Ben Murray reviews ‘Architecture 2026: Home Truths’, the 2026 conference of the Royal Society of Ulster Architects. The conference was held at Queen’s University Belfast on 3 September 2026.
ReadIn this article, Ananya Jain reflects on how different educational and professional environments shaped her sense of belonging through her journey from Delhi to Belfast, and the role mentorship, migration, identity, and belonging has played in her navigation of both architectural education and practice.
ReadIn 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.
ReadNorman 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.
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Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #322 focuses on the theme of ‘density’.

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

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #306 focuses on the theme of 'Waterford'.

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.

2ha #02 explores the relationship between photography and suburban space. Three essays respond to the intimate link between the medium of photography and the spaces we occupy.

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

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 #314 focuses on the theme of 'leisure'.
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Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #293 focuses on the theme of 'designing Ireland's commercial infrastructure'.
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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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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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A pamphlet documenting the papers presented at the National Housing Conference held at Leopardstown, Co. Dublin, in October 1974.
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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.
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This paper documents the proceedings of a colloquy on Ireland in the Year 2000, held in Kilkea Castle in February 1980.
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Rural is a collection of projects and essays on contemporary issues facing rural modes of inhabitations and ways to reimagine their potential future.
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Jointly published by the Housing Resarch Unit at the School of Architecture in University College Dublin and Cement-Roadstone Holdings Ltd., Back to the Street records Dublin inner-city housing at the beginning of the 1980s and proposes a strategy of urban renewal through the provision of housing to deal with city dereliction and decay.
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Twenty twentieth-century Irish buildings that students of architecture should know, as chosen by TU Dublin fourth-year architecture students.
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