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By presenting architecture only through slick final images, we undersell the true complexity and value of the profession, argues Dr Rebecca Jane McConnell.
ReadStephen Mulhall reviews the Architectural Association of Ireland's Critic's lecture 'The Architecture of Softness,' delivered by Phineas Harper on April 16th, 2026.
ReadWalking through the streets of Dublin and London, Luke Dillon reflects on the evolution of blind windows as an architectural motif and their ambiguous performance as both practical requirement and deliberate compositional tool.
ReadWhile acknowledging photography's role in shaping narratives of the “failure” of social housing, Sarah Churchill suggests that lens-based media can also dismantle the myths that may yet threaten working-class housing security in the future.
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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.
Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #296 focuses on the theme 'education + spaces for young people'.
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.
Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #286 focuses on 1916 Centenary commemorations.
Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #310 focuses on the theme of ‘play’.
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.
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 #283 focuses on the theme of 'Strength, Utility and Grace'.
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Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #313 focuses on the theme of 'Limerick'.
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Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #318 focuses on the theme of 'Belfast'.
Read moreArchitecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #296 focuses on the theme 'education + spaces for young people'.
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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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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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A pamphlet documenting the papers presented at the National Housing Conference held at Leopardstown, Co. Dublin, in October 1974.
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An annual yearbook featuring student work from the Dublin School of Architecture, TU Dublin.
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This book was the first in a series on development planning by An Foras Forbartha, and followed the first conference on regional planning ever to be held in Ireland, in May 1965.
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This working paper documents research undertaken to discover residents’ views on their housing environments to identify those elements associated with overall satisfaction and to make such information available to designers and policy makers.
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