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In this article, Róisín Hayes starts our new mini-series ‘Drafting Identity’ which focuses on the experience of women in Architectural Education from both personal and professional perspectives, supporting the FIAE movement. Róisín explores the craft and making of architecture, and the emotional intelligence inherent in her work.
ReadIn the latest edition of 'the write-up', Alex Curtis reviews the Architectural Association of Ireland's 'Systems and Selves' lecture, which this year featured Carmody Groarke.
ReadIn assessing how to reuse the built fabric and harness the latent potential of our towns and cities, architects have much to learn from artists about disconnecting object and subject, argues Tom Cookson.
ReadTopics such as housing, income inequality, and the environmental crisis are common topics of concern in 2026. At first, they appear hopelessly unsolvable and, once dug into a little deeper, completely interrelated. In this article, Phoebe Moore explores alternative housing models, and ways forward through communal living.
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Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #296 focuses on the theme 'architecture in practice'.
Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #297 focuses on the theme 'housing innovation'.
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.
Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #308 focuses on the theme of ‘tenure and type’.
2ha #04 explores the relationship between history and suburban development. Three essays respond to the changing processes by which suburbia has been bought, built, and sold.
Architectural Survey was an annual review of contemporary architecture in Ireland, which ran from 1953-1972.
Architectural Survey was an annual review of contemporary architecture in Ireland, which ran from 1953-1972.
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Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #324 focuses on the theme of ‘Galway’.
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Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #321 focuses on the theme of 'wood'.
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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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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 is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #287 focuses on themes of housing, Danish architecture and the Venice Biennale.
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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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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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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.
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This paper reports on a study investigating aspects of housing estates related to the pedestrian precinct or residential yard concept.
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Domestic is a reflection on the design of domestic spaces by architect Dominic Stevens.
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