Irish Architecture

Published by Irish Georgian Society, 2018 Irish Architectural & Decorative Studies Volume XXI, The Journal of the Irish Georgian Society.

Meet Eileen Gray, the architect behind the monumental E-1027 and pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture.

160 pages, Illustration throughout

The Journal of the Irish Georgian Society. 1ST EDITION

This collection of short memoirs and critical essays explores the relation between home as metaphor and symbol, and home as a physical, material and spatial entity.

This study by the late Arthur Gibney takes you among labourers, craftspeople, contractors, builders, and designers as they populate the building sites of eighteenth-century Ireland. Gibney tells a story that has never been told so comprehensively before. What kind of contracts bound those involved? 

Journal of the Architectural Association of Ireland.

 

This is the first volume in the new series, Leinster, which follows the style of the Ulster volume. There are descriptions of 3,136 gate lodges in the twelve counties and more than 1,500 of them are illustrated.

 

Housing is the single biggest land use in any city and the 1950s and particularly the 1960s, saw Dublin having to expand beyond the city boundaries in order to meet the demand for houses. 

An exquisitely detailed illustrations and engaging words, Stephen Conlin and Peter Harbison bring alive the story of Dublin – its architecture and streetscapes, its government and its people – from Viking times to the present day.