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| Book Title | Irish architecture : the RIAI annual review 2015 / 2016 : |
| Chapter Title | Nation Building - Peter and Mary Doyle's Birr Community School |
| Chapter Author | Ni Mhearain, Aoibheann |
| Book Editor | O'Connell, Sandra |
| Publisher | The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland |
| ISBN | 9780956749352 |
| Date | 2015 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Page(s) | pp28 - 31 |
| Content | photos, text |
| Note(s) | An essay about Birr Community School designed by Peter and Mary Doyle in 1974 and built in 1980. It contends that architecture for the Doyles related to construction and technology as well as being a response to social needs, but not a form of communication. The school building also reflects the Doyles' approach to design, that buildings should be expandable and flexible. IIt became iconic of the State's modernising educational and economic ambitions. |
| Subject(s) | community schools ; structural frames ; steel frames ; concrete ; construction ; modular construction ; restoration |
| QUB Location | Search QUB Library Catalogue |
| UCD Location | Search UCD Library Catalogue |