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Ninety-six years of Tugendhat, as viewed from Dublin

In this piece, the first in Type's new event review series, 'the write-up', Cormac Murray considers the Villa Tugendhat exhibition at the Irish Architectural Archive.

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the write-up

Listening to rivers: restoring reciprocity with waterbodies

In this article – timely, in light of recent flood events – Phoebe Brady and Sarah Doheny argue that integrating environmental resilience with public amenity and treating rivers as living stakeholders, rather than as elements of infrastructure, is essential if we are to ensure the survival of our watercourses and our ecology.

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One Good Idea

The weaving shed

Ailbhe Beatty explores the relationship between craft, culture, and heritage in Irish towns, examining how workshop spaces reveal the story of a place in ways material and immaterial.

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Working Hard / Hardly Working

Blockchain: the other AI revolution

Blockchain can offer a secure, transparent way to record agreements, and therefore holds potential across construction and property sectors, enabling real-time verification, automating payments, and improving data reliability. Yet its adoption in this context remains limited. In this article, Garry Miley discusses the possible impacts and limitations to the technology’s implementation.

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Open Space
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Architecture Ireland 270

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #270 focuses on the theme of 'reuse and adaptation'.

architecture review, conservation architecture, reuse
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UCD Architecture 2006

Editors: Gary A. Boyd, Hugh Campbell, Pierre Jolivet, Jim Murphy, Elizabeth Shotton.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

Architecture student, exhibition, Richview, Architecture, Landscape, Civil Engineering, material, structure, environment, detail, strategy, thesis, organisation, urban space, drawings, collage, photography, cultural concerns, Timothy Brick, Lisa Cassidy, Claire Chawke, Ciaran Conlon, Alexander Crean, John Crowley, Brendan Dalton, Rachel Delargy, Michael Doherty, Leonie Fitzgerald, Denis Forrest, Alessandra Fugazzi, Katy Giblin, David Hannon, Riona Hartman, Carla Harte Hayes, Leah Hogan, Alison Hyland, Rachel Jennings, Elaine Johnson, Fergal Joyce, Sorcha Kenneall, Anthony Lambert, Elspeth Lee, Cillian Magee, Alva Maguire, Brian Massey, Meabh Mc Carthy, Patrick Mc Glade, Laura Moran, Conor Morrissey, Maria Mulcahy, Mark Murphy, Kieran Murray, Matthew Nagle, Banbha Nic Canna, Aisling Ni Dhonnchu, Aedamair Ni Ghallchoir, Donncha O Brien, Maurice O Brien, Samuel O Brien, Luke O Callaghan, Jennifer O Leary, Conor Pendergrast, Patrick Phelan, Orla Phillips, Sarah Prendergast, Patrick Roche, Conor Rochford, Cian Scanlon, Sean Schoales, Enida Skalonjic, Ruth Stewart, Robert Tobin, David Walsh, Su Wang, Tiago Faria, Mary Laheen, Fiona McDonald, Max O’Flaherty, Mark Price, Brian Ward, Caroline Constant, Christopher Cuniffe, Jamie Doyle, Yvonne Farrell, John Feehan, Amanda Gibney, Anna Hanley, John McLaughlin, rural, farmer’s market, midlands, domesticity, Matthew Beattie, Gary A. Boyd, Gerry Cahill, Kevin Donovan, Niamh Hogan, Fiona Hughes, Michael Pike, Simon Walker, Alan Atlee, Carlos Casablancas, Yvonne Farrell, Mike Haslan, Orla Murphy, John Parker, Matthias Reese, John Tuomey, Brian Barber, Gillian Brady, Elizabeth Burns, Blaine Cagney, James Casey, Amelie Conway, Peter Cosgrave, Cait Elliott, Dara Farrell, Sean Finegan, Amy Fitzgerald, Joseph Flood, Padraig Flynn, Paul Flynn, Danielle Fox, Shea Gallagher, Patricia Gavin, Edin Gicevic, Ciara Grace, Aideen Hannon, Eimear Hanratty, John Horrigan, Patrick Hunt, Raphael Keane, Caroline Kennedy, Caroline Kiernan, Dominic Lavelle, James McBennett, Dermot McGlade, Liam McInerney, Claire McMenamin, Padraig McMorrow, Steven McNamara, Sarah Maguire, Beatrice Moran, Eoin Murphy, Niamh Murphy, Enda Naughton, Roisin Ni Bhuadain, Aine Nic an Riogh, Ronan O’Boyle, Colm O’Brien, Iseult O’Clery, Tapologo Odubeng, Lisa O’Kane, Blathmhac O’Muiri, Hugh Queenan, Alison Rea, Cliodhna Rice, Katya Samodurova, Deirdre Spring, Joseph Swan, Martin Tiernan, St. John Walsh, Brendan Ward, James Young, project, social, technical, aesthetic, LUAS Red line, Connolly Station, Tallaght, left-over space, community sports centre, spatial planning, Madrid, thresholds, Roisin Aherne, Jennifer Belton, Timothy Blackwell, Maurice Brooks, Myles Burke, Elizabeth Casey, William Casey, Shuo Chen, Elizabeth Clyne, Anna Cooke, Bokao Ditlhong, James Doran, Melissa Doran, Paul Durcan, Morwenna Gerrard, Alice Gibson, Faela Guiden, Elaine Hanna, Damien Hannigan, Elaine Harris, Timothy Hartnett, David Healy, Jack Hogan, Helen Kelly, Siobhan Kelly, Shane Kennedy, Ronan Kenny, David Ledwith, Joanne Lyons, Aoife Magner, Aisling Maher, Elizabeth Matthews, Anne Mc Getrick, Lynn Mc Mahon, Paul Murray, Emma Murtagh, Elaine Ní Dhonnchadha, Michael Nolan, Therese Nolan, Laura O Brien, Ivan O Connell, Donal O Herlihy, Sorcha O Higgins, Aoife O Kelly, Sean O Neill, Lucy O Reilly, Ekaterina Papkovskaia, Kevin Quinlan, Michael Stack, Timothy Varian, Aisling Walker, Aoife Warren, Brendan Whelan, Patrick White, Julia Barrett, Edith Blennerhassett, Michelle Fagan, Mary Laheen, Alan Mee, Niall McCullough, Michael McGarry, Finola O’Kane Crimmins, Liam Ronayne, Emmett Scanlon, Sarah Sheridan, John Tuomey, Wendy Barrett, Rachael Chidlow, Will Dimond, Eileen Fitzgerald, John-Barry Lowe, Jim Murphy, Ruth O’Herlihy, Sarah Sheridan, Cork, city library, utopian, history, theory, ecology, Ancient Greece, modern architecture, political context, cultural context, house, garden, city, Gary Boyd, Vandra Costello, Loughlin Kealy, John Olley, Finola O’Kane Crimmins, vernacular evolution, climate, comfort, thermal and auditory environments, ventilation, indoor air quality and health, Paul Kenny, Irena Kondratenko, Patxi Hernandez, Daniel Sudhershan, Vivienne Brophy, Tiago Faria, Brian Gallagher, Jeana Gearty, Pierre Long, Andrew Morrison, John Parker, Seoirse MacGraith, Joseph Gannon, Paul Hughes, Michael Murphy, Building Technology, Building Laboratory, mass production, Amanda Gibney, Mark Richardson, structural design, Newtons Laws, equilibrium, limit-state design, eccentric pads, strips, combined bases, rafts and piles, sizing, Chris Boyle, Peter Cody, Philip Comerford, Peter Carroll, Miriam Dunn, Sheila O’Donnell, Ryan Kennihan, Emmett Scanlon, Peter Tansey, Roland Bosbach, Pat Boyle, Gerry Cahill, Hugh Campbell, Michelle Fagan, Dermot Foley, Noel French, Elizabeth Hatz, Mark Hennessey, Paul Kelly, Andrew McLaren, Tom de Paor, John Tuomey, Finbarr Wall, Jerome Breslin, Niamh Burke, Sinead Cahill, Fiona Carroll, Gordon Chrystal, Sinead Collins, Ann Marie Cooke, Maire Costello, Jacinta Curley, Jose de Groot, Opelie Etang Sale, Evis Etelaniemi, Andreas Fah, Matthew Fagan, Graham Fitzpatrick, Alan Flood, Piers Floyd, Brian Flynn, Francois Gleyze, Brian Hagan, Eimear Hassett, Justin Hayes, Gary Hoban, Gary Holt, Mathias Holzer, Sinead Hugh, David Hutter, Deirdre Keeley, Orla Kennedy, Edwina Kinsella, Hilda Markey, Mercedes Martinez, Aoghan Mac Domhnaill, Barry McNaboe, Olivier Mie, Marcus Mulvihill, Trevor Nolan, Mark Noonan, Lucy O’Connor, Ronan O’Connor, Cathal O’Fearghail, Suzy O’Leary, Nicholas O’Shee, Nicola Power, Richard Quirke, Brendan Redmond, Robert Salmon, Tina Schia, Clara Seeballuck, Sandra Sibley, Milosz Stopinski, Paul Van Den Berg, Lily Vechulst, Christopher Whelan, Ruth Wiberg, decentralisation, work, living, OPW, Office of Public Works, Trim, Meath, RIAI Travelling Scholarship, M50 motorway, Sinead Burke, Sarah Carolan, Clodagh Cawley, Louise Clavin, Isabel Cogan, Maria Conroy, Paul Conway, Desmond Cooper, Daniel Costelloe, Lorraine Couglan, Barry Downes, Eoin Egan, Eamon Fitzpatrick, Sinead Gargan, Declan Hackett, Leonie Heskin, Grace Hickey, Christine Kennelly, Danyal Ibrahim, Paul Jeffries, Laura Johnstone, Eamon Keane, Michael Knight, Jane Larmour, William Lavelle, Siobhan McCafferty, Eoin McCarthy, Roisin McDowell, Aoife McTague, Ronan Maguire, Damian Meehan, Michael Mescal, Enda Nolan, Tobias Nystrom, Kate O’Daly, Claire O’Donnell, Susan O’Driscoll, Padraigh O’Flynn, Niall O’Healaithe, Karol O’Mahony, Orla O’Kane, Catherine Opdebeeck, Hala O’Reilly, Óran Ó’Siocháin, Diarmuid Phelan, Justin Power, Vicky Shields, Louise Souter, Anna Stawjewska, Chris Thompson, Kathleen Tierney, Cillian Warfield, Hugh Campbell, Colin Caprani, Peter Cody, Tom de Paor, Michelle Fagan, Tiago Faria, David Leatherbarrow, Donal Lennon, Ciaran McNally, Conor Moloney, Aoibheann Ni Mhearain, Michael Murphy, Finola O’Kane Crimmins, John Parke, Michael Pike, Bob Sheil, Stephen Tierney, Dominic Stevens, Chris Boyle, Miriam Delaney, Feargal Doyle, Brian Gallagher, Roisin Henegan, Mary Laheen, Shelly McNamara, Ken Meehan, Jim Murphy, Shi Fu Peng, Max O’Flaherty, Esmonde O’Briain, John Olley, Mark Price, Anna Ryan, John Tuomey, Simon Walker, Marcus Donaghy, Elizabeth Shotton, Exodus, polemical investigation, 2:1:2, Les Grandes Ateliers, Trangression from Drawing to Making, charette, conversion, Peter Flynn, Emmett Scanlon, Irena Kondratenko, Paul Kelly & Gary Lysaght, FKL Architects, Aidan Madden, Arups Consulting Engineers, Brian O’Brien, Solearth, Conservation Techniques, Advanced Facade Design, Advanced Materials, Heavyweight Structures, Performance Analysis, Dorothy Jones, Paul Arnold, Ed Burke, John Cahill, Mary Clark, Jackie Donnelly, Lisa Edden, Jason Ellis, Dr Aubrey Flegg, David Griffin, Aideen Ireland, Frank Keohane, Donal Lennon, Alistair Lindsay, Charlie Lyons, Daniel McInervey, Paul McMahon, M. McParland, Emily Moore, Rachel Moss, Conor Murphy, Ciaran O Brien, Dr Freddie O Dwyer, Mona O Rourke, Aighleann O Shaughnessy, Sara Pavia, Margaret Quinlan, Noel Riordan, Susan Roundtree, Pat Ruane, Linzi Simpson, David Wall, Hugh Brady, Peter Clinch, Philip Geoghegan, Loughlin Kealy, Alan Mee, Conor Norton, Derry O Connell, Michael Creegan, Douglas Gordon, Seamus Mc Gearailt, John Prosser, Sarah Rock, Aine Ryan,
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House and Home

Editor: Colum O'Riordan.
Book
€ 10.00 

House and Home features over forty original architectural drawings, as well as publications, models and photographs, for residential projects in Ireland. Reflecting the chronological spread of the Irish Architectural Archive’s holdings, the works range from the mid 18th century to the late 20th.

residential, housing, home, domestic, country house, history, architecture, thatched cottages, suburban semi-Ds, one-off bungalows, blocks of flats, Francis Johnston, Charles Geoghegan, Joseph Connolly, Desmond FitzGerald, Donal O’Neill Flanagan, Jack O’Hare, Jacques Gabriel Huquier, Joseph Jarratt, Isaac Ware, Edward Miller, James Gandon, Charles William Bury, John Bowden, William Murray, Lucy Edgeworth, William Vitruvius Morrison, Daniel Robertson, Sandham Symes, Thomas Christopher Antisell, Axel Haig, Alfred Gresham Jones, Charles Ashworth, Robert J. Stirling, Henry Sibthorpe and Son, Ashlin and Coleman, McDonnell and Dixon, William Mitchell and Sons, Ralph Henry Byrne, W. H. Byrne, Michael Scott, Higginbottom and Stafford, Buckley and O'Gorman, Dublin Housing Inquiry, Noel Moffett, Frank Gibney, Hugh Doran, Aoghagan Brioscú, John L. Griffith, National Building Agency, Jack Fitzzimons, Robin Walker, Arthur Gibney, Simon J. Kelly, Raymond MacDonnell
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Architecture Ireland 273

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #274 focuses on the theme of 'architecture and landscape'.

architecture review, book review, landscape design, landscape architecture
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Architecture Ireland 281

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #285 focuses on topics such as the RIAI Annual Awards and commercial architecture.

architecture review, book review, restaurant design, architecture awards
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RIAI Bulletin 28

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.

Comment, RIAI Report, Diary, Review of the Building Industry, Lapse of Planning Permission, Architects in the Local Authority, The Status of Membership, Council Matters reported by the General Secretary, RIAI/RIBA Relations, Hospital Fees, Northern Report, Annual Conference, Output, Employment, Occupational shortages in the Building Industry, Raymond McGrath, Kevin Fox, After Modern, This Century in Irish Architecture, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland
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Architectural Survey 1966

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 313

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

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 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'.

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RIAI Bulletin 45

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 #01

Editor/Author: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #01 explores the potential of mapping in understanding the suburban condition.

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2ha: the journal of suburban design #14

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #14 considers the ways in which public art is made and consumed within the suburbs. Four essays describe divergent approaches to project commissioning and implementation, highlighting the varied contexts and conditions that determine a work's lasting impact.

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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.

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Accuracy and Dimensional Control in Building

Author: Nicholas M. Ryan.
Book
€ 7.95 

This paper explains the nature of dimensional deviation in prefabricated elements and that the development of designs should include a clear approach to accommodate or control deviations when they do occur.

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The Square Kilometre: Naked House Naked City

Editors: Gary A. Boyd, Greg Keeffe, Rebecca Jane McConnell.
Book
€ 0.00 

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.
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.

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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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Carlow Carbon Futures: vol. 1

Editors: Sean Brunswick, Orla McKeever, Sam Carse, Juliette Bosschaert.
Book
€ 0.00 

Fuelled by love, rage, and imagination, this publication displays the wide variety of student work produced as part of a regional vision for a zero-carbon County Carlow by 2050.

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