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A space for public opinion and debate, engaging with a broad range of contributors in architecture, landscape, urban design, planning, and beyond.

Value judgements

In the latest edition of 'the write-up', Alex Curtis reviews the Architectural Association of Ireland's 'Systems and Selves' lecture, which this year featured Carmody Groarke.

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the write-up

Discrete objects of thought

In assessing how to reuse the built fabric and harness the latent potential of our towns and cities, architects have much to learn from artists about disconnecting object and subject, argues Tom Cookson.

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One Good Idea

Are communes the way forward?

Topics such as housing, income inequality, and the environmental crisis are common topics of concern in 2026. At first, they appear hopelessly unsolvable and, once dug into a little deeper, completely interrelated. In this article, Phoebe Moore explores alternative housing models, and ways forward through communal living.

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Present Tense

For the want of a bike shop, we lose the city

After forty-one years in business, what was probably Dublin’s smallest bike shop: McCormack’s on Dorset Street, pulled down the shutters for the last time. In this article, Róisín Murphy uses the closure as a lens on the wider disappearance of small, long-standing businesses from the city, asking how liveable Dublin can remain if independent traders and venues continue to vanish.

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Future Reference
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Architectural Survey 1955

Editor: Luan P. Cuffe.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

Directory of Architects, Classified Buyers’ Guide, Index to advertisers, Commerce, Health, Industry, Education, Religion, Housing, Public Service, Sallynoggin, Recreation, Church, Ennistymon, Clare, Rosgill, Donegal, Mortuary, Naas, Chapel, Dining room, Russell Hotel, Dublin, The Punch Bowl, Bar, Pub, Booterstown, Offices, County Council, Cork, Private House, Midlands, residential, housing, Killiney, Children’s House, Social, Care, Institution, Stillorgan, Nursery, Maryland, County School, primary school, national school, Holywood, Vocational, Secondary School, school, Wicklow, The institute of clinical science, Belfast, Laboratory, Bostock House, Crumlin, Factory, mill, Blackwater, Cork, garage, Telephone Exchange, Foxrock, Filling station, petrol station, Ashford, Inchicore, Angus Buckley, H. Fitzgerald Smith, Hilary Heron
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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.

Planning division working paper, housing user satisfaction, relative importance of elements, low rise, housing complaint level, Cork, Dublin, Limerick, Estate Appearance, Vandalism, Play, Back Garden, School, Front Garden, Rent, Shops, Work Convenience, Traffic, Census, Tomas O’Beirne, The estate outside the dwelling, Journal of Architectural Research, American Journal of Sociology, Urban Studies, Encounter, Environment Planning,
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RIAI Bulletin 5

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, EEC, Architectural Heritage Year, President’s Report, Education for Planners for Ireland, Architectural Journalism, Honorary Treasurer’s Statement, General Secretary, RIAI/AAI Combined Prize 1973, Professional Indemnity Insurance, President of Ireland, National Economic and Social Council, Architectural Journalism, Classes of Membership, Pension schemes, professional indemnity insurance, VAT, Competitions, Canvas Furniture Design, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Public Library of Damascus, CAA Conference, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committees, AGM, minutes, meeting minutes, exhibition, competition, symposium, materials, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, AAI, RIAI, office block, library, golfing society, Furniture Design, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Public Library, Damascus, CAA Conference., Matters arising out of the Minutes, E.E.C., Architectural Heritage Year, 1975., President’s Report, Any Other Business, E.E.C. Affairs, Education for Planners for Ireland, Central Testing Station, National Economic and Social Council, Architectural Journalism, E.E.C. Directory, Classes of Membership, General Secretary, European Architectural Heritage Year, RIAI / AAI Combined Prize 1973, Pension Schemes, Professional Indemnity Insurance, New Office Block, Library, Golfing Society, New Committees, V.A.T: Fees, Building Contracts, ‍Canvas Furniture Design, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Public Library of Damascus, ‍AAI Conference, CAA Conference, Short Courses
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2ha: the journal of suburban design #08

Editors: Michael K. Hayes, DoCoMoMo Ireland.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #08 considers the legacy of modernism in forming the contemporary suburb. Three essays respond to the functions, scales, and personal expectations that a modern ideology makes possible.

modernism, suburbia, suburban housing, shopping centres, university campus, Stillorgan, Nenagh, UCD Belfield, Firhouse, new town, inter-war, housing, a land of tomorrows
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RIAI Bulletin 58

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, Gold Medal, Annual Conference, Quantity Surveyor, Burke Kennedy Doyle, The Organon Factory, Nevvyphonn, Ailwee Caves, Ailwee Caves Access Building, Ballyvaughan, Andrez Wejchert, Bord na Mona, Baggot Street
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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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2ha: the journal of suburban design #10

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #10 considers the impact of capital on the shaping of suburban space. Three essays describe how the architecture, society, and culture of a city can be influenced by the flows of finance.

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2ha: the journal of suburban design #05

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

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.

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RIAI Bulletin 52

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 297

Editor: Sandra O'Connell.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #297 focuses on the theme 'housing innovation'.

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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.

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RIAI Bulletin 7

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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Back to the Street

Author: Gerry Cahill.
Book
€ 6.00 

Jointly published by the Housing Resarch Unit at the School of Architecture in University College Dublin and Cement-Roadstone Holdings Ltd., Back to the Street records Dublin inner-city housing at the beginning of the 1980s and proposes a strategy of urban renewal through the provision of housing to deal with city dereliction and decay.

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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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This is Content. This is Theory. This is Craft.

Editors: Tim Connell, Emma Kavanagh, Peter MacClancy, Adam McLoughlin, Michael Sykes.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

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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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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.

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The Dublin Region: Advisory Plan and Final Report (Part II)

Author: Myles Wright
Book
€ 7.95 

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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