
Herbert Simms
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Like the city's acclaimed Georgian squares, the Simms-designed Corporation flats in particular have stood the test of time, injecting a touch of art deco and modernist glamour to neglected neighbourhoods. This comprehensive guide to the Simms buildings also highlights the many struggles with politicians and bureaucrats Simms and his staff experienced as they did their best to build well-designed, affordable housing for the people of Dublin.
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Simms' legacy lies not just in the beauty of the buildings he designed and their impact on the urban landscape, but in teaching us that housing can be built to last. By telling his story, there can be hope that Irish architecture is treasured rather than treated as disposable. -- Aoife Barry * Irish Independent * There is considerable discussion about the architectural evolution and merits of the schemes designed by Simms and his colleagues in this well-indexed book, but its greatest gift is a renewal of that simple but seeminglyunsurmountable challenge. When this republic was barely solvent our grandparents could deliver enviable social housing: why can't we do more? * Irish Examiner *
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- Intro
- Half Title
- Copyright
- Title
- Epigraph
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1 The Move into the Cities
- 2 Corporation Housing: the first buildings 1877-1913
- 3 A Grand Plan for Dublin: 1914-30
- 4 The 'Million Pound Scheme'
- 5 Herbert Simms: a man with a mission
- 6 The Housing Crisis Reaches a Peak
- 7 The 1939 Inquiry
- 8 The 'Emergency' and War Work
- 9 The Final Projects 1945-8
- 10 What Followed Simms
- Appendices
- A. Flat Complexes 1932-50
- B. Urban and Suburban 'Cottage' Schemes 1929-50
- C. Estates
- Bibliography and Sources
- Acknowledgements
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