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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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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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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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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'.

architecture review, book review, landscape design, landscape architecture
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Architecture Ireland 317

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #317 focuses on the theme of ‘housing as a public good’.

Designing for the public good - embedding spatial thinking in the development process, Housing as a public asset - Valuing our social housing stock, Housing as a social good - A strategy for ending homelessness, Housing First is clear in what it requires; how does architecture help deliver? Housing as a human right - Designing for diversity, Planning for the collective good - Castle Rackrent 2.0, Remembering John Meagher, Remembering Paddy Cahill, Designing together in COVID times, Construction contracts and dispute resolution news, Ireland’s Collaborative Town Centre Health Check (CTCHC) Programme - Putting Town Centres First, Working by design - An introduction to collective bargaining, Opportunity and preparedness - An interview with Gerry Cahill on his first five years in practise, Dublin by Design: Architecture and the City, Architecture Is a Social Act, Reinventing housing, Pilgrimage church in Neviges by Gottfried Bohm - A narrative to building, I saw a vision, Design for a labourers’ cottage, Cashel Rural District Council, Co.Tipperary, Joseph Connolly
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Architecture Ireland 274

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 'innovation in education'.

architecture review, book review, urban planning, education design, campus design
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Architecture in Ireland - vol. 1, no. 5

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.

Voluntary Architectural Services, End of an Era, Matthew McDermott, UCD, University College Dublin, Golf Outing, Architects’ and Surveyors’ Golfing Society, RIAI Hon. Secretary, Con Manahan, UCD Building Lab, Eileen Gray Furniture, Foras Chief Resigns, Wall Insulation, RIAI Awards, Industrial History, Aspects of Irish Industrial History 1878 – 1978, Wood Quay, Six Soviet Cities, Moscow, Bukhara, Tashkent, Samarkand, Tbilisi, Lenningrad, Ove Arup & Partners, Varming Mulcahy Reilly Associates, Patterson Kempster & Shortall, John Sisk & Son, Joseph McCullough & Partners, Joseph Clancy, Boyd and Creed, G & T Crampton,
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RIAI Bulletin 49

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 305

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #305 focuses on the theme of ‘colour’.

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Architecture Ireland 275

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #275 focuses on topics such as Irish modernism and contemporary Irish design.

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RIAI Bulletin 44

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 1969

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. 6

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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Post Industrial

Editor: Miriam Delaney.
Book
€ 0.00 

Post Industrial features a series of essays discussing the physical and material world of Irish industrial settlements; how these villages as worked a social spaces, while at the same time highlighting future conservation priorities.

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streets for living: a conference on residential road design

Editor: Eoghan Brangan.
Book
€ 7.95 

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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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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Celebrating Pugin

Editor: Colum O'Riordan. Author: Roderick O'Donnell.
Book
€ 10.00 

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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Ireland in the Year 2000

Book
€ 7.95 

This paper documents the proceedings of a colloquy on Ireland in the Year 2000, held in Kilkea Castle in February 1980.

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The Hidden Architecture of Things

Editors: Gary A. Boyd, Gregory Keeffe.
Book
€ 0.00 

This book investigates the global architecture of commodities. It does so by examining the spaces of production and transportation of seven specific items, chosen for their ubiquity within everyday life. In doing so, we not only realise how a washing machine can relate to a banana, but also how, as architects, we might begin to design alternatives.

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