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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?
ReadReflecting on her time spent thatching Irish homes, Alice Bowler considers what an endangered craft might teach us about care, materials and building in step with the land.
ReadJonathan F. Bell examines the continuities between pre-Modern industrial architecture, Modern contributions to industrial typologies, and current adaptations of these buildings in a postindustrial landscape.
ReadChloë King reviews ‘Pálás an Phobail’, an immersive event curated by Blanka Major, a collaboration by Architecture at the Edge in partnership with Hinterland. The event was held as part of Culture Night Late in Galway City on 18th September and featured contributions from Professor Anna Davies of Trinity College Dublin and Michael Higgins, Political Liaison and Systems Change Lead at Bohemians cooperatives.
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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.
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.
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.
Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #277 focuses on topics such as the housing crisis, and celebrating O'Donnell and Tuomey's Royal Gold Medal.
2ha #10 considers the impact of capital on the shaping of suburban space. Three essays describe how the architecture, society, and culture of a city can be influenced by the flows of finance.
2ha #05 considers the relationship between language and suburban space. Three essays respond to the fractured process of translation that has come to define the territory of suburbia.
Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #315 focuses on the Ireland House Tokyo architectural design competition.
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Architectural Survey was an annual review of contemporary architecture in Ireland, which ran from 1953-1972.
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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 is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #301 focuses on the theme of ‘Community & Place’.
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Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #298 focuses on the theme of 'adaptive reuse'.
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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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Celebrating Pugin features a selection of drawings by 19th-century architect A. W. N. Pugin, displayed as part of an exhibition in the Irish Architectural Archive marking the bicentenary of his birth. The book also includes an essay by Roderick O'Donnell providing an overview on the role of Pugin in Ireland.
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Financed by Irish Raleigh Ltd., this report is a general study of the efficiency, usage, and safety of the bicycle as a mode transport. As well as bicycle safety, this study considers housing estate layout in suburban areas and how it can minimise the adverse impact of motorised traffic on urban neighbourhoods.
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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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An annual yearbook featuring staff and student work from the UCD School of Architecture.
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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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Organised by an Foras Forbartha, this paper documents the proceedings of a conference on residential road design from Jury’s Hotel in Dublin in May 1976.
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