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Totems: Selected Essays on Architecture - Book Review

Kevin Donovan reviews Irénée Scalbert's book 'Totems: Selected Essays on Architecture', published by Park Books in 2026.

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Open Space

The kids are alright

Gary Hamilton reviews a lecture by REIR Studio, part of the 'Conversation Club' lecture series presented by the Office of Public Works in partnership with the National Library of Ireland. The lecture was held on Wednesday May 13th in the Joly Theatre of the National Library of Ireland.

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Modernism is Almost All Right Issue #3: Ethel Bailey Furman: A Career in Architecture

Ethel Bailey Furman's commitment to providing fellow African Americans with buildings that expressed Christian faith, economic achievement, and equal political rights in the face of Jim Crow segregation was itself modern, even if it only occasionally generated forms that were obviously so. Equally and obviously modern, argues Kathleen James-Chakraborty, was that an African American woman was designing buildings in and around the former capital of the Confederacy, and in a state which adopted a policy of Massive Resistance to school integration.

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Modernism is Almost All Right

On conversation

An interview with Matthew Blunderfield, host of Scaffold podcast, that touches on architectural media, podcasting, and the value of long-form content in a distracted world.

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Working Hard / Hardly Working
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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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Domestic

Author: Dominic Stevens
Book
€ 5.90 

Domestic is a reflection on the design of domestic spaces by architect Dominic Stevens.

process; colour; handmade; home; image; collective; acupuncture; ordinary; architecture; residential architecture; Berlin; Dublin; rooms; people; memories
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living in town ... conserving the future

Book
€ 7.95 

A pamphlet documenting the papers presented at the National Housing Conference held at Leopardstown, Co. Dublin, in October 1974.

Housing Committee, housing, community development, urban problems, urban issues, London, Glasgow, housing action, deprived, deprived communities, University of Durham, Department of Sociology and Social Administration, social security, EEC, EU, second-hand housing, shared dwelling, US National Commission for Urban Problems, home ownership, psychiatry, UCD, University College Dublin, The Dilemma of the Human Family, A Cycle of Growth and Decline, society, institutionalisation, corporate institution, Bethlehem Foundation, Dublin Diocesan Housing Agency, Housing Department, Dublin Corporation, Catholic Housing Aid Society, Family Housing Association, British Housing Association, housing advice centres, voluntary housing, landlord, tenant, tenure, housing pressure, central heating, voluntary housing movement, Bishop Casey, 1974 Housing Act, Clonliffe, Housing Co-ordinator, Dublin City and County, Dun Laoghaire, Assistant City Manager, Dun Laoghaire Corporation, Planning, redevelopment, historical, Compulsory Purchase, Housing Acts, Public Sworn Inquiry, CPO, public authority, placement, clearance, chairman of the housing committee, demolition, Royal Institute of Architects, Irish Builder and Engineer, Sean O’Casey, Housing grants section, Civil service, Building Societies, Planning Act, Bord Failte, Bord’s Tidy Town Competition, Building Science and Technology, Institute for Industrial Research and Standards, Irish housing, AFF, IIRS, NBA, central heating, National Energy Policy, UCG, NUIG, Sitting, Shape, Orientation, Fabric, Fenestration, Ventilation, Heating Installation, Pentagram, Industrial Designers, International Union of Architects, Congress, British Pavilion, Architecture: City Sense, The Necessary Movement, Arts Council, living in cities, Department of Environment, Shelter Neighbourhood Action Project, SNAP, Master plan, Craigavon, Craigavon Development Commission, Liverpool, General Development Area Proposals, enclave, national building agency, cost implications, design standards, performance standards, Essex Design Guide, Royal Town Planning Institute, AAI, Architectural Association of Ireland, Kildare Archaeological Society, accidental black spot, Ministry of Works, An Taisce, Patrick Shaffrey, Strathclyde, Gillespie Kidd and Coia, RIBA, Functional Order, Order of Significant Movement, Visual Order, Victorian City, Department of Architecture and Civic Design, Greater London Council, LCC, rehabilitation, syndicate discussion, economic and social costs of housing, the health aspects of town living, the problems of redevelopment, the voluntary housing movement in England and Suggestions for its Establishment here, Financial Structure, Grants and Subsidies, the implication of recent development on the design and construction of the individual housing unit, ESB, local authority housing, Ballymun, Dr. Browne, Des McConaghy, housing finance,
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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.

T.P. Kennedy, The contribution of Waterford Ironfounders Ltd to the Irish Housing Drive, Liam McCormick, Dáithí Hanly, Busáras, Hospitals, Sanatorium, Healthcare, Ward, Chapel, Church, School, Primary School, Secondary School, Childcare, Sisters of Charity, Ballyfermot, Rathgar, Ardkeen, Dublin, Cork, Youghal Frankfort, Ballsbridge, Santry, Vocational, Limerick, Stillorgan, Bus depot, Donnybrook, Waterford, Bord na Mona, Dún Laoghaire, Busaras, Blackwood, Co Kildare, Mount Dillon, Roscommon, Lanesborough, Longford, Bracnagh, Offaly, Derraghan, Commerce, Hospitals, Industry, Education, Religion, Dwellings, Sallynoggin, Recreation, Buyers guide, Clogher Road
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Architecture Ireland 287

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #287 focuses on themes of housing, Danish architecture and the Venice Biennale.

architecture review, book review, housing, venice biennale
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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.

Fencing, housing estate, cul-de-sac, local authority, front wall, front garden wall, landscaped boundary, shrub boundary, wooden fence, edge maintenance, private estates, lawn, front lawn, back garden, parked cars, Planning Division, Portlaoise, Tralee,
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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'.

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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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Architectural Survey 1971

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 304

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #304 focuses on the theme of ‘local authority’.

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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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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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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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living in town ... conserving the future

Book
€ 7.95 

A pamphlet documenting the papers presented at the National Housing Conference held at Leopardstown, Co. Dublin, in October 1974.

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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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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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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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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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