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Ninety-six years of Tugendhat, as viewed from Dublin

In this piece, the first in Type's new event review series, 'the write-up', Cormac Murray considers the Villa Tugendhat exhibition at the Irish Architectural Archive.

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the write-up

Listening to rivers: restoring reciprocity with waterbodies

In this article – timely, in light of recent flood events – Phoebe Brady and Sarah Doheny argue that integrating environmental resilience with public amenity and treating rivers as living stakeholders, rather than as elements of infrastructure, is essential if we are to ensure the survival of our watercourses and our ecology.

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One Good Idea

The weaving shed

Ailbhe Beatty explores the relationship between craft, culture, and heritage in Irish towns, examining how workshop spaces reveal the story of a place in ways material and immaterial.

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Working Hard / Hardly Working

Blockchain: the other AI revolution

Blockchain can offer a secure, transparent way to record agreements, and therefore holds potential across construction and property sectors, enabling real-time verification, automating payments, and improving data reliability. Yet its adoption in this context remains limited. In this article, Garry Miley discusses the possible impacts and limitations to the technology’s implementation.

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Open Space
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Architectural Survey 1961

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, factory, shop, pub, bar, airport, DAA, Dublin Airport, Convent, secondary school, primary school, social housing, flats, masionette, office,
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2ha: the journal of suburban design #03

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #03 explores the relationship between suburban morphology and public spaces. Three essays observe existing conditions and propose an architectural response. A fourth and final essay describes a real intervention which deals with conceptions of public and private in suburbia.

public space, suburbia, civic space, margins, railway, infrastructure, urban design, architecture, Dún Laoghaire, Booterstown, Williamstown, Blackrock, commons, marginalia, deappendix, a no-place like home
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Carlow Carbon Futures: vol. 1

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

Mill, canal, elderly, ageing, isolating, farm, River Barrow, the Barrow, Bagenalstown House, Co-Op, Greenhouse farm, apartment, CLT, roof garden, student, proposal, thesis, project, IT Carlow, masterplan, densification, urban block, densify, terrace, ModCell, Timber Collective, multi-generational, housing, high density-low rise, housing scheme, glulam, suburban, suburbia, co-habitation, university, housing typologies, wetland, hemp render, commuter town, coarse fishing, fishing, Pembroke Road, Heart of Carlow town, gasification, solar panel, UIC Barcelona, railway bridge, density, haptic, haymarket stone, timber SIP panels, bungalow bliss, garden, village, Braun factory, re-purpose, sprawl, pedestrian, Carlow County Gaol, Barrack Street, River Burren, Carlow Castle, wasteland, water reservoir, replanting, flood plain, studio, makers’ space, Tribute Forest, creche, sport facilities, existing, renovation, climate crisis, traveller, travelling community, Graigcullen, GUTEX, renewable timber, environment, environmentally conscious, allotment, Avondale Drive, cork block, retrofit, family, out-growing, carbon footprint, student housing, St. Fiacc’s Terrace, Carlow County Development plan, Maryborough Street, vertical garden, Carlow Town Park, coal store, café, art supply shop, residential, commercial, Pembroke Quarter, cycle way, modular housing, courtyards, affordable housing, STEM, drawing, render, axonometric, Waterford IT, Technical University, Barrow Way, Sustainable Electrical Engineering, dairy farming, forestry, Carlow 2050, hydropower, Marine Institute Mayo, Clogrennane, Drummin Bog, bogland, post office, public space, aquaponics, market garden, kitchen garden, Shamrock Square, bus, public transport, Tullow, Hackettstown, Castilla y Leon, DIY, concrete, tree house, energy rating, deforestation, oak park, Montessori, cross lamination, circular economy, dementia, beehive, apiary, grassland, conversion, Mill Lane, special school, clean energy, electric city, sawmill, farmland, Lodge Mill, agriculture, carbon neutral, recycling, factory, industrial, street, sewage treatment system, reed beds, derelict, SGD, flooding, Scots Pine, GHG, carbon negative, depopulation, Carlow Industrial Collective, case study, sugar beet, CO2, Bio-Fuel, Fenagh, cycleway
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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.

Riordan Kavanagh O’Reilly, Maoliosa O’Flynn, Comment, RIAI Reports, Diary, Cryptoporticus and Partners, Hardcore, Review, Crisis in the Industry, House of Today, RIAI Conference 1983, Brick in the Irish Context, Kevin Roche, Microcomputer, Theses, Art in Architecture, RIAI Medal for Housing, The decline of the building industry, The first national house of today, Council, Letter to Taoiseach, Annual Dinner, Rates for Wages, Emoluments, and Expenses, RIAI Practice Notice, Public Sector Fees, IABS, Irish Architects’ Benevolent Society, Fireplaces in 8 Merrion Square, The signing of buildings, News from the Schools, Bolton Street, International Prize for Architecture 1983-1984 of the Belgian National Housing Institute, Passive Solar Design, Rooflighting Design Competition, Adrian Smith, John O’Reilly, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, Royal Hibernian Academy, AAI, Architectural Association ireland, decline, recession, unemployment, brick, exhibition,
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RIAI Bulletin 20

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.

Entrance Lodge to Broadstone Park, Comment, RIAI Notes, Diary, RIAI Reports, The Nature of Conservation, Summer Theses, Record, Review, Annual Conference, Industrial Design, The Irish Concrete Society, An Architectural Identity, The Architect As Artist, Urban Growth and Decay in Ireland, Committees, Boards, Juries, New Offices, Caretaker, Education, Planning and Control, Kuffstien Schloss, Eoghan Buckley, Capital of the Age of Enlightenment, Blessington Lake Study, School of Design, Dominic Coyle, Martin Noone, Colman O’Donoghue, A Guide to Modern Architecture in Dublin, Tomas Beirne, Membership, Cork, Committees, Subscription, UIA Congress, Mary Duggan, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, members, thesis, student, Bolton Street, fifth year,
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Architecture Ireland 323

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #323 focuses on the theme of ‘labour’.

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RIAI Bulletin 3

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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RIAI Bulletin 9

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.

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Architecture Ireland 279

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #279 focuses on the theme of ‘healthcare design’.

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RIAI Bulletin 16

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 320

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #320 focuses on the theme of 'education + practice'.

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Architecture Ireland 303

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #303 focuses on the theme of ‘health and wellbeing’.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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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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