The critical culture of Irish architecture, so painstakingly developed over the last half century, is now under threat of starvation, writes Shane O’Toole as he looks ahead from Dublin, 1974…
Shane O’Toole writes:
The AR paid a visit to Dublin in 1974 and published a special edition devoted to the city as a case study in urbanism later that year. Dublin was chosen as the medium for putting forward a general proposition about an alternative vision of ‘the modern city’ both because, having lost out to Belfast in the national battle for 19th-century industrial development, it retained more of its earlier city pattern than any other metropolis and, despite a recent orgy of destruction, was about to come into funds comparable to those available to other cities in Europe…..
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