LEADER 05093oam 2200565I 450 001 9910154984003321 005 20240505162624.0 010 $a1-351-92749-3 010 $a1-138-57236-5 010 $a1-315-25225-2 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315252254 035 $a(CKB)3710000000965794 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4758874 035 $a(OCoLC)1000443020 035 $a(BIP)63372364 035 $a(BIP)49259100 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000965794 100 $a20180706e20162015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aInfrastructure and the architectures of modernity in Ireland 1916-2016 /$fedited by Gary A. Boyd and John McLaughlin 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (232 pages) $cillustrations, maps 300 $aFirst published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 08$a1-4724-4686-0 311 08$a1-351-92750-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Negation : the General Post Office and a collapsing of time / Gary A. Boyd -- 2. Power : are you getting the light? Ardnacrusha, the rural electrification scheme and illuminating Ireland's peripheries / Gareth Doherty -- 3. Health : sanatoria and the search for an Irish Paimio / Ellen Rowley -- 4. Bus transportation - Co?ras Iompair E?ireann and Michael Scott / Sarah Lappin and Una Walker -- 5. Media : America at home - the RTE? television centre / Kevin Donovan -- 6. Aviation : into the West - Rineanna and the jumbo jet / Anna Ryan -- 7. Education : 'my factor has got a tractor shed like this' - the Doyles, the concrete frame and the democratisation of education / Aoibheann i? Mheara?in -- 8. Telecommunications : infrastructural adhocism / Brian Ward -- 9. Roads : 'we must have motorways'. Ireland, the highway and modernity / Denis Linehan -- 10. Precipitation : clouds, chips and the city / John McLaughlin. 330 $aAt the formation of the new Republic of Ireland, the construction of new infrastructures was seen as an essential element in the building of the new nation, just as the adoption of international style modernism in architecture was perceived as a way to escape the colonial past. Accordingly, infrastructure became the physical manifestation, the concrete identity of these objectives and architecture formed an integral part of this narrative. Moving between scales and from artefact to context, Infrastructure and the Architectures of Modernity in Ireland 1916-2016 provides critical insights and narratives on what is a complex and hitherto overlooked landscape, one which is often as much international as it is Irish. In doing so, it explores the interaction between the universalising and globalising tendencies of modernisation on one hand and the textures of local architectures on the other. The book shows how the nature of technology and infrastructure is inherently cosmopolitan. Beginning with the building of the heroic Shannon hydro-electric facility at Ardnacrusha by the German firm of Siemens-Schuckert in the first decade of independence, Ireland became a point of varying types of intersection between imported international expertise and local need. Meanwhile, at the other end of the century, by the year 2000, Ireland had become one of the most globalized countries in the world, site of the European headquarters of multinationals such as Google and Microsoft. Climatically and economically expedient to the storing and harvesting of data, Ireland has subsequently become a repository of digital information farmed in large, single-storey sheds absorbed into anonymous suburbs. In 2013, it became the preferred site for Intel to design and develop its new microprocessor chip: the Galileo. The story of the decades in between, of shifts made manifest in architecture and infrastructure from the policies of economic protectionism, to the opening up of the country to direct foreign investment and the embracing of the EU, is one of the influx of technologies and cultural references into a small country on the edges of Europe as Ireland became both a launch-pad and testing ground for a series of aspects of designed modernity. 606 $aArchitecture and society$zIreland$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aArchitecture and society$zIreland$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aInfrastructure (Economics)$zIreland$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aInfrastructure (Economics)$zIreland$xHistory$y21st century 615 0$aArchitecture and society$xHistory 615 0$aArchitecture and society$xHistory 615 0$aInfrastructure (Economics)$xHistory 615 0$aInfrastructure (Economics)$xHistory 676 $a720.9415 701 $aBoyd$b Gary A$0910268 701 $aMcLaughlin$b John$0783337 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154984003321 996 $aInfrastructure and the architectures of modernity in Ireland 1916-2016$92241182 997 $aUNINA