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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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Modernism is Almost All Right

Absolute Wasters / Outside In

Peter O’Grady reviews 'Absolute Wasters', a panel discussion between Tanad Aaron, Ciarán Cuffe, Jane Larmour, Ste Murray and Orla O’Kane. The discussion was chaired by Professor Hugh Campbell and organised by UCD student curators. The event was held on Friday May 22nd as part of the opening night of 'Outside In', the UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy’s annual end-of-year exhibition.

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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
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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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2ha: the journal of suburban design #15

Editors: Michael K. Hayes, Alan Mee.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #15 considers sprawl: how to define and find it, how to evaluate its impacts, and how to respond, as urban designers, to the spatial conditions that sprawl engenders.

Switzerland, Kosovo, Leopardstown Shopping Centre, Ballyogan, Naas Road Framework, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, suburbia, sprawl, urban design, UCD studio, suburbanisation, density, morphological districts, calculating sprawl, Parallel Sprawl, Ballyopen, Daisy-Chain Urbanism, Dissolving Differences, Creating Connections, Collective Identity and Suburban Social Networks
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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.

TU Dublin, Strategic Plan, Broombridge, DSA School Strategic plan 2020-25, Linenhall, Georgian Limerick, Tech HQ, Architecture Belongs, Social Experimentation, Dublin Docklands Master plan, Urban Village, Post-Primary School, Housing Scheme, Staccato Music Academy, The Hearth Stone, Dublin Institute of Maritime Technology, A Structural Matrix, Pre-Placement, timber, steel, concrete, towards integrated buildings, timber study, steel study, Recital Hall, thesis, technology, Technical Guidance Documents, TGD, Part L, Developing Technical Skills, Otium, rejuvenated landscape, otium bathing, Venustas, Capel Street, Architectural Students Association, Barcelona as an architectural precedent, Critique, Rethinking the Crit, Social Purpose, Walks of Bath, Bath, Point Cloud, Framing Foci, Bad Architecture, local diversity, Caring for place, Place of Work, joinery, brick, stonelaying, painting, wallpapering,
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RIAI Bulletin 47

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.

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, NUI, Architectural Graduates Association, UIA, Richview, University College Dublin, UCD, professionalism, legislation, the public, Southern Report, Council, New Members, Northern Report, Western Report, Mid-Western Report, Continuing Professional Development, Specimen Structural Drawings for Modular Building, Murray Collection: A fund-raising appeal, marketing, house design competition, Europa Nostra Awards, New roles for architects, An Taisce Award, Society of Chartered Surveyors, Lectures, Equipment for Sale, The Architects’ Golfing Society, Cut price tendering, Payments to contractors, Glandore, The Royal Hospital, Repair Work at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Conservation, Registration, The 2000 Plan, The President’s Inaugural Address, Interior, 1984 - The year for change, Statement on the Building Control Bill, Conservation and Re-Use of Buildings, Architectural Award to Geoffrey Bannister, Richview Open Day, de Blacam & Meagher, Diamond Redfern Anderson, Denis Anderson, Glass and China Shop Dawson Street, Martello Mews,
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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’.

urbanism, urban design, city growth, urban growth, density, residential, school, education, university, theory, review, exhibition, town, city
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Architecture Ireland 300

Editor: Sandra O’Connell.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #300 focuses on the theme of ‘FREESPACE, La Biennale di Venezia'.

Women in Architecture, Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement, WAF, 2018 Stirling Prize, Arsenale, Giardini, Philip Vivian, Sadie Morgan, Jennifer McElwain, Exhibition, Biennale, Italy, Venice, Castello, Photo Essay, review, education, study trip, urbanism, In the mail, Proportional Tricks, Star Apartments, Saorspás, The Factory Floor, Thresholds, Collateral Events, Sounds and Vision, After-Party, A More Feminine Biennale, 1985, Free Market Square, After a Long Day’s Work, Irish Design Everywhere, Elephant in the Room, Marina Tabassum, Diversity and Craft, Immersion, Shane O'Toole, Jeffrey Bolhuis, Dermot Boyd, David Browne, Kathryn Meghen, Jo Anne Butler, Peter Carroll, Louise Cotter, Cian Deegan, Alice Casey, Miriam Delaney, Marc Dubois, David Hughes, Tara Kennedy, Laurence Lord, Mary McCarthy, Frank McDonald, Niall McLaughlin, Alan Mee, Harry Browne, Orla Murphy, Carole Pollard, Angela Rolfe, Christine Sisk, Kerstin Thompson, Martha Thorne, John Tuomey, Nathalie Weadick, Emmett Scnalon, Ali Grehan.
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RIAI Bulletin 2

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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2ha: the journal of suburban design #05

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

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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Architectural Survey 1954

Editor: Luan P. Cuffe.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

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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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Architecture Ireland 271

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 '21st century learning'.

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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'.

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Celebrating Pugin

Editor: Colum O'Riordan. Author: Roderick O'Donnell.
Book
€ 10.00 

Celebrating Pugin features a selection of drawings by 19th-century architect A. W. N. Pugin, displayed as part of an exhibition in the Irish Architectural Archive marking the bicentenary of his birth. The book also includes an essay by Roderick O'Donnell providing an overview on the role of Pugin in Ireland.

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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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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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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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Accuracy and Dimensional Control in Building

Author: Nicholas M. Ryan.
Book
€ 7.95 

This paper explains the nature of dimensional deviation in prefabricated elements and that the development of designs should include a clear approach to accommodate or control deviations when they do occur.

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Ireland in the Year 2000

Book
€ 7.95 

This paper documents the proceedings of a colloquy on Ireland in the Year 2000, held in Kilkea Castle in February 1980.

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