The utility and aesthetics of landscape: a case study of Irish vernacular architecture

Dougal Sheridan; Deirdre McMenamin

The utility and aesthetics of landscape: a case study of Irish vernacular architecture

Dougal Sheridan
, Deirdre McMenamin

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Abstract

This paper investigates the utilitarian or everyday relationships to landscape evident in the interlocking of land use practices, spatial strategies, and built structures in the context of rural Ireland. Primary research in the form of spatial documentation of landscape strategies deployed in farm buildings, marine structures, mill buildings, and limekilns are presented and analysed, revealing landscape’s role as an instrumental element in these configurations, not merely a setting. Generally, aesthetic interpretations of these structures and configurations are concerned with the qualities of their vernacular form as typology and their scenic relationship to landscape. A performative reading of vernacular architecture/landscape configurations presents a counterpoint to this discourse, and informs a re-articulation of their aesthetic/ethical interpretation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Unknown Host Publication
Publisher	All Ireland Architecture Research Group
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - Jan 2013
Event	All Ireland Architectural Research Group Second Annual Conference - Limerick Duration: 1 Jan 2013 → …

Conference

Conference	All Ireland Architectural Research Group Second Annual Conference
Period	1/01/13 → …

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 14 Life Below Water
SDG 15 Life on Land

Keywords

Vernacular structures
rural Irish landscape

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