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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.

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

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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the write-up

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
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RIAI Bulletin 17

Editor: J. Owen Lewis.
1978
€ 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.

Administration Building, UCD Belfield Campus, The Radio Building, RTE, The International Airport Hotel, The Science Building, University College Galway, Merrion Hall Strand Road, The Institute for Advanced Studies, The Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club, Ronald Tallon’s House, The Paddocks Dalkey, Castlepart Village, Andrezj Wejchert, Robinson Keefe & Devane, RKD, Scott Tallon Walker, STW, Ronald Tallon, Niall Scott, Stephenson Gibney & Associates, Stephenson, Arthur Gibney, Raymond McDonnell, Diamond Redfern and Anderson, Editorial, RIAI Notes, Enforcement of Interim Certificates, Awards, RIAI Personages, Bolton Street School of Architecture, Diary, RIAI Gold Medal, RIAI Medal for Housing, RIAI Council for 1978, Short Courses, Scandinavian Architecture, Europa Nostra Award, Habitation Space Award, British Hospitals Exhibition, Visit of Finnish Architects, Public Lecture, Education, Membership, RIAI Gold Medal, RIAI Medal for Housing, John O’Gorman, Campanile, University College Dublin, University College Galway, Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club, House, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, symposium, materials, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, members, Election, report, review, award, gold medal, medal for housing, university, college, club, airport, hotel.
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RIAI Bulletin 24

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 Reports, Diary, Review, New Standard Measurement of Method, Irish Architects in Tanzania, Conference 1979, Practice notes, President O’Reilly, Hon. Treasurer, October Council Meeting, Building Materials Supply Position, Architectural Association of Ireland, 8 Merrion Square, ARCSOC, Housing in Dublin’s Inner City, Deirdre O’Connor, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, standards
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Architecture in Ireland - vol. 1, no. 8

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.

RIAI Conference, urban housing, national conference, obair, oibre, commission, public works, Office of Public Works, concert hall, gardaí, Kilkenny Castle, restoration, pier, Ballyglass, Mayo, Westport, Ralph Erskine, Burlington, National Housing Conference, Housing in Small Towns, Gerard O’Callaghan, John Sharrat, Photography as Art, Gallery of Photography, Wellington Quay, Camera Ireland, Marcel Marceau, Aran Islands, Architects’ Dinner, Planning tour of India, Earlsfort Terrace, Security Device, Sentimental Journey, Wood Quay, Dublin Corporation, Civic Offices, Museum, Architecture, UCD, Mattie McDermot, Irish Art and Architecture, Peter Harbison, Homan Potterton, Jeanne Sheehy, Supervisor’s Guide to Rehabilitation and Conversion, Earlsfort Terrace, Hatch Street, Leeson Street, Alexandra College, Patrick Wallace, Archaeologist, National Museum, Kevin Spencer
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RIAI Bulletin 16

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.

Farm House Conversion, Refurbishment of Family Cemetery in County Wexford, An Foras Taluntais, Employment register, membership, Conditions of Employment, Scale of Minimum charges, RIAI Pension Fund, RIAI Travelling Scholarship, Peter Doyle, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, symposium, materials, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, members, Election, report, review, education, architectural education, handbook, farm house, conversion, scholarship, pension
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Architectural Survey 1957

Editor: Luan P. Cuffe.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

Directory of Architects, Classified Buyers’ Guide, Index to advertisers, Commerce, Health, Industry, Education, Religion, Housing, Public Service
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RIAI Bulletin 53

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, CIF, Sir Peter Swimmerton-Dyer, Chairman, University Grants Committee, Ted Nealon, TD, Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach, Grand Opera House, Belfast, Robert McKinstry, Melvyn Brown, Tollymore Forest Park, Teahouse, Ian Campbell, Diamond Redfern Anderson, The Watershed Restaurant,
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Architecture Ireland 270

Editor: Sandra
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'.

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Architecture Ireland 302

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland.

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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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Architecture in Ireland - vol. 1, no. 1

Editor: Tomas 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.

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Architecture Ireland 278

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #278 focuses on the theme of ‘a year of architecture - 2015’.

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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.

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Ireland in the Year 2000: Towards a National Strategy

An Foras Forbartha
Book
€ 7.95 

This publication documents a 1983 colloquium concerned with the need for an Irish national strategic plan to provide the physical, economic, and social infrastructure required by the end of the 20th century.

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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.

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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.

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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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Dublin School of Architecture Yearbook 2016

Editors: Philip Duffy, Anne-Lise Olivier, Julia Vivien Rober, Colin Mac Suibhne, Stephen Johnston.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

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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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