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What’s the best architecture bookshop in Dublin then?
Where you can buy over the counter.
Hodges Figgis is alright for the punter with an interest, if you are talking technical books I don’t know
What about an architect with an interest.
Somewhere that sells the best Irish Architecture Books, not technical-designed focused
Hodges Figgis sell some of the RIAI books so when I said punter – I probably meant educated punter, some of the books can be a bit of a thesis (I’m looking at you Geography Department of UCD…) but worth a look in.
Hodges Figgis would imo have the best selection of books on architecture in town. Not thats there’s much competition.
Nahh…. the atmosphere is off…. you’re there browsing the books and their secretaries are sitting there staring at you… its not open weekends… its more expensive… and its the RIAI……
I agree actually – you feel as if you’re treading on their turf – and you are I suppose… a nerve centre of a big organisation and a bookshop don’t go together. They should farm out their buyer to a mainstream bookshop.
Don’t know about that roskav, the best architecure bookshops in the UK are attached to the RIBA, RIAS and the Architectural Association.
What’s the problem with the RIAI, Paul. They could not be more helpful in any dealings I’ve had with them?
Originally posted by roskav
I agree actually – you feel as if you’re treading on their turf – and you are I suppose… a nerve centre of a big organisation and a bookshop don’t go together. They should farm out their buyer to a mainstream bookshop.thats exactly it….
every time i set foot in there, I expect to be tapped on the shoulder and asked to leaveTo Alan D — The bookshop is in the same (small) room as two people working on unrelated things .. each time you come in you feel as if you should chat .. which is fair enough except that they are trying to work and you want to look at books… so you go ahead and try this and an awful silence decends.. after two or three trys you end up running out the door in a cold sweat! Maybe the place is haunted…
But seriously .. how about if one bookshop developed relationships with various cultural organisations around ireland. Each organisation would lend one of their members to manage the purchasing of book stock for one day every two weeks or so. The bookshop itself could take care of shelf stocking, ordering and so on. They could have sections such as “Architecture, sponsored by the AAI” or “Sculpture, sponsored by the SSI” and so on.. it would be good for the organisations and the bookshop would come to be regarded as the port of call for not only specialist books, but a well informed and current stock.
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