The lavishly illustrated book celebrates the modern architecture and landscape design of the Belfield campus, as editors Finola OKane and Ellen Rowley declare. Packed with a wealth of information, it recounts the evolution and spatial disposition of this brave new world in the suburbs, setting it in the context of university design during the mid-20th century, with detailed descriptions of unashamedly modern buildings by some of the finest architects available as well as the colleges archives and collections. Frank McDonald, Irish Times, Dec 2020 |||| Not only is Making Belfield: Space and Place at UCD, a wonderfully engaging read, but it is also a beautiful publication, filling an important gap in the record of the history, art and architecture of UCD. University Observer, Oct 2020'Making Belfield describes the UCD's campus's significant international impact on the historiography of the Modern Movement, as well as placing it firmly within Irish cultural and institutional history. Intrinsically significant, the book's thematic analysis of Belfield as a large-scale Modernist complex is pioneering for Ireland.' Professor Miles Glendinning, University of Edinburgh, 2020 'I warmly welcome this most interesting and valuable book on the landscape and architectural history of Belfield. In the preface to my 1999 history of UCD I wrote that I remained acutely aware of how much had yet to be researched and written. Making Belfield is certainly a significant contribution to that history.' Professor Donal McCartney, University College Dublin, 2020
