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Is creativity what makes us human?

Creativity has long been the human capacity we considered beyond the reach of any machine. Most can agree that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has crossed the threshold of being on the periphery to our work and is now embedding itself into our thinking, our workflows, and our society. As these shifts begin influencing the creative industries, we have to ask: what truly changes, and is creativity still what makes us human?

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Future Reference

Drafting Identity: My job is not my hobby

In this article, Ciara O’Connell closes 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. Ciara explores the pressures a career in architecture places on life outside of work, and the significant material impacts that places on women, in particular.

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Present Tense

Totems: Selected Essays on Architecture - Book Review

Kevin Donovan reviews Irénée Scalbert's book 'Totems: Selected Essays on Architecture', published by Park Books in 2026.

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Open Space

The kids are alright

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.

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RIAI Bulletin 26

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.

Extraordinary General Meeting on premises, Council, Cork, New House Style, Building Bye-Laws in Dublin, Belfast, Annual Conference 1980, Gerald McNicholl, An Appreciation, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, standards, EGM, Extraordinary General Meeting, Annual Conference, exhibition, Comment, RIAI Reports, Diary, President’s Inaugural Address, Tradition & Directions, Proposed Contract of Employment
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Architectural Survey 1965

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

Church, Hospital, Commerce, Health, Industry, Education, Religion, Housing, Public Service, Recreation, school, extension, political, embassy, chancellery, Bank, offices, hotel, Louis LeBrocquy, Patrick McElroy, Desmond Kinney, mural, tapestry, art, pub, social housing, flats, private house, residential, factory, stained glass, oisin Kelly, Royal Hospital, Belfast, Church, Sion Mills, Tyrone, Murlough, Donegal, Cooleragh, Tec, School, extension, secondary school, Leix, Clogher Road, Harold’s Cross, Crumlin, carlow, offices, insurance, Dame Street, US Embassy, embassy, Ballsbridge, grand parade, airline, aviation, Westmoreland Street, Newforge Lane, Bank, Suffolk Street, Shaftesbury Square, hotel, Tivoli, Cork, Louis LeBrocquy, Patrick McElroy, Desmond Kinney, Bronze Mural, Decoration, Carrickmacross, Concrete Mural, Mural, Belfast, Hotel Extension, Anglesea Street, Municipal Housing, Bridgefoot Street, social housing, flats, Housing scheme, estate, Ennis Road, Limerick, Private House, housing, Clondalkin, Baltimore, Annadale Road, Factory, Baldonnel, Factory, Inchicore, Shelter, Moran Park, Dun Laoghaire, DLR, People’s Park, Municipal Baths, baths, sea bathing, Bray, Wicklow, Public House, Ormeau Road, pub, bar, frieze, Patrick McIlroy, Patrick Pollen, Werner Schurmann,
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LINE 01

Editors: Caoimhe Power, Gabriella Brady, Helen McFadden, Lauren Forde.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

Student, TUD, Final year, projects, university, work from home, timber construction, essay, furniture, office, architectural technology, thesis
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2ha: the journal of suburban design #14

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #14 considers the ways in which public art is made and consumed within the suburbs. Four essays describe divergent approaches to project commissioning and implementation, highlighting the varied contexts and conditions that determine a work's lasting impact.

art, suburbia, public art, monuments, cultural regeneration, memory, sculpture, impromptu art, Ballymun, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Tallaght, Corish Roundabout, Wexford, Celtic Tiger, class, an object to interest
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Architecture Ireland 317

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #317 focuses on the theme of ‘housing as a public good’.

Designing for the public good - embedding spatial thinking in the development process, Housing as a public asset - Valuing our social housing stock, Housing as a social good - A strategy for ending homelessness, Housing First is clear in what it requires; how does architecture help deliver? Housing as a human right - Designing for diversity, Planning for the collective good - Castle Rackrent 2.0, Remembering John Meagher, Remembering Paddy Cahill, Designing together in COVID times, Construction contracts and dispute resolution news, Ireland’s Collaborative Town Centre Health Check (CTCHC) Programme - Putting Town Centres First, Working by design - An introduction to collective bargaining, Opportunity and preparedness - An interview with Gerry Cahill on his first five years in practise, Dublin by Design: Architecture and the City, Architecture Is a Social Act, Reinventing housing, Pilgrimage church in Neviges by Gottfried Bohm - A narrative to building, I saw a vision, Design for a labourers’ cottage, Cashel Rural District Council, Co.Tipperary, Joseph Connolly
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Post Industrial

Editor: Miriam Delaney.
Book
€ 0.00 

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.

Industrialisation, Great Famine, Act of Union, settlements, model villages, Mountrath, Laois, Society of Friends, Charles Henry Coote, Statistical Survey of Laois 1800, industry, brewery, pottery, woollen mills, cotton, Kilkenny, village, Earl of Ormond, crossroad plan, linear town, town square, High Street, triangular centre, village morphology, Louisburgh, Mayo, Dunmanway, Cork, Maynooth, Kildare, Tallow, Waterford, Belmullet, Johnstown, Ballyragget, Geashill, Offaly, Castleblayney, Monaghan, Eyrecourt, Rathdowney, Galway, Lurgan, Armagh, Monivea, New Birmingham, Athenry, Slieveardagh Hills, Glengoole, Robert Ffrench, Kilcooley, Utopian Socialism, Stratford, Slaney, town planning, crescent form, Abbeyleix, Laois, Hillsborough, Down, Tyrrellspass, Meath, Mountbellew, Galway, Johnstown, Kilkenny, Slane, Westport, Ballyhaise, Cavan, Castlewellan, Down, piers, quays, Roundstone, Binghamstown, Killala, Achill, Knightstown, Kerry, Carrigaholt, Cork, Balinskelligs, Ballyvaughan, Liscannor, Rossaveel, Old Head, Inishturk, Raughly, Brandon, Spiddal, Barna, Seafield, Kilbaha, Dingle, Cahersiveen, Doonbeg, Cleggan, Clifden, New Quay
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2ha: the journal of suburban design #09

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

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.

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The Antique Pavement

Book
€ 4.75 

An illustrated guide to Dublin's street furniture.

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Architectural Survey 1965

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

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Architectural Survey 1960

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

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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.

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Architecture in Ireland - vol. 2, no. 2

Editor: Tomás O'Beirne.
Journal
€ 5.95 

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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Post Industrial

Editor: Miriam Delaney.
Book
€ 0.00 

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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UCD Architecture 2006

Editors: Gary A. Boyd, Hugh Campbell, Pierre Jolivet, Jim Murphy, Elizabeth Shotton.
Book
€ 0.00 

An annual yearbook featuring staff and student work from the UCD School of Architecture.

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

Author: Myles Wright.
Book
€ 7.95 

The first of the two volumes, The Dublin Region: Advisory Plan and Final Report (Part I) 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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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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Ireland in the Year 2000: Towards a National Strategy

An Foras Forbartha
Book
€ 7.95 

This publication documents a 1983 colloquium concerned with the need for an Irish national strategic plan to provide the physical, economic, and social infrastructure required by the end of the 20th century.

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DSA 2020

Editors: Stephen Allen, Mark Chester, Romy Marren, Lasairíona Power.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

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