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The mainframe #1: AI and climate

In the first issue of our new mini-series ‘the mainframe’, Annamae Muldowney interviews Erida Bendo, a Berlin-based architect, computational designer and environmental design specialist. Through expert interviews, the mainframe examines the impact of Artificial Intelligence on design. Each interview focuses on a different intersection, with this issue focusing on what AI can, and cannot, do for climate.

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Future Reference

Get your house in order

Ben Murray reviews ‘Architecture 2026: Home Truths’, the 2026 conference of the Royal Society of Ulster Architects. The conference was held at Queen’s University Belfast on 3 September 2026.

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the write-up

Carrying Forward!

In this article, Ananya Jain reflects on how different educational and professional environments shaped her sense of belonging through her journey from Delhi to Belfast, and the role mentorship, migration, identity, and belonging has played in her navigation of both architectural education and practice.

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Present Tense

The making of change

In this article, Brian Kelly proposes that architects prioritise community-led making as a means of translating complex issues into more tangible and accessible forms. Drawing on insights from two personal projects, he argues that change must be ‘made’ through time, passion, and conversation with others.

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One Good Idea
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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.

Liberties Prototype House Improvement, Comment, RIAI Reports, Annual Conference 1978, The Man of Many Hats, Dublin, Paul Rudolf, Special Message from the President, The Council of the Institute 1979, AGM 1978, EEC Directive for Architects, Liaison with the Provinces, Liberties Prototype House Improvement, Study by the Housing Research Unit School of Architecture UCD for Dublin South City Resources Project, Materials as a determinant of form, Committees, client, practitioner, consultant, Sam Lyons, Tony Sheppard, Housing Research Unit, School of Architecture, UCD, Dublin South City Resources Project, Inner City study, Awards, Mosaics, 23rd RS Reynolds Memorial Award 1979, Trees and Buildings: Complement and Conflict, International Construction, Learning from Past Experiences: Housing and Planning in the Eighties, Energy Conservation in the Building Stock, Only One Future for Our Children, Development without Destruction, UIA Community Participation in Comprehensive Social Facilities, Robin Walker, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, members, materials, form, prototype housing, liberties
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RIAI Bulletin 36

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 Report, Diary, Cryptoporticus and Partners, Hardcore, President’s Inaugural Address, European Passive Solar Competition, From The Schools, Industrialisation, Review, And now for something completely different, European Architecture Students Assemble, Slide Library, Architects Ball 1982, Structures, Regs illustrated, Council, Conference 1982, Southern Report, Professional Competence Examinations, Western Report, Northern Report, Architectural Review, Francoise Henry, Frixos Joannides, Rolf Loeber, A biographical dictionary of Architects in Ireland 1600-1720, Derryhivenny Castle, Renaissance Year Exhibition, Arbitration Course, Maloney, O’Beirne, Guy + Hutchinson, Locke & Monk, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland,
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Architecture Ireland 272

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #272 focuses on the theme of 'the year in architecture'.

architecture review, book review, irish architecture
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Architectural Survey 1969

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, factory, nursing home, bank, RTE, restaurant, Montrose, brutalism, modern architecture, offices, Planetarium, Armagh, Branch Bank, bank, Ballybrack, Chapel, church, Gonzaga College, secondary school, Ranelagh, Horseleap, Westmeath, Nurses’ home, Drogheda, Louth, Apartments, Sussex Road, Rowan House, Mews, Pembroke Lane, County Hall, Cork, Castlefreke Hotel, Knitwear Factory, factory, Monasterevin, Lansdowne House, Ballsbridge, Vocational School, Ballyfermot, Offices, workshop, Institute for Industrial Research, IIRS, Ballymun, Donnycarney, Coolock, Foras Taluntais, Laboratory, lab, Fermoy, Wilton Terrace, Fitzwilton House
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Architecture Ireland 305

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #305 focuses on the theme of ‘colour’.

Appropriate colours, ‘A house that is completely white looks like a cream jug’ - Le Corbusier’s colour scheme at Maison La Roche-Jeanneret (1923-25), A kaleidoscopic architecture, Close reading through colour, Urban colour gestalt and chromatic entropy, Achieving quality through smart procurement - An interview with RIAI CEO Kathryn Meghen, Rethinking the crit - A new pedagogy in architectural education, Professional indemnity insurance, RIAI Architecture Awards 2019, RIAI Silver Medal for Housing, RIAI and OPW design competition for a commemorative bridge at the Irish War Memorial Gardens, Ballyless is not Ballymore - A review of the RIAI and DHPLG National Housing Conference 2019, City as sponge - De Urbanisten, Architectural behaviorology, Venice to Cork and back - Close Encounter: Meetings with Remarkable Buildings, Mallow Union Workhouse, George Wilkinson, 1839, Atelier Bow-Wow, De Urbanisten
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Architecture Ireland 288

Editor: Sandra O'Connell, Noel Brady
Journal
€ 9.50 

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'.

urban design, masterplanning, town planning, civic architecture, architecture review, interview, book review, project review
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RIAI Bulletin 17

Editor: J. Owen Lewis.
1978
€ 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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2ha: the journal of suburban design #06

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #06 considers the relationship between typology and the architecture of suburbia. Three essays respond to the evolving spatial types that define the suburbs as a coherent condition.

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Architecture Ireland 290

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #290 focuses on topics such as architectural fees, the UTEC University in Lima and the RIAI Annual Conference.

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RIAI Bulletin 7

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 Ireland 275

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #275 focuses on topics such as Irish modernism and contemporary Irish design.

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RIAI Bulletin 4

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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Department of Architecture and Town Planning, DIT Bolton Street, 1992-1994

Editors: Edmund O’Shea, Noel Jonathan, James Horan.
Book
€ 0.00 

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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A Guide to Modern Architecture in Dublin

Editor: Tomás O'Beirne.
Book
€ 9.00 

Featuring projects from 1953 to 1977, this book lays out 109 examples of modern architecture in Dublin, varying in occupation and scale, from small housing schemes and churches, to masterplan university development and city office blocks.

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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.

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

Author: Myles Wright
Book
€ 7.95 

The second of the two volumes, The Dublin Region: Advisory Plan and Final Report (Part II) 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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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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Domestic

Author: Dominic Stevens
Book
€ 5.90 

Domestic is a reflection on the design of domestic spaces by architect Dominic Stevens.

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