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

The city as distended time: memory and possibility in the built environment

In this article, Dr Sally J. Faulder, referencing this year's Open House Europe theme of "Future Heritage", considers how we ascribe value to our inherited and inhabited built fabric, and to the built heritage we seek to pass on.

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Open Space

OUTSIDE: IN

‍OUTSIDE: IN opened Richview’s studio doors to the public, showcasing how UCD’s architecture students are responding to today’s environmental, social, and economic challenges. This article explores how the exhibition, grounded in the Building Change initiative, reflects a shift in architectural education connecting academia, industry, and community through design, dialogue, and climate action.

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Open Space

The impact of AI on the basic planning application

Artificial Intelligence is set to transform the planning processes. This article explores how emerging AI tools can streamline approvals, improve consistency, and reshape diverse planning systems, offering both technical potential and social challenges for design and planning practices in Ireland and internationally.

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Open Space

From colonial remnants to community spaces

Ireland’s towns and villages reflect a rich but complex architectural legacy shaped by colonial history, post-independence ambivalence, and modern neglect. This articles argues for a socially engaged approach to heritage – one that embraces ethical remembrance and reclaims built environments as living spaces central to community, identity, and sustainable development.

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Architectural Survey 1953

Editor: Luan P. Cuffe.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

T.P. Kennedy, The contribution of Waterford Ironfounders Ltd to the Irish Housing Drive, Liam McCormick, Dáithí Hanly, Busáras, Hospitals, Sanatorium, Healthcare, Ward, Chapel, Church, School, Primary School, Secondary School, Childcare, Sisters of Charity, Ballyfermot, Rathgar, Ardkeen, Dublin, Cork, Youghal Frankfort, Ballsbridge, Santry, Vocational, Limerick, Stillorgan, Bus depot, Donnybrook, Waterford, Bord na Mona, Dún Laoghaire, Busaras, Blackwood, Co Kildare, Mount Dillon, Roscommon, Lanesborough, Longford, Bracnagh, Offaly, Derraghan, Commerce, Hospitals, Industry, Education, Religion, Dwellings, Sallynoggin, Recreation, Buyers guide, Clogher Road
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Architecture Ireland 320

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #320 focuses on the theme of 'education + practice'.

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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.

Martello Mews Ballsbridge, Liberties North-Housing, Holiday Village Trabolgan, Hunt Museum, Tower Hotel Waterford, Riordan Kavanagh O’Reilly, Maoliosa O’Flynn, Diamond Redfern Anderson, Denis Anderson, Delaney MacVeigh & Pike, Jim Barrett, David Crowley, Brady Shipman Martin, Burke-Kennedy Doyle & Partners, Gerry Brouder, Arthur Gibney & Partners, Comment, RIAI Reports, Diary, Cryptoporticus and Partners, Hardcore, Review, Barrier Free Design, A View from the Outside, Landscape, Student Housing, Unemployment, Housing Medal, RIBA Education Conference, Trends for the Future, Interiors, Building Regulations, Review, RIAI Council 1984, Council Ballot Results, President, Honorary Treasurer, Richard P. Hurley, December, January, Annual General Meeting 1983, 8 Merrion Square, National Housing Conference, Annual Conference 1984, New members, Elected Fellows, A View, James Bourke, Special Meeting of Council, Ecclesiastical Cork, Twenty Years of Planning, Berna Grist, Sculpture in Galway, Diplomas for Architects, Kilkenny Interiors, The Housing Centre, ARC opens in Dublin, Applied Research of Cambridge Limited, ICCROM, Noel Moffett, ABS Raffle, Architects’ Benevolent Society, Workshop on Passive Solar Design, UNESCO Competition, RHA, Royal Hibernian Academy, Non-Profit Housing, The Housing Centre, The Housing Research Unit of the school of Architecture, 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, AGM, UCD, University College Dublin, Bolton Street, College of Technology,
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2ha: the journal of suburban design #12

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #12 considers the power of local, national, and international governance in determining suburban morphology. Three essays focus on the multiple means by which bureaucratic structures and political ideologies control the ways, rules, and regulations in which suburban development takes place.

power, suburbia, class, Victorian Dublin, townships, urbanism, town planning, periphery, new towns, Rathmines, Pembroke, Dalkey, Kilmainham, Drumcondra, Clontarf, Kingstown, Dun Laoghaire, Ballymun, Tallaght, Shannon, Adamstown, Clongriffin, Gecekondu, Istanbul, Helsinki, Rhine Valley, Barrie, a real polis is hard to find
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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.

The Status of Membership, Council Matters reported by the General Secretary, RIAI/RIBA Relations, Hospital Fees, Northern Report, Annual Conference, Output, Employment, Occupational shortages in the Building Industry, Raymond McGrath, Kevin Fox, After Modern, This Century in Irish Architecture, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, Comment, RIAI Report, Diary, Review of the Building Industry, Lapse of Planning Permission, Architects in the Local Authority
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The Sprawling Newspaper

Editors: Michelle Delea, Sarah Mulrooney, Niamh Hurley, Anastasiya Karabanava, Darren O’Connor, Grace Kiernan.
Book
€ 0.00 

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 4

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 292

Editor: Dr. Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #292 focuses on architecture in Co. Cork.

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RIAI Bulletin 58

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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Architectural Survey 1957

Editor: Luan P. Cuffe.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

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Architecture in Ireland - vol. 1, no. 6

Editor: Tomas 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.

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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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Free Market News

Editors: Jeffrey Bolhuis, Jo Anne Butler, Miriam Delaney, Tara Kennedy, Laurence Lord, Orla Murphy.
Book
€ 0.00 

Free Market News is a study of market towns in Ireland, featuring a collection of essays from a broad range of experts on the past, present, and future of these small-scale settlements. The book was published as part of Free Market, the Irish Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia 2018.

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

Author: Myles Wright
Book
€ 7.95 

The second of the two volumes, The Dublin Region: Advisory Plan and Final Report (Part II) 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.‍

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The Hidden Architecture of Things

Editors: Gary A. Boyd, Gregory Keeffe.
Book
€ 0.00 

This 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.

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UTOPIA 7

Editor: Miriam Delaney.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

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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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DSA 2020

Editors: Stephen Allen, Mark Chester, Romy Marren, Lasairíona Power.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

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