Infrastructure and the architectures of modernity in Ireland 1916-2016 / / edited by Gary A. Boyd and John McLaughlin

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 720.9415
• Soggetto topico: Architecture and society - Ireland - History - 20th century; Architecture and society - Ireland - History - 21st century; Infrastructure (Economics) - Ireland - History - 20th century; Infrastructure (Economics) - Ireland - History - 21st century
• Altri autori: BoydGary A McLaughlinJohn
• Note generali: First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. 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 - Córas Iompair Éireann and Michael Scott / Sarah Lappin and Una Walker -- 5. Media : America at home - the RTÉ 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 í Mhearáin -- 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: At 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Infrastructure and the architectures of modernity in Ireland 1916-2016
• ISBN: 1-351-92749-3; 1-138-57236-5; 1-315-25225-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154984003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II