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Liza Goncharenko reviews Seanchaí, the 46th Annual European Architecture Students’ Assembly, held in Waterford from 26 July to 9 August 2026.

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Modernism is Almost All Right #5: James Joyce, Adorno, and the Silicon Docks: Modernism against Technocracy

Felix McNamara considers what James Joyce and Theodor Adorno might teach us about the glib sloganeering and corporate technologism of contemporary property development in the Silicon Docks.

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Pivot Points

Máirtín D’Alton reviews Pivot Points, an exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Irish Architectural Archive, 45 Merrion Square.

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Modernism is Almost All Right #4: Abundance, with Concision and Equality: The Values of Ludwig Hilberseimer’s Rational Modernism

If discussed at all today, Ludwig Hilberseimer's late European and American work is identified as a precursor of contemporary ecological approaches to the city. Scott Colman suggests that his theory of architecture and his approach to design have broader implications – not because Hilberseimer was free of modernist problematics, but because he squarely confronted them.

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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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Thirty-Three Churches

Authors: Sophie Kelliher, David Lawless.
Book
€ 0.00 

Thirty-Three Churches explores the potential of altering Dublin’s existing stock of church buildings to include housing, while still functioning as a place of worship. Published as part of the Housing Unlocked exhibition in 2022.

churches, housing, adaptive reuse, parish, diocese, Gothic Revival, J.J. McCarthy, Leo Broe, policy, density, inclusion, alternative model, apartments, inclusion, conservation, dual use, Michael Murphy, Seán Casey, Finglas west, Our Lady of Annunciation, Father Paul Hynes
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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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RIAI Bulletin 10

Editor: Tomas O’Beirne.
1975
€ 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 Secretary’s Report, Presentation of Certificates, Inter-alia, Registration of Architects, National Prices Commission, Professional Fees, EEC Affairs, Technicians’ Commission, Annual Report of Council, Honorary Treasurer’s Report, Amendment to By-Laws, Study on Architect’s Fees, Gold Medal Award, Housing Medal Award, RIAI Conference, European Architectural Heritage Year, Use of High Alumina Cement, Efficient Lighting in Industry, Construction Industry Statistics, Building Costs Index, Posts in Honduras, UIA Assembly and Congress, Michael Scott Exhibition, Local Authority Housing, Professional Conduct Committee, Fellowship Election, Building Industry Council, Ideas Competition for Housing, EAHY 1975, Price Variation Clause, Salaried Members’ Committee, Cork City Architect, Housing Fellowship, Entry Regulations, Election of Council, Provincial Members, Architectural Journals, Final Exhibition Stage C, Free Architectural Service, Temporary Entry Regulations, Flow of Work, UIA Council, Offshore Oil and Gas, Scandinavian Summer Seminars, Manila Housing Community, EEC Matters, Building Industry Council, Computer Programming, Client/Design Team Form of Contract, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, AGM, minutes, meeting minutes, exhibition, competition, symposium, materials, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, CAA, members, Election, report, EEC, housing, public relations, Registration, EEC Matters, Reciprocity, Study on Architects’ Fees, Fellowship Election, Gold Medal Award, Housing Medal Award, RIAI Conference, Building Industry Council, Ideas Competition for Housing, EAHY 1975, Price Variation Clause, Salaried Members’ Committee, Cork City Architect, Housing Fellowship, Redundancy Entry Regulations, Award of Distinction, Election to Fellowship, Contract Form, Use of High Alumina Cement, Construction Industry Statistics, Development Plan, Efficient Lighting in Industry, Building Costs Index, Building Industry Council, Computer Programming, Client/Design Team Form of Contract, Courses Attended, RIAI Award for Architectural Conservation, RIAI Dinner Dance, Form of Certificate, Bologna Conference, Michael Scott Exhibition, UIA Assembly and Congress, Local Authority Housing - Time Charge, Posts in Honduras, Annual Report of Council, Honorary Treasurer’s Report, Presentation of Certificates, Amendments to By-Laws, President’s Report, Honorary Secretary 1975-1976, Election of Council for 1975, Other Business, Final Examination, Stage C, Free Architectural Service, Temporary Entry Regulations, Flow of Work, Seat on UIA Council, Dates of Meetings, 1975, Senate Bye-Election, Short Course at the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, York, Offshore Oil and Gas, Planning Lectures, Scandinavian Summer Seminars, Housing Community, Manila, Subscription of Members, Architectural Award, New Booklet, Exhibition of Drawings, Visit to Edinburgh
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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’.

Appropriate colours, ‘A house that is completely white looks like a cream jug’ - Le Corbusier’s colour scheme at Maison La Roche-Jeanneret (1923-25), A kaleidoscopic architecture, Close reading through colour, Urban colour gestalt and chromatic entropy, Achieving quality through smart procurement - An interview with RIAI CEO Kathryn Meghen, Rethinking the crit - A new pedagogy in architectural education, Professional indemnity insurance, RIAI Architecture Awards 2019, RIAI Silver Medal for Housing, RIAI and OPW design competition for a commemorative bridge at the Irish War Memorial Gardens, Ballyless is not Ballymore - A review of the RIAI and DHPLG National Housing Conference 2019, City as sponge - De Urbanisten, Architectural behaviorology, Venice to Cork and back - Close Encounter: Meetings with Remarkable Buildings, Mallow Union Workhouse, George Wilkinson, 1839, Atelier Bow-Wow, De Urbanisten
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2ha: the journal of suburban design #15

Editors: Michael K. Hayes, Alan Mee.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #15 considers sprawl: how to define and find it, how to evaluate its impacts, and how to respond, as urban designers, to the spatial conditions that sprawl engenders.

Switzerland, Kosovo, Leopardstown Shopping Centre, Ballyogan, Naas Road Framework, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, suburbia, sprawl, urban design, UCD studio, suburbanisation, density, morphological districts, calculating sprawl, Parallel Sprawl, Ballyopen, Daisy-Chain Urbanism, Dissolving Differences, Creating Connections, Collective Identity and Suburban Social Networks
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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’.

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2ha: the journal of suburban design #11

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #11 considers the idea of architectural failure in the popular perception of suburban worlds.

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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'.

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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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Architectural Survey 1954

Editor: Luan P. Cuffe.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

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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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Mapped: a study of planned Irish villages

Editor: Miriam Delaney.
Book
€ 0.00 

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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Carlow Carbon Futures: vol. 1

Editors: Sean Brunswick, Orla McKeever, Sam Carse, Juliette Bosschaert.
Book
€ 0.00 

Fuelled by love, rage, and imagination, this publication displays the wide variety of student work produced as part of a regional vision for a zero-carbon County Carlow by 2050.

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UCD Architecture 2008

Editor: Pierre Jolivet.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

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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 Sprawling Newspaper

Editors: Michelle Delea, Sarah Mulrooney, Niamh Hurley, Anastasiya Karabanava, Darren O’Connor, Grace Kiernan.
Book
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The Sprawling Newspaper emerged during the production of The Sprawling Octopus of an Elevated Highway, a documentary film which centres around a public campaign against the B.K.S. traffic plan for Cork in 1968.

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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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