O'Donnell + Tuomey: Selected Works (Paperback)

~ (Author), John Tuomey (Author), David Leatherbarrow (Introduction), Billie Tsien (Foreword), Tod Williams (Foreword)
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Introduces an Irish firm whose work strikes me as poetic, humane and cogent. . . . My bet is that we'll be hearing a lot more from them. Remember the name: O'Donnell + Tuomey. -- Art + Auction, April 2007

O'Donnell + Tuomey have brought a wealth of exciting buildings to the Emerald Isle for the past 17 years... an arresting collection of colour photography, plans and drawing. -- RIBA, Nov. 2006

The latest book is a necessary pictorial supplement to Architecture, Craft and Culture, and one should not have them apart. . . . When looking for images of contemporary Ireland at its best, refreshed by new-found wealth and confidence, one should put this book at the top of the pile. And O'Donnell + Tuomey should get its Stirling Prize one day soon. -- The Architects' Journal (UK), March 2007

Product Description

In today's Ireland, it's not only the economy that's booming. Dublin-based architects O'Donnell + Tuomey have brought a wealth of exciting buildings to the Emerald Isle for the past seventeen years. Their striking modernist works show their appreciation for Ireland's rich cultural, historic, and civic identity without falling into the trap of typical pitched roofs, gables, slate, and brick. Instead the firm chooses less conventional but more fitting materials that seem to express something not quite visible about their sites. O'Donnell + Tuomey, the first monograph on the firm, presents fifteen of their institutional and residential projects in an arresting collection of color photography, plans, and drawings. The book includes the controversial Irish Pavilion at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Ranelagh Multidenominational School, the Irish Pavilion at the 2004 Venice Biennale, and their recent Glucksman Gallery at the University College Cork, which was one of six buildings shortlisted for the 2005 Stirling Prize.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press; 1 edition (November 9, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568986017
• ISBN-13: 978-1568986012
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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