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Drafting Identity: In Practice

In this article, Julia Przado continues our mini-series ‘Drafting Identity’ which focuses on the experience of women in Architectural Education from both personal and professional perspectives, supporting the FIAE movement. Julia explores the underrepresentation of women in senior roles within the architectural profession, and the importance of representation, recognition and mentorship.

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Present Tense

Show the system, not just the render

By presenting architecture only through slick final images, we undersell the true complexity and value of the profession, argues Dr Rebecca Jane McConnell.

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One Good Idea

Leaving the door open

Stephen Mulhall reviews the Architectural Association of Ireland's Critic's lecture 'The Architecture of Softness,' delivered by Phineas Harper on April 16th, 2026.

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the write-up

The Quiet Disappearance of the Gaze

Walking through the streets of Dublin and London, Luke Dillon reflects on the evolution of blind windows as an architectural motif and their ambiguous performance as both practical requirement and deliberate compositional tool.

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Working Hard / Hardly Working
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Architecture Ireland 320

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #320 focuses on the theme of 'education + practice'.

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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 6

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, President’s Report, Honorary Treasurer’s Statement, Annual Report of the Council, Presentation of Certificates, Election of Council for 1974, EEC Affairs, EAHY 1975, Selection of consultants, CAA Ottawa Conference, Honorary Secretary’s Report, New Arts Council, UIA Conference 1981, Purchase of Watercolour, UN Economic Commission for Europe, Irish Architecture in Tradition, The Distinctive Nature of Irish Architecture, The Making of an Architect, Comments from a citizen, 1974 Congress, RS Reynolds Memorial Award, RIBA Architecture Awards, Belgian Housing Committee, RIAI Conference, Local Authority, Arts Council, post office, Design Competition, Boland’s Mill, John O’Gorman, Scale of Fees, UN, Economic Commission, Membership, RIAI Annual Conference, Dr. Maurice Craig, Architecture Awards, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committees, AGM, minutes, meeting minutes, exhibition, competition, symposium, materials, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, CAA, Congress, RIBA, E.E.C. Affairs, EAHY 1975, President’s Report, Belgian Housing Competition, Selection of Consultants, CAA Ottawa Conference, RIAI Conference at Kilkenny, Honorary Secretary’s Report: Committees, Cork City Architect’s Post, Architects employed by Local Authorities, Election of President and Hon. Treasurer, ‍New Arts Council, Final Examination, Stage C, UIA Conference 1981, New Office Block, ‍Belgian Housing Competition,Tipperary Competition, Change of Telephone Numbers, Purchase of Watercolour, Scale of Fees, UN Economic Commission for Europe, EEC Affairs, CAA Conference Lost Property, Irish Architecture in Tradition, The Distinctive Nature of Irish Architecture, The Making of an Architect, Comments from a Citizen, Public Library of Damascus, 1974 Congress, R.S. Reynolds Memorial Award, RIBA Architecture Awards, Short Courses ‍
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Architecture Ireland 284

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #284 focuses on the theme of 'housing & place'.

architecture review, building review, housing, urban planning, town planning
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Architectural Survey 1961

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

Church, Hospital, Commerce, Health, Industry, Education, Religion, Housing, Public Service, Recreation, school, extension, factory, shop, pub, bar, airport, DAA, Dublin Airport, Convent, secondary school, primary school, social housing, flats, masionette, office,
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2ha: the journal of suburban design #12

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #12 considers the power of local, national, and international governance in determining suburban morphology. Three essays focus on the multiple means by which bureaucratic structures and political ideologies control the ways, rules, and regulations in which suburban development takes place.

power, suburbia, class, Victorian Dublin, townships, urbanism, town planning, periphery, new towns, Rathmines, Pembroke, Dalkey, Kilmainham, Drumcondra, Clontarf, Kingstown, Dun Laoghaire, Ballymun, Tallaght, Shannon, Adamstown, Clongriffin, Gecekondu, Istanbul, Helsinki, Rhine Valley, Barrie, a real polis is hard to find
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RIAI Bulletin 56

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 271

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #272 focuses on the theme of '21st century learning'.

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Architecture Ireland 324

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #324 focuses on the theme of ‘Galway’.

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Architecture Ireland 291

Editor: Dr Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #291 focuses on the theme 'can architecture save housing?'.

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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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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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New Dimensions in Regional Planning: A Case Study of Ireland

Author: Jeremiah Newman.
Book
€ 7.95 

This book was the first in a series on development planning by An Foras Forbartha, and followed the first conference on regional planning ever to be held in Ireland, in May 1965.

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Observation Study of Housing Estate Elements

Authors: R. Mulvihill, E. Burke, N. Byrne.
Book
€ 7.95 

This paper reports on a study investigating aspects of housing estates related to the pedestrian precinct or residential yard concept.

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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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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.

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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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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.

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