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Value judgements

In the latest edition of 'the write-up', Alex Curtis reviews the Architectural Association of Ireland's 'Systems and Selves' lecture, which this year featured Carmody Groarke.

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the write-up

Discrete objects of thought

In assessing how to reuse the built fabric and harness the latent potential of our towns and cities, architects have much to learn from artists about disconnecting object and subject, argues Tom Cookson.

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One Good Idea

Are communes the way forward?

Topics such as housing, income inequality, and the environmental crisis are common topics of concern in 2026. At first, they appear hopelessly unsolvable and, once dug into a little deeper, completely interrelated. In this article, Phoebe Moore explores alternative housing models, and ways forward through communal living.

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Present Tense

For the want of a bike shop, we lose the city

After forty-one years in business, what was probably Dublin’s smallest bike shop: McCormack’s on Dorset Street, pulled down the shutters for the last time. In this article, Róisín Murphy uses the closure as a lens on the wider disappearance of small, long-standing businesses from the city, asking how liveable Dublin can remain if independent traders and venues continue to vanish.

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Future Reference
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RIAI Bulletin 36

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, Cryptoporticus and Partners, Hardcore, President’s Inaugural Address, European Passive Solar Competition, From The Schools, Industrialisation, Review, And now for something completely different, European Architecture Students Assemble, Slide Library, Architects Ball 1982, Structures, Regs illustrated, Council, Conference 1982, Southern Report, Professional Competence Examinations, Western Report, Northern Report, Architectural Review, Francoise Henry, Frixos Joannides, Rolf Loeber, A biographical dictionary of Architects in Ireland 1600-1720, Derryhivenny Castle, Renaissance Year Exhibition, Arbitration Course, Maloney, O’Beirne, Guy + Hutchinson, Locke & Monk, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland,
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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
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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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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.

Martello Mews Ballsbridge, Liberties North-Housing, Holiday Village Trabolgan, Hunt Museum, Tower Hotel Waterford, Riordan Kavanagh O’Reilly, Maoliosa O’Flynn, Diamond Redfern Anderson, Denis Anderson, Delaney MacVeigh & Pike, Jim Barrett, David Crowley, Brady Shipman Martin, Burke-Kennedy Doyle & Partners, Gerry Brouder, Arthur Gibney & Partners, Comment, RIAI Reports, Diary, Cryptoporticus and Partners, Hardcore, Review, Barrier Free Design, A View from the Outside, Landscape, Student Housing, Unemployment, Housing Medal, RIBA Education Conference, Trends for the Future, Interiors, Building Regulations, Review, RIAI Council 1984, Council Ballot Results, President, Honorary Treasurer, Richard P. Hurley, December, January, Annual General Meeting 1983, 8 Merrion Square, National Housing Conference, Annual Conference 1984, New members, Elected Fellows, A View, James Bourke, Special Meeting of Council, Ecclesiastical Cork, Twenty Years of Planning, Berna Grist, Sculpture in Galway, Diplomas for Architects, Kilkenny Interiors, The Housing Centre, ARC opens in Dublin, Applied Research of Cambridge Limited, ICCROM, Noel Moffett, ABS Raffle, Architects’ Benevolent Society, Workshop on Passive Solar Design, UNESCO Competition, RHA, Royal Hibernian Academy, Non-Profit Housing, The Housing Centre, The Housing Research Unit of the school of Architecture, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, Royal Hibernian Academy, AAI, Architectural Association ireland, AGM, UCD, University College Dublin, Bolton Street, College of Technology,
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RIAI Bulletin 1

Editor: Kevin Fox.
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.

The Irish Architects Society, European Economic Society, International Union of Architects, Institute of Architectural & Associated Technology, Board of Architectural Education, Building Industry Committee, Gold Medal Award, RIAI council, HEA Report, Society of Designers, Law Court, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, schools, conservation, building regulation, VAT, public works, committees, AGM, minutes, meeting minutes, Review of the constitution, organisation and finances, sponsorship, committee structure, value added tax, HEA report, EEC, International reciprocity, UIA, Performance of a building contract, the review of an foras forbartha, IAAT, professional indemnity, community schools, council of design, port of dublin, liaison committee, issues raised recently which affect the contract document, mews development, other matters, safety in building construction, padraig murray
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Architecture Ireland 316

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #316 focuses on the theme of ‘value’.

A framework for our architectural future, The pursuit of place value, Demonstrating the value of architecture through post-occupancy evaluation, Ethical values in architecture, A register of shared values - The potential of alternative frameworks in public procurement, Valuing our future, Remembering John Peter Andrews, Truth, flags, and identity - On the intersection between art and architecture, Deliberation and circumstance - An interview with Tara Kennedy on her first five years in practise, The role of remote working for the future, Detail: 5CUBE, The Best Address in Town: Henrietta Street Dublin and Its First Residents 1720-80, Cork’s Modern Architect: The Work of Frank Murphy, Just designs, Thinking across scales - Lateral Office, A shelter for daydreaming, Hammam Hotel and Turkish Baths - James Adam & Sons 1922
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RIAI Bulletin 27

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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Architecture Ireland 311

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #311 focuses on the theme of 'data'.

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RIAI Bulletin 41

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 1967

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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RIAI Bulletin 7

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 282

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #282 focuses on the theme of 'architecture and community'.

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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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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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UCD Architecture 2007

Editors: Brian Ward, Pierre Jolivet, Gerry Hayden.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

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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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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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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.

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