Dublin's Bourgeois Homes: Building the Victorian Suburbs, 1850-1901

ISBN-13: 9781472471727 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 164 str.

Susan Galavan

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In 1859, Dubliners strolling along country roads witnessed something new emerging from the green fields. The Victorian house had arrived: wide red brick structures stood back behind large front lawns. Over the next forty years, an estimated 35,000 homes were built in the fields surrounding the city. Distinguished by their elaborate entrances and wide granite staircases, Dublin produced its own unique version of the Victorian house form. Today, they are some of the capital s most highly valued structures, and are protected under strict conservation laws. This book is the first in depth analysis of Dublin s upper middle class homes. Using measured surveys, photographs, and contemporary drawings and maps, it analyses a range of premium houses in three different districts: Ballsbridge, Rathgar and Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire). It explores their architectural characteristics: from external form to plan type, and detailing of materials. Taking the reader behind the facade to the interior spaces within, it reveals how domestic space reflected the lifestyle of Dublin s Victorian bourgeoisie. Focusing on the work of three entrepreneurial developers, it follows in their footsteps as they speculated in house building: signing leases, acquiring plots, and sourcing bricks and mortar. It shows how house design evolved over time, as bay windows pushed through facades and new lines of coloured brick were introduced. Comparisons are made with similar house types in Britain, showing the unique characteristics of the Dublin house form. In this analysis of the planning, design and execution of Dublin s Victorian bourgeois homes, this book is an original contribution to the history of an important city in the British Empire."

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Susan Galavan is a qualified architect and holds a first class Masters degree from University College Dublin and a PhD in architectural history from Trinity College Dublin. Her doctorate was a multidisciplinary examination of Dublin’s Victorian domestic architecture, funded by a three-year scholarship from the Irish Research Council. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Architecture, University of Leuven, Belgium.