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Making Belfield Space and Place at Ucd

Contributor(s):: Ellen Rowley (editor); Finola O'Kane (editor)
Format:: Hardback,
Publication date:: 30th September 2020
ISBN-13:: 9781910820568

Author Biography

Finola O'Kane is professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy at University College Dublin. Ellen Rowley is an architectural historian, teacher, and writer on twentieth-century Irish architecture.

Description

Richly designed and illustrated, Making Belfield reflects on the making and shaping of UCD to celebrate 50 years of college life at Belfield (Belfield 50). Dipping in and out of recent architectural histories and older and more far flung landscapes, it brings key UCD thinkers on spatial and cultural history together as well as highlighting the Libraries and collections of the university.

Reviews

‘Making Belfield describes the UCD’s campus’s significant international impact on the historiography of the Modern Movement, as well as placing it firmly within Irish cultural and institutional history. Intrinsically significant, the book’s thematic analysis of Belfield as a large-scale Modernist complex is pioneering for Ireland.’
Professor Miles Glendinning, University of Edinburgh, 2020

‘I warmly welcome this most interesting and valuable book on the landscape and architectural history of Belfield. In the preface to my 1999 history of UCD I wrote that I remained acutely aware of how much had yet to be researched and written. Making Belfield is certainly a significant contribution to that history.’
Professor Donal McCartney, University College Dublin, 2020

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