Description
This book examines the architectural design of housing projects in Ireland from the mid-twentieth century. This period represented a high point in the construction of the Welfare State project where the idea that architecture could and should shape and define community and social life was not yet considered problematic. Exploring a period when Ireland embraced the free market and the end of economic protectionism, the book is a series of case studies supported by critical narratives. Little known but of high quality, the schemes presented in this volume are by architects whose designs helped determine future architectural thinking in Ireland and elsewhere. Aimed at academics, students and researchers, the book is accompanied by new drawings and over 100 full colour images, with the example studies demonstrating rich architectural responses to a shifting landscape.
Table of Contents
List of figures
About the editors
About the contributors
Introduction
Irish Housing Design at the Crossroads
Gary A. Boyd, Michael Pike and Brian Ward
1 Housing Indigenous Industry: Bord na Mona settlements in the 1950s
Carole Pollard
2 ‘As easy as plugging in a fire’: Modernity, Morality and the Mespil Apartments 1958-72
Gary A. Boyd
3 The High Life: Ardoyne House, 1962–1967
Kevin Donovan
4 The Sharp Edge of Newness: Situating the Simmonscourt Apartments 1964 - 1966
Aoibheann Ní Mhearáin and Brian Ward
5 Shared Vision, Shared Courtyards: Dundanion Court, Cork 1964 – 1968
Sarah Mulrooney
6 An Architecture of Connections: the Ballybrack Cooperative 1969-72
Brian Ward
7 Castlepark: a vernacular architecture for modern Ireland 1969-72
Brian Ward
8 The Coombe North: Roads, Activism and an Architecture for Dublin’s Liberties
1968-1978
Miriam Delaney
9 The Expression of Method: Six Houses at Herbert Road 1976-1979
Orla Murphy
Index
