Public Architecture in Ireland, 1680-1760
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre BA/ Yale University Press
Published: December 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780300090642
Subjects: Architectural structure & design; History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; 17th-18th Century Architecture; Public Buildings Architecture; Architecture; History - General; International Architecture - British; Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; Architecture / History; 17th century; Ireland; Public architecture; Public buildings
Description: "This book examines the public architecture of Ireland from 1680 to 1760, a crucial period during which the country undertook the combined tasks of recovering from war and constructing a new and stable society. New buildings, and new types of buildings, were needed to express and sustain this society.

Architectural historian Edward McParland explores the role of public architecture in this enterprise, focusing on public buildings as works of architecture and art, while also discussing the political, social, and economic contexts in which they were built. More than one hundred specially commissioned photographs by David Davison beautifully document this cultural process."--BOOK JACKET.