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 seemingly
unsurmountable challenge. When this republic was barely solvent our grandparents could deliver enviable social housing: why can't we do more?
* Irish Examiner *
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 seemingly
unsurmountable challenge. When this republic was barely solvent our grandparents could deliver enviable social housing: why can't we do more?
* Irish Examiner *