Ellen Rowley

Housing, Architecture and the Edge Condition (eBook, ePUB)

Dublin is building, 1935 - 1975

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents an overview of Dublin's mass-housing building boom from 1935 to 1975 for the first time. Rowley examines how and why this endeavour occurred: from national political and economic shifts, to the influence of post-war reconstruction programmes in Britain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351592314
• Artikelnr.: 54665364

Autorenporträt

Ellen Rowley is an architectural and cultural historian who has written extensively on twentieth-century architecture in Ireland. She is editor and principal author of More Than Concrete Blocks: Dublin City's Twentieth-Century Buildings and Their Stories - an ongoing research and educational project into Dublin's built environment between 1900 and 2000, commissioned by Dublin City Council and co-funded by the Heritage Council of Ireland. Volume I, 1900-1940 was published in 2016 and Volume II, 1940-1972 will be published in 2018. Ellen co-edited Irish Architecture 1600-2000, Volume IV of Art and Architecture of Ireland. She is a research associate at the School of Architecture (APEP), University College Dublin, Ireland, and she has been the consulting curator of Dublin's tenement history at 14 Henrietta Street, a new museum of Irish urban life and housing. Along with housing and the meaning of ordinary architecture, Ellen is deeply interested in the influence of the Catholic Church upon Ireland's built environment and is working on a research project, The Architecture of Catholic Ireland, 1940-1980.