In Every Dream Home A Heartache: The Great Australian Dream and its architecture
Searching for both architecture and urbanism in the Australian A+U
The August 2007 issue of the sumptuous Japanese magazine Architecture + Urbanism, or A+U, covers recent Australian architecture. The selection of projects is fascinating, the presentation delectable, and the architects involved are drawn from the cream of contemporary Australian practice circa 2006: Wendy Lewin and Glenn Murcutt; John Wardle; Sean Godsell; Donovan Hill; Durbach Block; Iredale Pedersen Hook; Stutchbury and Pape; O’Connor + Houle; Jackson Clements Burrows; Gregory Burgess; Casey Brown; Troppo. Few of the emerging interesting teams in Australia are covered but that’s another story for another publication, another format, I suspect.
As a series of projects, of a certain kind, it’s hard to imagine a higher quality, or perhaps simply more beautiful, range of architecture anywhere.
Respected critic, historian and educator Philip Goad has written numerous books on Australian houses, and here contributes a great overview — seeing the distributed Australian coastal cities as…
