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Book TitleHousing, architecture and the edge condition : Dublin is building : 1935-1975
Chapter TitleHow we might live : the architecture of 'ordinary' housing from late 1940s to 1950s Dublin
Book AuthorRowley, Ellen
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN9781138103801
Date2019
Page(s)pp137-179
Contentperspectives, photos, text
Note(s)This chapter focuses on the architectural community during the 1950s house-building programme, and maps the growing discourse around system building and prefabrication for housing. It concludes that Irish mid-century modernism, as defined by housing, was at once materially radical and emotionally traditional.
Subject(s)one-off houses ; concrete houses ; social housing ; public housing ; urban planning ; housing estates ; architects' houses ; brickwork ; Modern Movement ; suburbs ; architects ; local government ; prefabricated houses
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