N Scale Ballywillan, Co Longford.

[Patrick Davey]

Masterpiece!

[Kevin Sweeney]

This is the state of play with my next exhibition titled "The Irish House, 900 to 2026", I have set a deadline of October 1st to have it ready. I'm a bit more than half way there, as I'm planning to have 30 models, from a ring fort to a modern mansion.

The bottom photo shows the development of rural working class housing from 1600 to 1990.

[Camas]

10 minutes ago, Kevin Sweeney said:

This is the state of play with my next exhibition titled "The Irish House, 900 to 2026", I have set a deadline of October 1st to have it ready. I'm a bit more than half way there, as I'm planning to have 30 models, from a ring fort to a modern mansion.

The bottom photo shows the development of rural working class housing from 1600 to 1990.

Really impressive display. Best of success with your exhibition. Looking at your rural housing progression, that book 'Bungalow Bliss' by Jack Fitzsimons comes to mind as a useful resource. 

[Kevin Sweeney]

52 minutes ago, Camas said:

Really impressive display. Best of success with your exhibition. Looking at your rural housing progression, that book 'Bungalow Bliss' by Jack Fitzsimons comes to mind as a useful resource. 

I often think Jack Fitzsimons and Richard Lovett Pearse were the two most influential architects in irish histoy. Fitzsimons stated the bungalow revolution and Lovett Pearse the Palladian revolution. Lovett Pearse designed among others, Castletown House, 9 and 10 Henrietta Street, the Houses of Parliament on College Green and Bellamont House. Lovett Pearse definetly wins on aesthetics.