sites, linear towns and green spaces, gradual dispersal of traffic load, traffic routes and access roads, advantages of a grid pattern, new major routes, proposed road framework for metropolitan Dublin, Relationship of Road Framework and the Western Towns, Road Proposals for the City, Greater Expenditure on roads, Division of Expenditure between central and outer roads, peak-hour, travel by rail likely to Decline, travel by Car, Bus travel to the centre, express buses on cross-journeys, public transport in other districts, town centres, layout and transport needs, sites for factories, offices, industrial estates, residential layout, pedestrian crossings, trade, cargo handling, shipping
Read more

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.

Fencing, housing estate, cul-de-sac, local authority, front wall, front garden wall, landscaped boundary, shrub boundary, wooden fence, edge maintenance, private estates, lawn, front lawn, back garden, parked cars, Planning Division, Portlaoise, Tralee,
Read more

Accuracy and Dimensional Control in Building

Author: Nicholas M. Ryan.
Book
€ 7.95 

This paper explains the nature of dimensional deviation in prefabricated elements and that the development of designs should include a clear approach to accommodate or control deviations when they do occur.

Prefabricated, tolerance, environmental conditions, weatherproof joints, permitted deviation, machine made, plumbness,
Read more

Architecture Ireland 312

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #312 focuses on the theme of 'small works'.

Read more

RIAI Bulletin 30

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.

Read more

RIAI Bulletin 27

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.

Read more

Architecture Ireland 296

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 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'.

Read more

RIAI Bulletin 45

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.

Read more

Architecture Ireland 317

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #317 focuses on the theme of ‘housing as a public good’.

Read more

Ireland in the Year 2000: Towards a National Strategy

An Foras Forbartha
Book
€ 7.95 

This publication documents a 1983 colloquium concerned with the need for an Irish national strategic plan to provide the physical, economic, and social infrastructure required by the end of the 20th century.

Read more

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.

Read more

Post Industrial

Editor: Miriam Delaney.
Book
€ 0.00 

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.

Read more

UCD Architecture 2008

Editor: Pierre Jolivet.
Book
€ 0.00 

An annual yearbook featuring staff and student work from the UCD School of Architecture.

Read more

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.

Read more

UCD Architecture 2006

Editors: Gary A. Boyd, Hugh Campbell, Pierre Jolivet, Jim Murphy, Elizabeth Shotton.
Book
€ 0.00 

An annual yearbook featuring staff and student work from the UCD School of Architecture.

Read more
Go to library

Support

All journals and books are free to download for members and patrons. Discover more about how you can support Type.

Find out more

Type involves a collective of writers, researchers, and editors with expertise in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and planning.

We’re interested in working with individuals and organisations to gather, format, and disseminate knowledge on the built environment.

Have a potential project in mind? We are always open to new ideas and the possibility for collaboration. Please use the form provided to get in touch.

Thank-you for taking the time to make contact with us.
We will be in touch with you shortly.
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.

Supported by

Updates

Website by Good as Gold.