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Absolute Wasters / Outside In

Peter O’Grady reviews 'Absolute Wasters', a panel discussion between Tanad Aaron, Ciarán Cuffe, Jane Larmour, Ste Murray and Orla O’Kane. The discussion was chaired by Professor Hugh Campbell and organised by UCD student curators. The event was held on Friday May 22nd as part of the opening night of 'Outside In', the UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy’s annual end-of-year exhibition.

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Is creativity what makes us human?

Creativity has long been the human capacity we considered beyond the reach of any machine. Most can agree that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has crossed the threshold of being on the periphery to our work and is now embedding itself into our thinking, our workflows, and our society. As these shifts begin influencing the creative industries, we have to ask: what truly changes, and is creativity still what makes us human?

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Future Reference

Drafting Identity: My job is not my hobby

In this article, Ciara O’Connell closes our mini-series ‘Drafting Identity’ which focuses on the experience of women in Architectural Education from both personal and professional perspectives, supporting the FIAE movement. Ciara explores the pressures a career in architecture places on life outside of work, and the significant material impacts that places on women, in particular.

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Present Tense

Totems: Selected Essays on Architecture - Book Review

Kevin Donovan reviews Irénée Scalbert's book 'Totems: Selected Essays on Architecture', published by Park Books in 2026.

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Open Space
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2ha: the journal of suburban design #10

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
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€ 4.00 

2ha #10 considers the impact of capital on the shaping of suburban space. Three essays describe how the architecture, society, and culture of a city can be influenced by the flows of finance.

capital, suburbia, money, finance, transactional urbanism, consumerism, social infrastructure, developers, REITs, IKEA, socio-spatial segregation, townships, suburban speculation, Maastricht, Cherrywood, Phnom Penh, Den Haag, Clontarf, Rathgar, Victorian Dublin, a cost for living
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Architecture Ireland 312

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
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€ 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'.

Shane Cotter, James Casey, Liam McInerney, St John Walsh, Damien Curry, Stephen Mulhall, Thomas O’Brien, Ryan Kennihan, GKMP Architects, St Senan's Hospital, RIAI design competition: Bishop Lucey Park; You look forward to having that opportunity to build something, but for me, it opened a lot of questions about the kind of architecture I wanted to make; Coronavirus, construction disputes, and the Act; Aligning an architectural curriculum to the future; Urban elegance or architectural rubbish? Changing perceptions of the Georgian Dublin town house; Irish Housing Design 1950-1980: Out of the Ordinary; All that a space cannot live without; Perspective sketch of Callan Park War Memorial, Raymond McGrath, 1925
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The Dublin Region: Advisory Plan and Final Report (Part II)

Author: Myles Wright
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€ 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.‍

Occupation, employment, economic growth, future population, the mountains, housing need, forecast, prediction, overcrowding, unfit, port development, dublin city, dublin county, roads, road improvement, transport need, rail network, metropolitan dublin, dodder, tolka, liffey, population growth
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Architecture Ireland 319

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
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€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #319 focuses on the theme of 'public space'.

urban planning, urbanism, shared space, public space, Cork, coronavirus, covid, place making, student accommodation, school, residential, urban, civic, school, education, Valerie Mulvin, Niall McCullough, Architectural Graduate, book review
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Architecture Ireland 303

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
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€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #303 focuses on the theme of ‘health and wellbeing’.

An architecture of health, ‘helping Ireland to help Herself’: A Therapeutic Place at Peamount Sanatorium (1912-1940), The Ethics of Healthcare Architecture, Rethinking Mental Health in Architecture, Cure, Care, and Containment, Universal Design and Wellbeing, Working Together to Design Healthier Communities, Architecture News, RIAI news, Interview with Odile Decq, Product News, Turning the page, Regarding the IAF, Summary Review of BS 8300:2018, Central Park, Blackrock, Novation of Contracts in Construction, On Inis Oírr, Book review: Project Interrupted, The San Siro, Melbourne x5, Obituary - Mary Carroll, Pamela Johnson, Nightingale Housing, RMIT Design Hub, MPavilion, KeepCup, Escher x Nendo
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Architectural Survey 1969

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

Church, Hospital, Commerce, Health, Industry, Education, Religion, Housing, Public Service, Recreation, school, extension, factory, nursing home, bank, RTE, restaurant, Montrose, brutalism, modern architecture, offices, Planetarium, Armagh, Branch Bank, bank, Ballybrack, Chapel, church, Gonzaga College, secondary school, Ranelagh, Horseleap, Westmeath, Nurses’ home, Drogheda, Louth, Apartments, Sussex Road, Rowan House, Mews, Pembroke Lane, County Hall, Cork, Castlefreke Hotel, Knitwear Factory, factory, Monasterevin, Lansdowne House, Ballsbridge, Vocational School, Ballyfermot, Offices, workshop, Institute for Industrial Research, IIRS, Ballymun, Donnycarney, Coolock, Foras Taluntais, Laboratory, lab, Fermoy, Wilton Terrace, Fitzwilton House
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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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Architecture in Ireland - vol. 1, no. 8

Editor: Tomás 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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Architecture Ireland 298

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
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Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #298 focuses on the theme of 'adaptive reuse'.

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RIAI Bulletin 24

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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2ha: the journal of suburban design #04

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
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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.

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RIAI Bulletin 50

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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The Square Kilometre: Naked House Naked City

Editors: Gary A. Boyd, Greg Keeffe, Rebecca Jane McConnell.
Book
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This publication seeks to explore some of the hidden architectures that influence and condition life in the city on a daily basis, beginning within the servicing of the house and expanding over a square kilometre of city fabric.

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Free Market News

Editors: Jeffrey Bolhuis, Jo Anne Butler, Miriam Delaney, Tara Kennedy, Laurence Lord, Orla Murphy.
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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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UTOPIA 7

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

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Office Location and Regional Development: Proceedings of a Conference

Authors: Dr. D. F. Moore, Michael B. Lawless, Michael J. Bannon, John Goddard, Bertil Thorngren, Jan Toby, George Yannopoulos.
Book
€ 7.95 

This publication documents a two-day conference from 1973 discussing office location and regional development. Topics include reviewing the existing pattern of office location, considering future policies, and referencing international practice.

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UCD Architecture 2007

Editors: Brian Ward, Pierre Jolivet, Gerry Hayden.
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An annual yearbook featuring staff and student work from the UCD School of Architecture.

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This is Content. This is Theory. This is Craft.

Editors: Tim Connell, Emma Kavanagh, Peter MacClancy, Adam McLoughlin, Michael Sykes.
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An annual yearbook featuring student work from the Dublin School of Architecture, TU Dublin.

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