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EXT/INT

Isabel Hamilton reviews Francis Matthews’ recent exhibit, EXT/INT, at the Molesworth Gallery, Dublin.

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the write-up

Towards care and repair of Dublin’s flats

Overuse and misuse of 'participatory' terms to describe design processes with limited stakeholder power has devalued these terms, and led to scepticism around the processes described. In deciding how to maintain, repair, and retrofit Dublin's social housing complexes, it's imperative that residents are meaningfully included in decision making, and doing so begins with open, accessible communication, argues Irene Barrenetxea Arriola.

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One Good Idea

Modernism is Almost All Right Issue #1: Introduction

Throughout the twentieth century, modernism reconceptualised and reestablished the practice of architecture to address the key societal and environmental issues of its period. One of its central precepts was the conception of architecture as an instrument capable not only of expressing the human condition but also of actively transforming it. The male-dominated, western-centric, and energy intensive universalism of modernism has latterly been exposed, catalogued, and rightly critiqued. While acknowledging the importance of this critique, this series of articles explores the continuing relevancies of modernist architecture.

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Modernism is Almost All Right

Saving Stephen’s Green: is commercial architecture at odds with heritage?

In this article, Marta Hervás Oroza examines how the redevelopment of Stephen's Green Shopping Centre has prompted a reassessment of what qualifies as heritage; as well as the role active participation plays in shaping our built environment.

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Working Hard / Hardly Working
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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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Architecture Ireland 299

Editor: Sandra O'Connell.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #299 focuses on architecture in the West of Ireland.

Public Choice Award, RCSI, 26 York Street, Dublin, Henry J Lyons, New School in Town, Westport, SJK Architects, One Microsoft Place, Dublin, RKD Architects, Special Jury Award, No 14 Henrietta Street, Tenement Museum Dublin, Shaffrey Architects, Small Commercial, Workplace, Fallahogey Studio, Kilrea, Northern Ireland, McGarry-Moon Architects Ltd, Big Commercial, Workplace, 1 WML Office, Windmill Lane, Dublin, MOLA Architecture, The Future Award, John Monahan, NOJI Architects, Education, New School in Town, Westport, SJK Architects, RCSI, 26 York Street, Dublin, Henry J Lyons, Health, Northwest Cancer Centre, O’Connell Mahon Architects, Isherwood and Ellis Architects, House, Vaulted House, GKMP Architects, House Extension, St. Catherine’s Dublin, Ryan W. Kennihan Architects, Housing, Clancy Quay, OMP Architects, Lindsay Conservation Architects, Public Space, Port Centre Precinct, Dublin, Darmody Architecture, DLR Red Jetty, A2 Architects, Alan Meredith Studio, International, Thapar University, India, McCullough Mulvin Architects, DPA, New Delhi, Conservation, Restoration, No 14 Henrietta Street, Tenement Museum Dublin, Shaffrey Architects, Sustainability, The Mews, DLRA, Dún Laoghaire Rathdown Architects Department, Culture/Public, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Heneghen peng Architects, Blackwood Associates Architects, Small Fit-Out Project, Meath County Council HQ, Navan, Bucholz McEvoy Architects, Universal Design, Newry Leisure Centre, Kennedy FitzGerlad Architects LLP
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RIAI Bulletin 3

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.

Fire prevention, fire construction, lack of fire breaks, hazardous material storage, exposure hazard, ventilation, Accessibility for Fire Fighting, water supply, inadequate segregation of Hazardous Process of Manufacture or Hazardous Material Storage, Available Water Supplies and Fire Fighting Equipment, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committees, AGM, minutes, meeting minutes, fire, fire safety, fire stopping, construction, EPA
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Architecture Ireland 286

Editor: Sandra O’Connell.
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€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #286 focuses on 1916 Centenary commemorations.

Waterford IT, WIT, UCD, Richview, University College Dublin, Bolton Street, DIT, forbo flooring systems, 3rock, New Market, International Concrete Design Competition, Grapels, Schueco sliding door systems, Simon Open Door, Scott Tallon Walker Award, Client Guidance Note, BCAR, statutory boards, Dublin Strolls, Dr. Gregory Bracken, Architecture Ireland and Forbo, Civic trust, Carr Cotter Naessens, heneghen peng, CPD, urban design committee, philip jackson, james kiernan, architectural technology committee, universal design task force, Isoilde Dillon, John Mitchell, School of Architecture University of Limerick, Norelle Breen, Peter Caroll, Simon McGuinness, exhibition, Amie Siegel
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Architecture Ireland 323

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #323 focuses on the theme of ‘labour’.

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RIAI Bulletin 44

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.

Riordan Kavanagh O’Reilly, Maoliosa O’Flynn, Comment, RIAI Reports, Diary, Cryptoporticus and Partners, Hardcore, Review, Crisis in the Industry, House of Today, RIAI Conference 1983, Brick in the Irish Context, Kevin Roche, Microcomputer, Theses, Art in Architecture, RIAI Medal for Housing, The decline of the building industry, The first national house of today, Council, Letter to Taoiseach, Annual Dinner, Rates for Wages, Emoluments, and Expenses, RIAI Practice Notice, Public Sector Fees, IABS, Irish Architects’ Benevolent Society, Fireplaces in 8 Merrion Square, The signing of buildings, News from the Schools, Bolton Street, International Prize for Architecture 1983-1984 of the Belgian National Housing Institute, Passive Solar Design, Rooflighting Design Competition, Adrian Smith, John O’Reilly, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, Royal Hibernian Academy, AAI, Architectural Association ireland, decline, recession, unemployment, brick, exhibition,
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Architecture Ireland 280

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
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€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #280 focuses on the theme of ‘restoration, reuse and adaptation’.

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Architecture Ireland 281

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

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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Architectural Survey 1963

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 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.

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Architecture Ireland 294

Editor: Dr Sandra O'Connell
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€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #294 focuses on the theme of 'conservation + reuse'.

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2ha: the journal of suburban design #07

Editor: Michael K. Hayes. Guest Editors: SET Collective.
Journal
€ 4.00 

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.

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streets for living: a conference on residential road design

Editor: Eoghan Brangan.
Book
€ 7.95 

Organised by an Foras Forbartha, this paper documents the proceedings of a conference on residential road design from Jury’s Hotel in Dublin in May 1976.

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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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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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Dublin School of Architecture Yearbook 2018

Editors: Carol Lawlor, Deimante Paplauskaite, Alice George, Paris Brown, Conor Grossman.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

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Rural

Author: Dominic Stevens.
Book
€ 5.90 

Rural is a collection of projects and essays on contemporary issues facing rural modes of inhabitations and ways to reimagine their potential future.

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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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