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Designer suburbs: architects and affordable homes in Australia
Designer suburbs: architects and affordable homes in Australia

Designer suburbs: architects and affordable homes in Australia

 

Judith O'Callaghan and Charles Pickett
$50.00 ($45.44 member price) paperback
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ISBN 978 1 74223 346 8
WINNER! NSW NATIONAL TRUST HERITAGE AWARD 2013 (education, interpretation and community engagement), 272 pages, 250 x 230mm
150 images in colour and B&W
Publisher: NewSouth Books in association with the Faculty of the Built Environment, University of NSW & Powerho
Distributor: NewSouth Books
Published: November 2012

In the 1950s, 60s and 70s architects like Harry Seidler, Robin Boyd, Ken Woolley, Michael Dysart and Graeme Gunn applied their talents to project homes, bringing high-end design to the suburbs.

Backed by Pettit & Sevitt, Merchant Builders and other project builders, architects created small, deceptively simple houses which transformed the look of suburbia. They were not designed to look impressive from the street, but to complement and enhance their setting, to reduce barriers between inside and outdoor living, to maximise the visual and social pleasures of home.

Today, the distance between the architectural profession and suburban housing has never been greater, with Australia?s super-sized, energy-guzzling project homes the biggest in the world.
With photographs by Max Dupain, David Moore, Wolfgang Sievers and Eric Sierins alongside original plans, Designer suburbs explores the relationship between architects, builders and affordable housing since 1900 and the lessons we can learn from twentieth-century designer suburbs.


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