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Working with the grain

Paul Maher reviews ‘The Heart of the Matter’ a lecture by Stephen Witherford of Witherford Watson Mann Architects, part of the Architectural Association of Ireland’s ‘Social Inclusivity in Architecture’ lecture series. The lecture was held on 24 September in the Robert Emmet Theatre in the Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin.

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Girls just want to have fun: How can we design public space for teenage girls?

In this article, Sinéad Hickey discusses gender mainstreaming in urban spaces through the lense of teenager and women in sport. Sinéad explores the nature of spaces provided for teenagers, the disparity in provision for genders, and the issues affecting teenage girls use of these public spaces in particular.

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Present Tense

Urban milk

All Dubliners accept that the fair city is inseparable from James Joyce's Ulysses. Yet Joyce's novel is saturated with a hidden ingredient: milk. This industry is an essential part of our national image, but its relationship with the fabric and women of Dublin has been largely forgotten. What if we redrew Joyce’s Dublin through milk?

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One Good Idea

Sleeping giants of straw and reed

Reflecting on her time spent thatching Irish homes, Alice Bowler considers what an endangered craft might teach us about care, materials and building in step with the land.

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Working Hard / Hardly Working
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RIAI Bulletin 10

Editor: Tomas O’Beirne.
1975
€ 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.

Ordinary General Meeting, OGM of the RIAI, President’s Report, Honorary Secretary’s Report, Presentation of Certificates, Inter-alia, Registration of Architects, National Prices Commission, Professional Fees, EEC Affairs, Technicians’ Commission, Annual Report of Council, Honorary Treasurer’s Report, Amendment to By-Laws, Study on Architect’s Fees, Gold Medal Award, Housing Medal Award, RIAI Conference, European Architectural Heritage Year, Use of High Alumina Cement, Efficient Lighting in Industry, Construction Industry Statistics, Building Costs Index, Posts in Honduras, UIA Assembly and Congress, Michael Scott Exhibition, Local Authority Housing, Professional Conduct Committee, Fellowship Election, Building Industry Council, Ideas Competition for Housing, EAHY 1975, Price Variation Clause, Salaried Members’ Committee, Cork City Architect, Housing Fellowship, Entry Regulations, Election of Council, Provincial Members, Architectural Journals, Final Exhibition Stage C, Free Architectural Service, Temporary Entry Regulations, Flow of Work, UIA Council, Offshore Oil and Gas, Scandinavian Summer Seminars, Manila Housing Community, EEC Matters, Building Industry Council, Computer Programming, Client/Design Team Form of Contract, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, AGM, minutes, meeting minutes, exhibition, competition, symposium, materials, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, CAA, members, Election, report, EEC, housing, public relations, Registration, EEC Matters, Reciprocity, Study on Architects’ Fees, Fellowship Election, Gold Medal Award, Housing Medal Award, RIAI Conference, Building Industry Council, Ideas Competition for Housing, EAHY 1975, Price Variation Clause, Salaried Members’ Committee, Cork City Architect, Housing Fellowship, Redundancy Entry Regulations, Award of Distinction, Election to Fellowship, Contract Form, Use of High Alumina Cement, Construction Industry Statistics, Development Plan, Efficient Lighting in Industry, Building Costs Index, Building Industry Council, Computer Programming, Client/Design Team Form of Contract, Courses Attended, RIAI Award for Architectural Conservation, RIAI Dinner Dance, Form of Certificate, Bologna Conference, Michael Scott Exhibition, UIA Assembly and Congress, Local Authority Housing - Time Charge, Posts in Honduras, Annual Report of Council, Honorary Treasurer’s Report, Presentation of Certificates, Amendments to By-Laws, President’s Report, Honorary Secretary 1975-1976, Election of Council for 1975, Other Business, Final Examination, Stage C, Free Architectural Service, Temporary Entry Regulations, Flow of Work, Seat on UIA Council, Dates of Meetings, 1975, Senate Bye-Election, Short Course at the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, York, Offshore Oil and Gas, Planning Lectures, Scandinavian Summer Seminars, Housing Community, Manila, Subscription of Members, Architectural Award, New Booklet, Exhibition of Drawings, Visit to Edinburgh
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2ha: the journal of suburban design #06

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #06 considers the relationship between typology and the architecture of suburbia. Three essays respond to the evolving spatial types that define the suburbs as a coherent condition.

typology, suburbia, semi-detached, terraced, housing, Greece, Dom-ino, Adamstown, low-rise, urban design, architecture, a moveable type
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Architectural Survey 1967

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

Under construction, leisure, clubhouse, health, residential, social housing, showroom, Opera House, church, ecclesiastical, religious, hotel, hospitality, pavilion, factory, estate, sculpture, pitch, apartment, TCD, Trinity College Dublin, pub, bar, renovation, refurbishment, aerial photography, photography
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Architecture Ireland 319

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 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 in Ireland - vol. 1, no. 5

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.

Voluntary Architectural Services, End of an Era, Matthew McDermott, UCD, University College Dublin, Golf Outing, Architects’ and Surveyors’ Golfing Society, RIAI Hon. Secretary, Con Manahan, UCD Building Lab, Eileen Gray Furniture, Foras Chief Resigns, Wall Insulation, RIAI Awards, Industrial History, Aspects of Irish Industrial History 1878 – 1978, Wood Quay, Six Soviet Cities, Moscow, Bukhara, Tashkent, Samarkand, Tbilisi, Lenningrad, Ove Arup & Partners, Varming Mulcahy Reilly Associates, Patterson Kempster & Shortall, John Sisk & Son, Joseph McCullough & Partners, Joseph Clancy, Boyd and Creed, G & T Crampton,
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Architectural Survey 1963

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

Commerce, Health, Industry, Education, Religion, Housing, Public Service, Recreation, Airport, Church, Filling Station, Showroom, Factory, School, offices, post office, government, bank, drive-in, interiors, remodelled, maisonettes, social housing, new town, urbanism, residential, hospitality, bar, mast, infrastructure, rebuilding, automation, Reconstruction, domestic, Lansdowne Road Dublin, Raheny, Dublin, Seymour Hill, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Television Headquarters, Montrose, RTE, Stillorgan, Airport, Cork, Dublin, Airport lounge, Shannon, Clare, Chief Airports’ Architect, Department of Transport and Power, Filling station, garage, Merrion, Textile factory, factory, Bray, brewery, Dunmarry, Wicklow, Car showroom, Motor showroom, Victoria Street, plastics factory, Balbriggan, school, Kilmacud, extension, offices, post office, government, bank, drive-in, interiors, remodelled, maisonettes, social housing, new town, urbanism, cootehill, Cavan, Tralee, Kerry, Holywood, home, house, private house, Drive-in bank, Raheny, Athy, Kildare, Dublin Corporation, Dublin city council, DCC, Wineshop, Bar, pub, Belfast, Television Mast, Kippure Mountain, Foundation Stone
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2ha: the journal of suburban design #16

Editors: Michael K. Hayes, Alan Mee.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #16 considers the edge city: collating existing analysis, offering new methods and insights, as well as proposing alternative visions of future transformation.

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RIAI Bulletin 5

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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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 293

Editor: Dr. Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

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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Architectural Survey 1961

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

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Architecture Ireland 314

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

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

Editors: Tim Connell, Emma Kavanagh, Peter MacClancy, Adam McLoughlin, Michael Sykes.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

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New Dimensions in Regional Planning: A Case Study of Ireland

Author: Jeremiah Newman.
Book
€ 7.95 

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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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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HOLOBIONT VOLUME I : Faniffesto

Editors: Gary A. Boyd, Óran Ó’Síocháin, Tabassum Ahmed, Emma Campbell ,Rebecca Jane McConnell.
Book
€ 0.00 

A speculative architectural manifesto reimagining the post-coal South Wales Valleys through ecology, mobility, identity, and regenerative design towards a socially equitable, post-carbon future.

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UCD Architecture 2008

Editor: Pierre Jolivet.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

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The Antique Pavement

Author: Derry O'Connell.
Book
€ 4.75 

An illustrated guide to Dublin's street furniture.

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