Featuring an array of award-winning projects, this book demonstrates how key architects across Britain and Ireland are blending contemporary design practices with traditional vernacular buildings.
"Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies" is the annual journal of the Irish Georgian Society. It is the much-enhanced and dramatically expanded successor to the Bulletin, which was published from 1958 to 1997. The journal reflects the Irish Georgian Society’s present wider remit, which is no longer concerned solely with Georgian architecture, but acknowledges the importance of the entire spectrum of Ireland’s post-medieval architecture and its special need for protection, interpretation, understanding and appreciation. The content of each volume of the journal is wide and varied, testimony to the diversity and scholarship of the series.
Published in 2020. - By 1900, Henrietta Street had become synonymous with Dublin’s poverty and decline, as almost every house on the street was in use as tenements.
Scenes from all corners of Ireland by artist Jean Shouldice, known in particular for her architectural impressions of familiar Dublin landmarks and cityscapes.
Good housing policy is good social policy. Indeed, what is little appreciated is that good housing policy is good transport policy, good health policy, good fiscal policy, good planning policy, good gender policy, and so on. The list is almost endless.
From ‘Abhaile’ to ‘zoning’, Housing in Ireland: The A–Z Guide sets out over 600 entries on all aspects of housing, from the practical to policy, and from the theoretical to the technical. It is the comprehensive guide to understanding the most important issue to consistently face Ireland over the last 100 years, and which will most likely be with us for the next 100 years.