Gary A. Boyd, John Mclaughlin

Infrastructure and the Architectures of Modernity in Ireland 1916-2016 (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the interaction between the universalising and globalising tendencies of modernisation on one hand and the textures of local architectures on the other.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351927505
• Artikelnr.: 49335373

Autorenporträt

Dr Gary Boyd is Reader in Architecture, Queen's University Belfast, UK and John McLaughlin is Principal of John McLaughlin Architects, Dublin, Ireland. Together they co-commissioned/curated the Irish Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2014.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Negation: The General Post Office and a Collapsing of Time
2 Power: Are You Getting the Light? Ardnacrusha
the Rural Electrification Scheme and Illuminating Ireland's Peripheries
3 Health: Sanatoria and the Search for an Irish Paimio
4 Bus Transportation - Córas Iompair Éireann and Michael Scott
5 Media: America at Home - The RTÉ Television Centre
6 Aviation: Into the West - Rineanna and the Jumbo Jet
7 Education: 'My father has got a tractor shed like this' - The Doyles
the Concrete Frame and the Democratisation of Education
8 Telecommunications: Infrastructural Adhocism
9 Roads: 'We must have motorways' - Ireland
the Highway and Modernity
10 Data: Clouds and Precipitation
Index