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Modernism is Almost All Right #8: Landscapes of/for Welfare – Welfare of Landscapes: Environmental Care, Landscape and Education in Post-War Britain.

This essay argues that Brenda Colvin's approach to modernity lay in her ambition to cultivate new ways of living in partnership with nature, by fostering an understanding of ecological interdependence and a sense of responsibility for the environments on which human life depends.

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Tracing Process Knowledge

In this article, Jack O’Hagan and Bodil Eiterstraum travel to Japan to document the demolition and reconstruction of the Ise Jingu Shrine, a cyclical process that preserves traditional construction methods and subverts conventional ideas of authenticity.

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Working Hard / Hardly Working

The mainframe #2: AI and inclusive research

In the second issue of our mini-series 'the mainframe', Annamae Muldowney speaks with Rebecca Joskow, a researcher and practitioner in disability inclusion and assistive technology at the Global Disability Innovation Hub (GDI Hub), a research and practice centre driving disability innovation for a fairer world, based at University College London (UCL). They discuss AI, inclusion and the built environment.

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Future Reference

Working with the grain

Paul Maher reviews ‘The Heart of the Matter’ a lecture by Stephen Witherford of Witherford Watson Mann Architects, part of the Architectural Association of Ireland’s ‘Social Inclusivity in Architecture’ lecture series. The lecture was held on 24 September in the Robert Emmet Theatre in the Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin.

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RIAI Bulletin 16

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.

Farm House Conversion, Refurbishment of Family Cemetery in County Wexford, An Foras Taluntais, Employment register, membership, Conditions of Employment, Scale of Minimum charges, RIAI Pension Fund, RIAI Travelling Scholarship, Peter Doyle, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, symposium, materials, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, members, Election, report, review, education, architectural education, handbook, farm house, conversion, scholarship, pension
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Architecture Ireland 320

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #320 focuses on the theme of 'education + practice'.

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Architectural Survey 1955

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, Sallynoggin, Recreation, Church, Ennistymon, Clare, Rosgill, Donegal, Mortuary, Naas, Chapel, Dining room, Russell Hotel, Dublin, The Punch Bowl, Bar, Pub, Booterstown, Offices, County Council, Cork, Private House, Midlands, residential, housing, Killiney, Children’s House, Social, Care, Institution, Stillorgan, Nursery, Maryland, County School, primary school, national school, Holywood, Vocational, Secondary School, school, Wicklow, The institute of clinical science, Belfast, Laboratory, Bostock House, Crumlin, Factory, mill, Blackwater, Cork, garage, Telephone Exchange, Foxrock, Filling station, petrol station, Ashford, Inchicore, Angus Buckley, H. Fitzgerald Smith, Hilary Heron
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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.

Administration Building, UCD Belfield Campus, The Radio Building, RTE, The International Airport Hotel, The Science Building, University College Galway, Merrion Hall Strand Road, The Institute for Advanced Studies, The Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club, Ronald Tallon’s House, The Paddocks Dalkey, Castlepart Village, Andrezj Wejchert, Robinson Keefe & Devane, RKD, Scott Tallon Walker, STW, Ronald Tallon, Niall Scott, Stephenson Gibney & Associates, Stephenson, Arthur Gibney, Raymond McDonnell, Diamond Redfern and Anderson, Editorial, RIAI Notes, Enforcement of Interim Certificates, Awards, RIAI Personages, Bolton Street School of Architecture, Diary, RIAI Gold Medal, RIAI Medal for Housing, RIAI Council for 1978, Short Courses, Scandinavian Architecture, Europa Nostra Award, Habitation Space Award, British Hospitals Exhibition, Visit of Finnish Architects, Public Lecture, Education, Membership, RIAI Gold Medal, RIAI Medal for Housing, John O’Gorman, Campanile, University College Dublin, University College Galway, Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club, House, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, symposium, materials, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, members, Election, report, review, award, gold medal, medal for housing, university, college, club, airport, hotel.
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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.

Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, AAI, Architectural Association ireland, practise notice, UCD, University College Dublin, Bolton Street, concrete, materiality, design, detail, specification, CIF, Derek Tynan, David Kelly, Quilligan, Twamley, Sheila O’Donnell, Moloney O’Berine, Guy-Hutchinson Locke, James Horan and Anne Harper, Ballynahinch, Robinson McIlwaine, Glenarm Housing, Northern Ireland Housing Executive, Northern Bank, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Ferguson and McIlveen, New School of Architecture Building, Queens,
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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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Architecture Ireland 302

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland.

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RIAI Bulletin 35

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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2ha: the journal of suburban design #12

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #12 considers the power of local, national, and international governance in determining suburban morphology. Three essays focus on the multiple means by which bureaucratic structures and political ideologies control the ways, rules, and regulations in which suburban development takes place.

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Architectural Survey 1961

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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Architecture Ireland 297

Editor: Sandra O'Connell.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #297 focuses on the theme 'housing innovation'.

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Architecture in Ireland - vol. 1, no. 1

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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20 Irish Buildings You Should Know

Editors: Róisín Bean, Tim Connell, Brian Gargan, Paul Kelly, Adam McLoughlin, Jack Prendergast.
Book
€ 0.00 

Twenty twentieth-century Irish buildings that students of architecture should know, as chosen by TU Dublin fourth-year architecture students.

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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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The Square Kilometre: Naked House Naked City

Editors: Gary A. Boyd, Greg Keeffe, Rebecca Jane McConnell.
Book
€ 0.00 

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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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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Observation Study of Housing Estate Elements

Authors: R. Mulvihill, E. Burke, N. Byrne.
Book
€ 7.95 

This paper reports on a study investigating aspects of housing estates related to the pedestrian precinct or residential yard concept.

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Free Market News

Editors: Jeffrey Bolhuis, Jo Anne Butler, Miriam Delaney, Tara Kennedy, Laurence Lord, Orla Murphy.
Book
€ 0.00 

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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