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Author:   Gary A. Boyd ,  John McLaughlin
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.694kg
ISBN:  

9781138572362

ISBN 10:   1138572365
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   22 November 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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'Rather than the monuments, places and things that dominate most accounts of architectural modernity, Infrastructure and the Architectures of Modernity in Ireland shifts attention to less visible networks, systems and connections. Emphasizing the effects of Ireland's rurality, and of its position midway between Europe and the USA, the essays here make the case for stuff like electrification, telephone networks, highways, airports, and data storage as being most symptomatic of the Irish experience of the modern. This is fresh research, and the book is a valuable new addition to the now growing number of alternative narratives of modernity.' Adrian Forty, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, UK

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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.

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