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While acknowledging photography's role in shaping narratives of the “failure” of social housing, Sarah Churchill suggests that lens-based media can also dismantle the myths that may yet threaten working-class housing security in the future.
ReadThe design of our cities stems from long-standing patriarchal power systems that govern urban development, influence financial allocation, compound social inequality, and subjugate women. These inequalities are further amplified at nighttime. Within a patriarchal planning system, how can we design safe, inclusive and accessible urban spaces which remain agile to the demands of all genders?
ReadIn this article, Kate Crowley 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. Kate discusses ‘crit culture’ in architectural education and the impact that dynamic has on women, in particular.
ReadIsabel Hamilton reviews Francis Matthews’ recent exhibit, EXT/INT, at the Molesworth Gallery, Dublin.
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An annual yearbook featuring student work from the Dublin School of Architecture, TU Dublin.
2ha #07 considers the impact of cinema - as both medium and architecture - on shaping the suburban condition. Three essays respond to the temporal and physical spaces afforded by the motion picture.
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.
Twenty twentieth-century Irish buildings that students of architecture should know, as chosen by TU Dublin fourth-year architecture students.
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.
Architectural Survey was an annual review of contemporary architecture in Ireland, which ran from 1953-1972.
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Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #299 focuses on architecture in the West of Ireland.
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Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #272 focuses on the theme of '21st century learning'.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Carried out by An Foras Forbartha, this study was conducted to develop linkages between local, regional, and national planning in Ireland.
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This paper reports on a study investigating aspects of housing estates related to the pedestrian precinct or residential yard concept.
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The second of the two volumes, The Dublin Region: Advisory Plan and Final Report (Part II) examines the social, economic and physical resources of county Dublin and its environs with a view to guide the use of land and public and private building works for the following thirty years.
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