Through the Builder’s Lens: Dublin’s Evolving Streetscapes
Many people have helped create Dublin's unique streetscapes. This book looks at the builders and their projects and draws on the extraordinarily rich photographic archive of one of Dublin's foremost construction companies, G. & T. Crampton, as it explores the evolution of the capital from the Edwardian period to the late 1980s. These images show the changing approaches and fashions as the projects reflected a growing capital city during the twentieth century. The transformation of the city is considered, not just in terms of fine public buildings and impressive commercial premises, but also through many everyday structures providing for the housing, employment, education, entertainment and shopping needs of its citizens.
Ruth McManus
- Four Courts Press Ltd
- 9781846826528
- 320 pages
- €50.00
- Hardback
- Ireland
- History of architecture
