Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Dutch architect, of Deventer, Holland, for whom see Sean Rothery, Ireland and the New Architecture 1900-1940 (1991), 203-4. Postma was commissioned by the Irish government in 1934 to design a series of alcohol factories in Cos. Donegal, Louth, Mayo, Monaghan, and Sligo. According to Rothery the factories were the earliest industrial buildings in the International Modern style in Ireland.

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8 work entries listed in chronological order for POSTMA, JAN DIEDERIK #


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Building: CO. MONAGHAN, CARRICKMACROSS, ALCOHOL FACTORY
Date: 1935-38
Nature: New factory in International Modern style for Irish Government. (Ministry of Industry & Commerce)
Refs: IAA, PKS 0046; IB 88, 17 Sep 1936, 778(illus.); Sean Rothery, Ireland and the New Architecture 1900-1940 (1991), 204,Pls.183,184;  Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture:  Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009), 57-59(illus.);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 225.

Building: CO. DONEGAL, LABBADISH (LETTERKENNY), ALCOHOL FACTORY
Date: 1935p
Nature: New factory in International Modern style for Irish Government. (Ministry of Industry & Commerce)
Refs: IAA, PKS 0046; Sean Rothery, Ireland and the New Architecture 1900-1940 (1991), 204

Building: CO. MAYO, CORROY (BALLINA), ALCOHOL FACTORY
Date: 1935p
Nature: New factory in International Modern style for Irish Government. (Ministry of Industry & Commerce)
Refs: IAA, PKS 0046 (Sean Rothery, Ireland and the New Architecture 1900-1940 (1991), 204, may have mistaken Corroy for Convoy, Co. Donegal)

Building: CO. DONEGAL, CARNDONAGH, ALCOHOL FACTORY
Date: 1935p
Nature: New factory in International Modern style for Irish Government. (Ministry of Industry & Commerce)
Refs: IAA, PKS 0046; Sean Rothery, Ireland and the New Architecture 1900-1940 (1991), 204;  Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture:  Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009)
57-59(illus.).

Building: CO. LOUTH, RIVERSTOWN (COOLEY), ALCOHOL FACTORY
Date: 1935p
Nature: New factory in International Modern style for Irish Government. (Ministry of Industry & Commerce)
Refs: IAA, PKS 0046 (includes plans and specifications); Sean Rothery, Ireland and the New Architecture 1900-1940 (1991), 204;  Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture:  Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009), 57-59.

Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, ALCOHOL FACTORY
Date: 1939p
Nature: New factory for Ministry of Industry & Commerce.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0986.

Building: CO. DONEGAL, BUNCRANA, ALCOHOL FACTORY
Date: 1939p
Nature: For Ministry of Industry & Commerce.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0986

Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, ALCOHOL FACTORY
Date: 1939p
Nature: For Ministry of Industry & Commerce.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0986