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This book presents an architectural overview of Dublin's mass-housing building boom from the 1930s to the 1970s. During this period, Dublin Corporation built tens of thousands of two-storey houses, developing whole communities from virgin sites and green fields at the city's edge, while tentatively building four-storey flat blocks in the city centre. Author Ellen Rowley examines how and why this endeavour occurred. Asking questions around architectural and urban obsolescence, she draws on national political and social histories, as well as looking at international architectural histories and the influence of post-war reconstruction programmes in Britain or the symbolisation of the modern dwelling within the formation of the modern nation.
Critically, the book tackles this housing history as an architectural and design narrative. It explores the role of the architectural community in this frenzied provision of housing for the populace. Richly illustrated with architectural drawings and photographs from contemporary journals and the private archives of Dublin-based architectural practices, this book will appeal to academics and researchers interested in the conditions surrounding Dublin's housing history.
Contents
Introduction: Three grounds - telling the story of housing architecture in Dublin 1. Irish architecture and its culture, 1930-1970 2. Clearing hovels and building homes: Architectural endeavors in Dublin's housing reforms, 1931-1945 3. Building on the edge: Dublin's suburban housing drive of the 1940s 4. How we might live: The architecture of 'ordinary' housing from the late 1940s to 1950s Dublin 5. Housing the collective: Multi-storey dwellings in Dublin, c.1930 to c.1970 6. Some thoughts...: New and old housing from the 1960s into the 1970s Bibliography. Index
