‘Green Shift on the Emerald Isle’ ‘The Rise of an Environmental Consciousness in Irish Architecture 1975-2003’

Cian O’Carroll
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2010
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th and 21st Century

10,000 words

This dissertation traces the development of green architecture in Ireland from 1975-2003. The study examines the subject from early research into increased energy independence of building to popular professional engagement with the issues of green architecture. As no history or account of green architecture internationally exists, a literary review of architectural publications on the subject is used to compose a history of environmental concerns in architecture. This is appropriate for the purposes of contextualising Irish green architecture. To characterise debate in Irish architectural practice the professional body’s journal is drawn on throughout, having been exhaustively studied from 1987-2004. The concern with green architecture is based on a combination of both positive and negative evidence in the professional body’s journal.

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‘Green Shift on the Emerald Isle’ ‘The Rise of an Environmental Consciousness in Irish Architecture 1975-2003’