RIAI Bookshop

RIAI Bookshop Logo The RIAI Bookshop at 8 Merrion Square is the largest stockist of architectural publications in Ireland.

The RIAI Bookshop is the only supplier of RIAI documentation, many of which are essential to architects, clients and contractors.

Opening Hours: 9.00am - 5.00pm (Monday – Friday)

If you have any bookshop queries, please contact Brona King Tel: 01 6761703

To place your order request, please send your request in writing to Email: bking@riai.ie or Fax: 01 6628593

Top selling book titles:

01		Irish Architecture,The Annual Review 2011/12 Irish Architecture, The Annual Review Vol. 2 (2011/12) and Vol 1 (2010/11) both showcase award-winning Irish architecture and the breath of our contemporary architecture culture. This new RIAI publication raises national and international awareness of the achievements of Irish architects in completed buildings, competitions and awards. PRICE : €30
02		AAI 2011 For 26 years, the AAI's 'New Irish Architecture' series has been comprehensively documenting the best of contemporary Irish architecture through the buildings and projects featured in the annual AAI Awards for Excellence in Architectural Design. PRICE : €20
03		Liam McCormick - Seven Donegal Churches Written and researched by Carole Pollard, this series of eight books includes a volume on each of Liam McCormick's seven churches, setting out the background to the commission, the design of the churches, the artworks and the story of its construction. The eight volume in the series outlines McCormick's life and work, and includes biographies of the artists involved. They are presented in a delightful hardback bound cover. PRICE : €33
04		Public Works Contract for Building Works Designed by the Employer Explained This book explains each contract clause in a clear and easy to understand manner, allowing the reader to develop an insight into how these contracts operate. This book also includes sample documents including notices and letters which add to the readers' understanding of the strict and critical administrative procedures demanded by these contracts. PRICE : €45
05		A Green Vitruvius This second edition improves on an already exceptional resource for practitioners, students and those interested in green design. It gives the professional community both historical data and forward-thinking information to guide and assess design. This book is essential to every designer's library. Now fully updated, this well-established textbook also provides advice suitable for undergraduate and post-graduate students on the integration of sustainable practice into the design and construction process, the issues to be considered, the strategies to be adopted, the elements of green design and design evaluation within the process. PRICE : €44.50
06		Studio Craft & Technique This useful book is something to keep in one's pocket. It is a beginner's guide that will lead you along clear and consecutive paths of applied learning. It is a book of basic principles. "Practice these deceptively simple procedures until your analysis of buildings and places becomes inseparable from your appreciation and the discipline becomes inherent in your own way of working". PRICE : €27.00
07		DRYSTONE WALLS OF ARAN ISLANDS This book provides a fine template and methodology for landscape study, particularly in an Irish context. Mary Laheen examines the many factors that influence the cultural landscape, including topography, geology and political history. PRICE : €20
08		THE NEW HOUSING 2 This RIAI publication intends to show best practice in housing and mixed use development through schemes which are planned, under construction or completed. It follows the full range of urban planning, from villages and small towns, throuh the extensions of towns and cities to regeneration of existing towns and cities. PRICE : €45
09		Slow Architecture and Place Slow Architecture and Place is a new title in the RIAI book shop, edited by Simona Castelli and Mike Haslam with contributions by Brian O’Brien, Ciaran Cuffe and Donal Hickey. It docments a boat-based exhibition that travelled the Grand Canal, taking architectural discourse to new audiences in communities in Counties Offaly, Kildare and Dublin, where over 300 primary school children participated in workshops. The exhibition took the much maligned adjective ‘slow’ from the slow food and cittaslow movement, which have a common holistic concern with ethical, social and environmental issues, and looked to transpose these values to the built environment and asked architects and artists to respond to this notion of slow in their own way. PRICE : €10
10		101 THINGS I LEARNED IN ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL 101 things I Learned in Architecture School' offers architects pearls of wisdom that every architecture student should understand, consider and embrace or perhaps rejects. This book is an eclectic itemisation of architectural philosophies compositional strategies and tactics and even tips about how to behave as an architect. PRICE : €13.95
11		DETAIL IN RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE Each house is presented with colour photographs, plans of every floor, sections, elevations and details. There is also a descriptive text and detailed captions. The houses are presented in clear and concise layouts over four pages and an accompanying CD-ROM contains all the drawings as printed in the book. PRICE : €43
12		THE THINKING HAND EXISTENTIAL AND EMBODIED In 'The Thinking Hand', Juhani Pallasmaa reveals the miraculous potential of the human hand. He shows how the pencil in the hand of the artist or architect becomes the bridge between the imagining mind and the emerging image. PRICE : €30
13		DETAIL IN CONTEMPORARY TIMBER ARCHITECTURE Details in Contemporary Timber Architecture' is an excellent reference work for practicing architecture as well as architects and design students. There is descriptive text and detailed captions and in-depth information for each of the 50 projects included. PRICE : €41
14		DETAIL IN CONTEMPORARY RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE Detail in Contemporary Residential Architecture': Architectural detailing makes a building unique and an architect outstanding - this book provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of detailing - featuring 50 projects of the world's most highly acclaimed architects. PRICE : €43
15		DETAIL IN CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Featuring many of the world's most highly acclaimed architects, this book presents 40 of the most recently completed and influential landscape designs, organised in four sections: parks, cultural civic and waterfront landscapes. Free CD rom with all drawings. PRICE : €38
16		LIME WORKS Lime Work is an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand and easy-to-use guide to the may uses of lime in buildings, including repairs of historic structures and new buildings. It also addresses the environmental benefits of using lime, which has seen a growing interest in its use as a sustainable building material. PRICE : €30
17		CODE OF PRACTICE FOR TENDERING 2006 The Liaison Committee for the RIAI, SCS, ACEI, EI and CIF is established to make recommendations on practice concerning tendering and contractual procedures. PRICE : €20
18		REDRAWING DUBLIN Redrawing Dublin is a collaborative visual urban project explored through the medium of photography and temporary installations. It captures a snapshot of Dublin today and reveals glimpses of recent memory and imagines alternative possible futures. PRICE : €33
19		FREE STATE ARCHITECTURE This new book recounts in detail the formative period of modern architecture in Ireland during the years of the Irish Free State. Extensively illustraved, it uses rare archival photographs original architectural drawings and contmporay sources in the architectural press from Ireland and beyond. PRICE : €20
20		ARCHITECTURE MATERIALS GLASS This volume presents 24 contemporary buildings from all over the world in 300 illustrations and architectural drawings: particularly interesting examples of the interior and exterior use of glass in construction. PRICE : €15
21		GLENN MURCUTT THINKING D/ WORKING D/ Readers are invited to explore the intensity of Glen Murcutt's drawings, the potency of his architecture in the 13 projects included in this book. PRICE : €62.50
22		REUSING FARM BUILDINGS This book highlights some of the threats to the survival of farm complexes in Ireland. Through a series of case studies, it provides suggestions as to sensitive modification and alterations as well as design considerations that can encompass and respect the historic fabric whist creating contemporary living accommodation. This publication will provide food for thought for farmers, developers and anyone with an interest in rural buildings and the challenges they present. PRICE : €20
23		DETAIL IN CONTEPORARY RETAIL DESIGN This book features 44 of the best recent examples of retail design from around the world, and examines the details within the larger decorative schemes. The examples range from specialist boutiques to branded high street chain stores, from fashion retailers to furniture shops and eateries, and include descriptive text, colour photographs, floor plans and sections, as well as numerous construction and decorative details. A bonus CD-ROM contains all the drawings as printed in the book, in both EPS and DWG (generic CAD) formats. PRICE : €38.50
24		DETAIL IN CONTEPORARY KITCHEN DESIGN This book features over 30 kitchen designs from around the world, each created by a notable architect for a specific residence. Arranged into chapters according to the dominant material used in its construction - stone, timber and steel - each design is accompanied by an image of the whole house, placing it in context and providing a flavour of the general design style, clear photographs of the kitchen itself, and a floor plan showing its relation to the other spaces within the house. PRICE : €32
25		DETAIL IN CONTEPORARY GLASS ARCHITECTURE Featuring the work of renowned architects from around the world, this book presents 50 of the most recently completed and influential glass designs for residential, cultural, educational, public and commercial buildings. Each project is presented with colour photographs, floor plans and sections, as well as numerous construction details. The projects are presented in clear and concise layouts over four pages. There is also a bonus CD-ROM which contains all the drawings as printed in the book, in both EPS and DWG (general CAD) FORMATS. PRICE : €45
26		DETAIL IN CONTEPORARY BATHROOM DESIGN This book features 35 specially commissioned bathroom designs by notable international architects. Once regarded as a merely utilitarian room, the bathroom is now seen as a stylish feature of the home, with an increasingly wide range of sophisticated fixtures and fittings and luxury building materials available. Each of the featured bathroom designs is accompanied by an image of the whole house, clear photographs of the bathroom itself, and a floor plan showing its relation to the other spaces. PRICE : €32