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

Who needs an architect?

In a rapidly-changing building industry, architects’ greatest contribution might not always be the production of buildings, but rather a distinctive type of creative and strategic thinking. This could be equally valuable in many other disciplines. If these soft skills are already taught in architectural education, why should architects confine themselves to traditional practice?

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One Good Idea

Modernism is Almost All Right #8: Landscapes of/for Welfare – Welfare of Landscapes: Environmental Care, Landscape and Education in Post-War Britain.

This essay argues that Brenda Colvin's approach to modernity lay in her ambition to cultivate new ways of living in partnership with nature, by fostering an understanding of ecological interdependence and a sense of responsibility for the environments on which human life depends.

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Tracing Process Knowledge

In this article, Jack O’Hagan and Bodil Eiterstraum travel to Japan to document the demolition and reconstruction of the Ise Jingu Shrine, a cyclical process that preserves traditional construction methods and subverts conventional ideas of authenticity.

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Working Hard / Hardly Working

The mainframe #2: AI and inclusive research

In the second issue of our mini-series 'the mainframe', Annamae Muldowney speaks with Rebecca Joskow, a researcher and practitioner in disability inclusion and assistive technology at the Global Disability Innovation Hub (GDI Hub), a research and practice centre driving disability innovation for a fairer world, based at University College London (UCL). They discuss AI, inclusion and the built environment.

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Future Reference
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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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Architecture Ireland 294

Editors: Dr Sandra O'Connell, Emma Gilleece, Michael K. Hayes
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #294 focuses on the theme of 'conservation + reuse'.

architecture review, book review, conservation, reuse, preservation
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Architecture Ireland 276

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #276 focuses on the theme of 'school design'.

architecture review, school design, book review, urban planning, town planning, sustainable design
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Architecture Ireland 323

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #323 focuses on the theme of ‘labour’.

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RIAI Bulletin 29

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, Letter, Review, RIAI Conference, The Raymond McGrath Memorial Lecture, Luan Cuffe, Obituary, Engagement of Architects for the design of the Catholic Churches in the Archdiocese of Dublin, Architectural Section - Independent Artists’ Annual Exhibition - Municipal Gallery 1980 ‘The Making of a Modern Street’, After Modern: this century in Irish Architecture, Council, Report from Cork, Advisory Document on the Conditions of Employment, Annual Dinner, Building Industry Council, Archdiocese of Dublin, Independent Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Municipal Gallery 1980, The Making of a Modern Street, Gerry Cahill, Housing Research Unit, UCD, Back to the Street, Padraig Murray, Jake Brown, Tradition and Change, Brian Anson, RIAI Conference Wexford, Charlie Donnelly, Theatre Centre Sienna, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland
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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.

Ordinary General Meeting, OGM of the RIAI, EEC, Architectural Heritage Year, President’s Report, Education for Planners for Ireland, Architectural Journalism, Honorary Treasurer’s Statement, General Secretary, RIAI/AAI Combined Prize 1973, Professional Indemnity Insurance, President of Ireland, National Economic and Social Council, Architectural Journalism, Classes of Membership, Pension schemes, professional indemnity insurance, VAT, Competitions, Canvas Furniture Design, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Public Library of Damascus, CAA Conference, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committees, AGM, minutes, meeting minutes, exhibition, competition, symposium, materials, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, AAI, RIAI, office block, library, golfing society, Furniture Design, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Public Library, Damascus, CAA Conference., Matters arising out of the Minutes, E.E.C., Architectural Heritage Year, 1975., President’s Report, Any Other Business, E.E.C. Affairs, Education for Planners for Ireland, Central Testing Station, National Economic and Social Council, Architectural Journalism, E.E.C. Directory, Classes of Membership, General Secretary, European Architectural Heritage Year, RIAI / AAI Combined Prize 1973, Pension Schemes, Professional Indemnity Insurance, New Office Block, Library, Golfing Society, New Committees, V.A.T: Fees, Building Contracts, ‍Canvas Furniture Design, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Public Library of Damascus, ‍AAI Conference, CAA Conference, Short Courses
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2ha: the journal of suburban design #13

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #13 considers the physical, legal, economic, and symbolic borders which bind our everyday definition of suburban life. Three essays outline the contested nature of this space and the multiple means of separation made for the benefit of some, to the exclusion of others.

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2ha: the journal of suburban design #15

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

2ha #15 considers sprawl: how to define and find it, how to evaluate its impacts, and how to respond, as urban designers, to the spatial conditions that sprawl engenders.

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Architectural Survey 1953

Editor: Luan P. Cuffe.
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 292

Editor: Dr. Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

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

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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.

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Architectural Survey 1954

Editor: Luan P. Cuffe.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

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The Dublin Region: Advisory Plan and Final Report (Part II)

Author: Myles Wright
Book
€ 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.‍

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DSA 2020

Editors: Stephen Allen, Mark Chester, Romy Marren, Lasairíona Power.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

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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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Rural

Author: Dominic Stevens.
Book
€ 5.90 

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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Department of Architecture and Town Planning, DIT Bolton Street, 1992-1994

Editors: Edmund O’Shea, Noel Jonathan, James Horan.
Book
€ 0.00 

The first publication by the Department of Architecture and Town Planning at DIT Bolton Street celebrates the work of both staff and students during the academic years 1992/93 and 1993/94.

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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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