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The city as distended time: memory and possibility in the built environment

In this article, Dr Sally J. Faulder, referencing this year's Open House Europe theme of "Future Heritage", considers how we ascribe value to our inherited and inhabited built fabric, and to the built heritage we seek to pass on.

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OUTSIDE: IN

‍OUTSIDE: IN opened Richview’s studio doors to the public, showcasing how UCD’s architecture students are responding to today’s environmental, social, and economic challenges. This article explores how the exhibition, grounded in the Building Change initiative, reflects a shift in architectural education connecting academia, industry, and community through design, dialogue, and climate action.

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Open Space

The impact of AI on the basic planning application

Artificial Intelligence is set to transform the planning processes. This article explores how emerging AI tools can streamline approvals, improve consistency, and reshape diverse planning systems, offering both technical potential and social challenges for design and planning practices in Ireland and internationally.

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Open Space

From colonial remnants to community spaces

Ireland’s towns and villages reflect a rich but complex architectural legacy shaped by colonial history, post-independence ambivalence, and modern neglect. This articles argues for a socially engaged approach to heritage – one that embraces ethical remembrance and reclaims built environments as living spaces central to community, identity, and sustainable development.

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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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Architectural Survey 1965

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, political, embassy, chancellery, Bank, offices, hotel, Louis LeBrocquy, Patrick McElroy, Desmond Kinney, mural, tapestry, art, pub, social housing, flats, private house, residential, factory, stained glass, oisin Kelly, Royal Hospital, Belfast, Church, Sion Mills, Tyrone, Murlough, Donegal, Cooleragh, Tec, School, extension, secondary school, Leix, Clogher Road, Harold’s Cross, Crumlin, carlow, offices, insurance, Dame Street, US Embassy, embassy, Ballsbridge, grand parade, airline, aviation, Westmoreland Street, Newforge Lane, Bank, Suffolk Street, Shaftesbury Square, hotel, Tivoli, Cork, Louis LeBrocquy, Patrick McElroy, Desmond Kinney, Bronze Mural, Decoration, Carrickmacross, Concrete Mural, Mural, Belfast, Hotel Extension, Anglesea Street, Municipal Housing, Bridgefoot Street, social housing, flats, Housing scheme, estate, Ennis Road, Limerick, Private House, housing, Clondalkin, Baltimore, Annadale Road, Factory, Baldonnel, Factory, Inchicore, Shelter, Moran Park, Dun Laoghaire, DLR, People’s Park, Municipal Baths, baths, sea bathing, Bray, Wicklow, Public House, Ormeau Road, pub, bar, frieze, Patrick McIlroy, Patrick Pollen, Werner Schurmann,
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RIAI Bulletin 55

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, Derek Tynan, David Kelly, Quilligan, Twamley, Sheila O’Donnell, Moloney O’Berine, Guy-Hutchinson Locke, James Horan and Anne Harper, Ballynahinch, Robinson McIlwaine, Glenarm Housing, Northern Ireland Housing Executive, Northern Bank, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Ferguson and McIlveen, New School of Architecture Building, Queens,
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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.

open to all; beginners welcome; Arts Council; Kevin Kieran Award; leisure; living; landscape; Ireland; mobile cinema; farming; husbandry; food; vernacular; architecture; mimetic house; Leitrim; hide-and-seek house; hedgerow house; fluidcity; building community; Walter Segal
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Architectural Survey 1958

Edited by: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

Office, School, education, primary school, secondary school, Kilmacud, shrine, jesuit, ecclesiastical architecture, church, technical school, house, residential, aer lingus, aviation, shop, pub, bar, grafton street, coffee shop, coffee, factory, zoo, hostel, theatre, Gate Theatre, Meath, Galway, Dublin, Belfast, Antrim, Cork, Waterford, Sligo, Kildare,
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RIAI Bulletin 48

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.

Council, Annual Conference, Building Exhibition, Extraordinary General Meeting, Southern Report, Northern Report, Western Report, Flat Roof Problems, George’s Quay Development, Primary School Building Projects - Conditions for Brief for all Consultants, Debate, New House Loans: Building Society Regulations, Scandinavian Modern Design 1880-1980, Michael de Courcy - An Appreciation, competition, UNESCO competition, News from the Schools, Dublin-Bogota Student Exchange, Controlling House Construction Costs, Michael de Courcy, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, AAI, Architectural Association ireland, George’s Quay, Flat roof, EGM, practise notice, UCD, University College Dublin, Bolton Street, student exchange, UNESCO, The Full Circle, Public Relations and the RIAI, Marketing of Professional Services, Battlements and Castle Air, Community Architecture, Architecture and Environment, Cork and Ross Church Competition, My Consulting Engineer and I, Hardcore, Architects Architecture and Environmental Management in Ireland,
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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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2ha: the journal of suburban design #06

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #06 considers the relationship between typology and the architecture of suburbia. Three essays respond to the evolving spatial types that define the suburbs as a coherent condition.

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RIAI Bulletin 35

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 290

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #290 focuses on topics such as architectural fees, the UTEC University in Lima and the RIAI Annual Conference.

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Architecture Ireland 292

Editor: Dr. Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #292 focuses on architecture in Co. Cork.

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Architecture Ireland 313

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #313 focuses on the theme of 'Limerick'.

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The Relative Importance of Elements of Low Rise Housing Environments

Author: Ray Mulvihill.
Book
€ 7.95 

This working paper documents research undertaken to discover residents’ views on their housing environments to identify those elements associated with overall satisfaction and to make such information available to designers and policy makers.

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UCD Architecture 2007

Editors: Brian Ward, Pierre Jolivet, Gerry Hayden.
Book
€ 0.00 

An annual yearbook featuring staff and student work from the UCD School of Architecture.

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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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Office Location and Regional Development: Proceedings of a Conference

Authors: Dr. D. F. Moore, Michael B. Lawless, Michael J. Bannon, John Goddard, Bertil Thorngren, Jan Toby, George Yannopoulos.
Book
€ 7.95 

This publication documents a two-day conference from 1973 discussing office location and regional development. Topics include reviewing the existing pattern of office location, considering future policies, and referencing international practice.

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Dublin School of Architecture Yearbook 2018

Editors: Carol Lawlor, Deimante Paplauskaite, Alice George, Paris Brown, Conor Grossman.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

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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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