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Static policy for a dynamic coast

The 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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Future Reference

Making space for stories

Annamae Muldowney reviews Noel McCauley’s lecture on Duncan McCauley's work, part of the Conversation Club lecture series presented by the Office of Public Woks in partnership with the National Library of Ireland. The lecture was held on Thursday April 30th in the Joly Theatre of the National Library of Ireland.

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Drafting Identity: In Practice

In this article, Julia Przado continues 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. Julia explores the underrepresentation of women in senior roles within the architectural profession, and the importance of representation, recognition and mentorship.

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Present Tense

Show the system, not just the render

By presenting architecture only through slick final images, we undersell the true complexity and value of the profession, argues Dr Rebecca Jane McConnell.

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One Good Idea
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Architectural Survey 1972

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

Sculpture, sculptor, art, Ian Stuart, fountain, Stephen Court, library, questionnaire, submission, residential, education, schools, shopping centre, ESC, district, offices, public toilets, public bathrooms, social housing, public housing, computers, BOI, bank, hospitality,
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Architecture Ireland 304

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #304 focuses on the theme of ‘local authority’.

An opportunity to make home, Supporting governance through research - The SAUL Intelligence Unit, About town - An interview with Orla Murphy and Miriam Delaney of Free Market, Digital public participation - Understanding perceptions of landscape in North West Ireland, The process of placemaking- An account of College Green, Dublin, Creating and using datasets on vacancy, The design of local governance - Municipal structures and the potential role of spatial thinking, Designing data - Architectural practice and building information modelling, Crafting and grafting - a model for collective architecture, Masters Field Student Accommodation, An update on construction law, Templecarrig, Dublin’s Bourgeois Homes, The beauty of the ordinary, Space of no use, Architecture in the expanded field, An architecture that speaks for itself, My writing space, front portico, Emo Court, Arthur and John Williamson, 1822, Obituary: Kevin Roche, Susan Galavan, Peter Barber Architects, Aristide Antonas, Prof. Gary Boyd, Dorte Mandrup, Arthur and John Williamson, Niall McLaughlin Architects
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RIAI Bulletin 23

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.

Comment, RIAI Reports, Diary, Time and Place, Housing Conference, Practice notes, travelling scholarship, RIAI Conference, Committees, Metrication, Tender Procedure, 8 Merrion Square, New DOE Outline Specification for Housing, News Information Service for the Construction Industry, House Building Cost Index, Northern Report, Ronnie Tallon, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, members,
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Architecture Ireland 310

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #310 focuses on the theme of ‘play’.

Architectural Farm, Fernhill creative play: A child-led approach to designing for play, Playful playmaking: How to engage and spark collaboration in the design of public space, Rediscovering the city: How children use and perceive the urban public realm, This being where we play: A programme for reimagining Liberty Park, The changing face of play in the city, We are simply recreating things we enjoyed, so that somebody else might enjoy them, Managing your business in a time of global crisis, The non-material subject matter of architectural design, The architect as an expert witness, Micro-topographies and movement: How architects can learn from skateboarding, Dixon Jones 2: Buildings and Projects 1998-2019, A Real Living Contact with the Things Themselves, Curatorial endeavour, The strange death of architectural criticism, Urban morphology and design intuition, Hole in the wall blues, Humanism, craft, and generosity, A Playful City, Ian Latham, Irénée Scalbert, Hall McKnight, Catherine Slessor, Karl Kropf, Iveagh Play Centre, McDonnell and Reid
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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.

School of Architecture, University College Dublin, UCD, neighbourhood, The Liberties, Dublin, Dublin Corporation, DCC, density, planning regulation, housing conference, urban living, the devaluation of the street, the role of the street, land use, building condition, condensation,
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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.

capital, suburbia, money, finance, transactional urbanism, consumerism, social infrastructure, developers, REITs, IKEA, socio-spatial segregation, townships, suburban speculation, Maastricht, Cherrywood, Phnom Penh, Den Haag, Clontarf, Rathgar, Victorian Dublin, a cost for living
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RIAI Bulletin 21

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 313

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #313 focuses on the theme of 'Limerick'.

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RIAI Bulletin 45

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 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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Architecture Ireland 293

Editor: Dr. Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #293 focuses on the theme of 'designing Ireland's commercial infrastructure'.

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RIAI Bulletin 56

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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Dublin School of Architecture Yearbook 2016

Editors: Philip Duffy, Anne-Lise Olivier, Julia Vivien Rober, Colin Mac Suibhne, Stephen Johnston.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

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The Sprawling Newspaper

Editors: Michelle Delea, Sarah Mulrooney, Niamh Hurley, Anastasiya Karabanava, Darren O’Connor, Grace Kiernan.
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€ 0.00 

The Sprawling Newspaper emerged during the production of The Sprawling Octopus of an Elevated Highway, a documentary film which centres around a public campaign against the B.K.S. traffic plan for Cork in 1968.

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The Antique Pavement

Author: Derry O'Connell.
Book
€ 4.75 

An illustrated guide to Dublin's street furniture.

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living in town ... conserving the future

Book
€ 7.95 

A pamphlet documenting the papers presented at the National Housing Conference held at Leopardstown, Co. Dublin, in October 1974.

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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 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.

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