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Gary Hamilton reviews a lecture by REIR Studio, part of the 'Conversation Club' lecture series presented by the Office of Public Works in partnership with the National Library of Ireland. The lecture was held on Wednesday May 13th in the Joly Theatre of the National Library of Ireland.
ReadAn interview with Matthew Blunderfield, host of Scaffold podcast, that touches on architectural media, podcasting, and the value of long-form content in a distracted world.
ReadFelicity Maxwell reviews an illustrated lecture by Adrian Tinniswood, author of 'The Houses of Guinness: The Lives, Homes and Fortunes of the Great Brewing Dynasty'. The lecture took place in the Hunting Room of Castletown House, on May 9th, 2026, and was presented by the Office of Public Works (OPW) in association with The Castletown Foundation.
ReadThe coast is not a fixed line; it is a dynamic, shifting environment shaped by erosion, accretion, tidal rhythms, and human intervention. However, while the coast moves, our policies remain static.
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Architectural Survey was an annual review of contemporary architecture in Ireland, which ran from 1953-1972.
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'.
Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #316 focuses on the theme of ‘value’.
Proceedings of the first UCD Urban Design Symposium which took place on 31 March 2023.
2ha #11 considers the idea of architectural failure in the popular perception of suburban worlds.
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.
Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #285 focuses on topics such as the 1916 Rising and recent architecture projects such as Loreto's Sport Centre.
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Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #322 focuses on the theme of ‘density’.
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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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2ha #16 considers the edge city: collating existing analysis, offering new methods and insights, as well as proposing alternative visions of future transformation.
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Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #287 focuses on themes of housing, Danish architecture and the Venice Biennale.
Read moreProceedings of the first UCD Urban Design Symposium which took place on 31 March 2023.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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UTOPIA 7 is a published a study of utopian settlements in Ireland by students in the Dublin School of Architecture.
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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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