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Liza Goncharenko reviews Seanchaí, the 46th Annual European Architecture Students’ Assembly, held in Waterford from 26 July to 9 August 2026.

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Modernism is Almost All Right #5: James Joyce, Adorno, and the Silicon Docks: Modernism against Technocracy

Felix McNamara considers what James Joyce and Theodor Adorno might teach us about the glib sloganeering and corporate technologism of contemporary property development in the Silicon Docks.

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Pivot Points

Máirtín D’Alton reviews Pivot Points, an exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Irish Architectural Archive, 45 Merrion Square.

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Modernism is Almost All Right #4: Abundance, with Concision and Equality: The Values of Ludwig Hilberseimer’s Rational Modernism

If discussed at all today, Ludwig Hilberseimer's late European and American work is identified as a precursor of contemporary ecological approaches to the city. Scott Colman suggests that his theory of architecture and his approach to design have broader implications – not because Hilberseimer was free of modernist problematics, but because he squarely confronted them.

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Architectural Survey 1957

Editor: Luan P. Cuffe.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

Directory of Architects, Classified Buyers’ Guide, Index to advertisers, Commerce, Health, Industry, Education, Religion, Housing, Public Service
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Architecture Ireland 306

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #306 focuses on the theme of 'Waterford'.

Patterns of space: Understanding Waterford’s urban fabric, A warehouse of ideas: The role of a school of architecture in the city, Generating urban life: Retail, culture and inhabitation, The Waterford region - How spatial thinking is shaping the country’s towns, A disruptive tradition - Waterford as a university city, Home and back again, Framework for living/thinking - On drawing as a springboard into practise, Merrion Cricket Pavilion, Ballsbridge, Policies for practise - An interview with Martin Donnelly, The workshop as a pedagogical model, What is a ‘claims made’ policy, An international context for the practise of architecture, Carlo Scarpa and Castelvecchio Revisited, Correspondence, Between nature and architecture, One matter, two minds, CoHousing Here, In her place, Complex harmonies, Creating places for people - The RIAI Town and Village toolkit, St Mary’s Parish Church, Crumlin, Richard Murphy, Martin Donnelly, Thomas O’Brien, David Leech, Sou Fujimoto, McCullough Mulvin Architects, Shaffrey Architects, McDonnell and Dixon
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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.

process; colour; handmade; home; image; collective; acupuncture; ordinary; architecture; residential architecture; Berlin; Dublin; rooms; people; memories
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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.

architecture review, book review, irish modernism, irish architecture, commercial architecture
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Architectural Survey 1958

Edited by: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

Office, School, education, primary school, secondary school, Kilmacud, shrine, jesuit, ecclesiastical architecture, church, technical school, house, residential, aer lingus, aviation, shop, pub, bar, grafton street, coffee shop, coffee, factory, zoo, hostel, theatre, Gate Theatre, Meath, Galway, Dublin, Belfast, Antrim, Cork, Waterford, Sligo, Kildare,
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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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Architecture Ireland 324

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #324 focuses on the theme of ‘Galway’.

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2ha: the journal of suburban design #03

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #03 explores the relationship between suburban morphology and public spaces. Three essays observe existing conditions and propose an architectural response. A fourth and final essay describes a real intervention which deals with conceptions of public and private in suburbia.

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Architecture Ireland 284

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #284 focuses on the theme of 'housing & place'.

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Architecture Ireland 289

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #289 focuses on current RIAI news, projects such as the Palestinian Museum, Birzeit, and London Design Week.

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Architecture in Ireland - vol. 1, no. 3

Editor: Tomas 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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2ha: the journal of suburban design #05

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
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2ha #05 considers the relationship between language and suburban space. Three essays respond to the fractured process of translation that has come to define the territory of suburbia.

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The Square Kilometre: Naked House Naked City

Editors: Gary A. Boyd, Greg Keeffe, Rebecca Jane McConnell.
Book
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This publication seeks to explore some of the hidden architectures that influence and condition life in the city on a daily basis, beginning within the servicing of the house and expanding over a square kilometre of city fabric.

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DSA 2020

Editors: Stephen Allen, Mark Chester, Romy Marren, Lasairíona Power.
Book
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An annual yearbook featuring student work from the Dublin School of Architecture, TU Dublin.

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Free Market News

Editors: Jeffrey Bolhuis, Jo Anne Butler, Miriam Delaney, Tara Kennedy, Laurence Lord, Orla Murphy.
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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.

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The Sprawling Newspaper

Editors: Michelle Delea, Sarah Mulrooney, Niamh Hurley, Anastasiya Karabanava, Darren O’Connor, Grace Kiernan.
Book
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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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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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Dublin School of Architecture Yearbook 2016

Editors: Philip Duffy, Anne-Lise Olivier, Julia Vivien Rober, Colin Mac Suibhne, Stephen Johnston.
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An annual yearbook featuring student work from the Dublin School of Architecture, TU Dublin.

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