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By presenting architecture only through slick final images, we undersell the true complexity and value of the profession, argues Dr Rebecca Jane McConnell.
ReadStephen Mulhall reviews the Architectural Association of Ireland's Critic's lecture 'The Architecture of Softness,' delivered by Phineas Harper on April 16th, 2026.
ReadWalking through the streets of Dublin and London, Luke Dillon reflects on the evolution of blind windows as an architectural motif and their ambiguous performance as both practical requirement and deliberate compositional tool.
ReadWhile 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.
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Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #294 focuses on the theme of 'conservation + reuse'.
2ha #11 considers the idea of architectural failure in the popular perception of suburban worlds.
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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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.
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.
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.
Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #285 focuses on topics such as the RIAI Annual Awards and commercial architecture.
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Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #296 focuses on the theme 'architecture in practice'.
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Empirical is an annual architectural research journal by TU Dublin architectural technology students exploring environmental design, digitalisation, materials, and building performance.
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Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #301 focuses on the theme of ‘Community & Place’.
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Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #311 focuses on the theme of 'data'.
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Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #288 focuses on the theme of 'place and urban design'.
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An annual yearbook featuring student work from the Dublin School of Architecture, TU Dublin.
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This publication seeks to explore some of the hidden architectures that influence and condition life in the city on a daily basis, beginning within the servicing of the house and expanding over a square kilometre of city fabric.
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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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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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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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Domestic is a reflection on the design of domestic spaces by architect Dominic Stevens.
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