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In the second issue of our mini-series 'the mainframe', Annamae Muldowney speaks with Rebecca Joskow, a researcher and practitioner in disability inclusion and assistive technology at the Global Disability Innovation Hub (GDI Hub), a research and practice centre driving disability innovation for a fairer world, based at University College London (UCL). They discuss AI, inclusion and the built environment.
ReadPaul Maher reviews ‘The Heart of the Matter’ a lecture by Stephen Witherford of Witherford Watson Mann Architects, part of the Architectural Association of Ireland’s ‘Social Inclusivity in Architecture’ lecture series. The lecture was held on 24 September in the Robert Emmet Theatre in the Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin.
ReadIn this article, Sinéad Hickey discusses gender mainstreaming in urban spaces through the lense of teenager and women in sport. Sinéad explores the nature of spaces provided for teenagers, the disparity in provision for genders, and the issues affecting teenage girls use of these public spaces in particular.
ReadAll Dubliners accept that the fair city is inseparable from James Joyce's Ulysses. Yet Joyce's novel is saturated with a hidden ingredient: milk. This industry is an essential part of our national image, but its relationship with the fabric and women of Dublin has been largely forgotten. What if we redrew Joyce’s Dublin through milk?
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Architectural Survey was an annual review of contemporary architecture in Ireland, which ran from 1953-1972.
2ha #05 considers the relationship between language and suburban space. Three essays respond to the fractured process of translation that has come to define the territory of suburbia.
2ha #09 considers the role of leisure practices in forming the spatial order of suburban landscapes. Four essays detail the social codes, individual desires, and official policies that determine the structure of free time.
2ha #13 considers the physical, legal, economic, and symbolic borders which bind our everyday definition of suburban life. Three essays outline the contested nature of this space and the multiple means of separation made for the benefit of some, to the exclusion of others.
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.
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.
Architectural Survey was an annual review of contemporary architecture in Ireland, which ran from 1953-1972.
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Architectural Survey was an annual review of contemporary architecture in Ireland, which ran from 1953-1972.
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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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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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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 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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An annual yearbook featuring student work from the Dublin School of Architecture, TU Dublin.
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The first publication by the Department of Architecture and Town Planning at DIT Bolton Street celebrates the work of both staff and students during the academic years 1992/93 and 1993/94.
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An annual yearbook featuring staff and student work from the UCD School of Architecture.
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An annual yearbook featuring student work from the Dublin School of Architecture, TU Dublin.
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Featuring projects from 1953 to 1977, this book lays out 109 examples of modern architecture in Dublin, varying in occupation and scale, from small housing schemes and churches, to masterplan university development and city office blocks.
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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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