Sign up to our newsletter

Sign up to our newsletter for all the latest new and updates.

Become a member

Membership of Type allows unlimited access to our online library. Join to support new research and writing on the design of the built environment.

You can read more about membership here.

Become a member

Already a member? Login to your account to avail of unlimited downloads.

Type is a platform for design in the built environment. We aim to share knowledge, increase accessibility, and support a culture of critique.

Articles

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

Modernism is Almost All Right #5: James Joyce, Adorno, and the Silicon Docks: Modernism against Technocracy

Felix McNamara considers what James Joyce and Theodor Adorno might teach us about the glib sloganeering and corporate technologism of contemporary property development in the Silicon Docks.

Read
Modernism is Almost All Right

Pivot Points

Máirtín D’Alton reviews Pivot Points, an exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Irish Architectural Archive, 45 Merrion Square.

Read
the write-up

Modernism is Almost All Right #4: Abundance, with Concision and Equality: The Values of Ludwig Hilberseimer’s Rational Modernism

If discussed at all today, Ludwig Hilberseimer's late European and American work is identified as a precursor of contemporary ecological approaches to the city. Scott Colman suggests that his theory of architecture and his approach to design have broader implications – not because Hilberseimer was free of modernist problematics, but because he squarely confronted them.

Read
Modernism is Almost All Right

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.

Read
the write-up
See all articles

Library

The Type online library is a digital repository of publications featuring unique research and fresh insights on the design of the built environment.

All journals and books are free to download for Type members; please login or use the download button for access.

Non-members can purchase items from the library on a one-off basis or become a member of Type to avail of the full benefits of membership.

Architectural Survey 1958

Edited by: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

Office, School, education, primary school, secondary school, Kilmacud, shrine, jesuit, ecclesiastical architecture, church, technical school, house, residential, aer lingus, aviation, shop, pub, bar, grafton street, coffee shop, coffee, factory, zoo, hostel, theatre, Gate Theatre, Meath, Galway, Dublin, Belfast, Antrim, Cork, Waterford, Sligo, Kildare,
Read more

RIAI Bulletin 57

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.

Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, AAI, Architectural Association ireland, practise notice, UCD, University College Dublin, Bolton Street, concrete, materiality, design, detail, specification,
Read more

LINE 01

Editors: Caoimhe Power, Gabriella Brady, Helen McFadden, Lauren Forde.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

Student, TUD, Final year, projects, university, work from home, timber construction, essay, furniture, office, architectural technology, thesis
Read more

Architecture Ireland 321

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #321 focuses on the theme of 'wood'.

environment, conservation, bio, eco materials, environmentally friendly, clt, cross-laminated timber, wood, timber, construction, studio, unviersity, TUD, school, residential, commercial, detail, London, Victoria & Albert, Museum, book, review, Trevor White, David Dickson, Graham Hickey, Merlo Kelly, Kathryn Milligan, Diarmuid Ó Gráda
Read more

Architecture in Ireland - vol. 1, no. 2

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.

The Gold Medal, RIAI Awards, Land Prices, RIBA Directory, Kinsale Architectural Heritage, Is this A Record, Building and Engineering Claims, W. T. Major and A. Ransom, Housebuilding Slowdown, Housing Needs, Assessment, Sam Stephenson, Brian Traynor, Gerry Flynn, Paul Richardson, Brouagh Moriarty, Ove Arup and Partners, J. A. Kenny and Partners, John Sisk and Sons, John Donat Photography, RIAI, P. Twamley, J. McCullough & Partners, J. V. Tierney & Partners, S. Monahan & Partners,
Read more

Architecture Ireland 277

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #277 focuses on topics such as the housing crisis, and celebrating O'Donnell and Tuomey's Royal Gold Medal.

architecture review, book review, irish architecture, housing design
Read more

2ha: the journal of suburban design #11

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #11 considers the idea of architectural failure in the popular perception of suburban worlds.

Read more

RIAI Bulletin 46

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.

Read more

2ha: the journal of suburban design #09

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #09 considers the role of leisure practices in forming the spatial order of suburban landscapes. Four essays detail the social codes, individual desires, and official policies that determine the structure of free time.

Read more

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.

Read more

Architecture Ireland 296

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #296 focuses on the theme 'architecture in practice'.

Read more

Architecture in Ireland - vol. 1, no. 7

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.

Read more

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.

Read more

20 Irish Buildings You Should Know

Editors: Róisín Bean, Tim Connell, Brian Gargan, Paul Kelly, Adam McLoughlin, Jack Prendergast.
Book
€ 0.00 

Twenty twentieth-century Irish buildings that students of architecture should know, as chosen by TU Dublin fourth-year architecture students.

Read more

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.

Read more

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.

Read more

Dublin School of Architecture Yearbook 2018

Editors: Carol Lawlor, Deimante Paplauskaite, Alice George, Paris Brown, Conor Grossman.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

Read more

Mapped: a study of planned Irish villages

Editor: Miriam Delaney.
Book
€ 0.00 

Mapped is the outcome of a Dublin School of Architecture research project interested in the origins and morphology of Irish villages. The book is intended as a guide to planned villages; those distinctly formed by the actions of landlords, religious groups, and entrepreneurs.

Read more
Go to library

Support

All journals and books are free to download for members and patrons. Discover more about how you can support Type.

Find out more

Type involves a collective of writers, researchers, and editors with expertise in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and planning.

We’re interested in working with individuals and organisations to gather, format, and disseminate knowledge on the built environment.

Have a potential project in mind? We are always open to new ideas and the possibility for collaboration. Please use the form provided to get in touch.

Thank-you for taking the time to make contact with us.
We will be in touch with you shortly.
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.

Supported by

Updates

Website by Good as Gold.