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Residential (RES) Houses

Universal home ownership has been a goal of Australians and Australian governments since the 1920s when Australian Prime Minister, John Bruce, declared the “if you give a man a mortgage he will never become a Bolshevik”. Flat (or apartment) dwellers were seen as being licentious, immoral and “un-British” by the popular press, reinforcing the government’s desire to house the majority in detached houses in which they had a financial stake. Ownership of detached single-family houses is still the desired aim of most but, increasingly, rising costs of housing and a more mobile younger generation have seen the rise in popularity of higher density apartment living and such housing forms around a third of new housing in the two largest cities of Sydney and Melbourne.

The post-World War 2 period saw the rise of regional modernisms as returned servicemen architects carved a new world order out of the suburban landscape. Melbourne architects explored non-rectilinear geometry and coloured lightweight claddings and, in Sydney, architects related their houses to the cheaper, steep, bush-clad sites around the harbour. The humid tropics of northern Australia informed the architecture of Brisbane architects as they sought to adapt modernism to the realities of humid climates.

Middle class house owners in the major cities were offered mass-produced, architect-designed “project homes” of differing configurations to suit different size families and sites. The clear, simple planning and the use of minimal, logical construction and utilising the economies of scale, modernism was made available to the discerning public.

(Editor working party: Dr Scott Robertson)

Simpson-Lee House I – 1957

February 2, 2019 by DA

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Posted in: NSW Register, Register Australia, Residential (RES) Houses Tagged: 1950s, Arthur Baldwinson, Booth & Peters, Houses, Sydney

Harry and Penelope Seidler House, 1967, NSW

August 6, 2017 by DA

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Posted in: NSW Register, Register Australia, Residential (RES) Houses Tagged: 1960s, Architect House, Harry Seidler, Houses, Penelope Seidler

Johnson House | 1963 | NSW

June 30, 2017 by DA

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Posted in: NSW Register, Register Australia, Residential (RES) Houses Tagged: 1960s, Architect House, Peter Johnson

Holland House | 1960-62 | NSW

June 30, 2017 by DA

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Posted in: NSW Register, Register Australia, Residential (RES) Houses Tagged: 1960s, Houses, Neville Gruzman, Sydney

Glass House (Lucas House) | 1957 | NSW

June 30, 2017 by DA

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Posted in: NSW Register, Register Australia, Residential (RES) Houses Tagged: 1950s, Architect House, Bill Lucas, Noni Boyd, Ruth Lucas, Sydney

Hillman House | 1948-9 | NSW

June 29, 2017 by DA

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Posted in: NSW Register, Register Australia, Residential (RES) Houses Tagged: 1940s, Henry Epstein, Houses, Max Dupain, Sydney

Windy Dropdown | 1948 | NSW

June 12, 2017 by DA

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Posted in: NSW Register, Register Australia, Residential (RES) Houses Tagged: 1940s, Sydney, Sydney Ancher

Rickard House II | 1962 | NSW

June 12, 2017 by DA

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Posted in: NSW Register, Register Australia, Residential (RES) Houses Tagged: 1960s, Bruce Rickard, Houses, Max Dupain, Sydney

Jack House | 1955-56 | NSW

June 11, 2017 by DA

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Posted in: NSW Register, Register Australia, Residential (RES) Houses Tagged: 1950s, Architect House, Houses, Pamela Jack, Russell Jack, Sydney, Tim Linkin

Muller House | 1955 | NSW

June 11, 2017 by DA

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Posted in: NSW Register, Register Australia, Residential (RES) Houses Tagged: Architect House, Houses, Max Dupain, Peter Muller, Sydney

Richardson House | 1955-56 | NSW

June 11, 2017 by DA

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Posted in: NSW Register, Register Australia, Residential (RES) Houses Tagged: 1950s, Houses, Max Dupain, Peter Muller, Sydney

Williamson House | 1952-3 | NSW

May 30, 2017 by DA

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Posted in: NSW Register, Register Australia, Residential (RES) Houses Tagged: 1950s, Harry Seidler, Houses, Max Dupain, Sydney

Buhrich House II | 1968-72 | NSW

May 29, 2017 by DA

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Posted in: NSW Register, Register Australia, Residential (RES) Houses Tagged: 1970s. NSW, Houses, Hugh Buhrich, Michael Wee

Prevost House | 1937 | NSW

May 28, 2017 by DA

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Posted in: NSW Register, Register Australia, Residential (RES) Houses Tagged: 1930s, 1950s, Architect House, Houses, Prevost & Ancher, Sydney, Sydney Ancher

Audette House | 1953 | NSW

May 23, 2017 by DA

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Posted in: NSW Register, Register Australia, Residential (RES) Houses Tagged: 1950s, Houses, Michael Wee, Peter Muller, Sydney, video

Badham House | 1960 | NSW

May 21, 2017 by DA

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Posted in: NSW Register, Register Australia, Residential (RES) Houses Tagged: 1960s, Ancher Mortlock Murray & Woolley, Bryce Mortlock, Houses, Ken Woolley, Stuart Murray, Sydney, Sydney Ancher

Lochhead House | 1965 | NSW

May 18, 2017 by DA

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Posted in: NSW Register, Register Australia, Residential (RES) Houses Tagged: 1960s, Housing, Jack Allen, Keith Cottier, Sydney

Summerhayes House | 1961 | WA

May 6, 2017 by DA

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Posted in: Early Fiches, International Fiches, Register Australia, Residential (RES) Houses, The Modern House, WA Register Tagged: 1960s, Geoffrey Summerhayes, Perth

Lyons House | 1967 | NSW

April 28, 2017 by DA

Posted in: International Fiches, NSW Register, Register Australia, Residential (RES) Houses, The Modern House Tagged: 1960s, Lyons House, Noni Boyd, Private Residence, Robin Boyd, Sydney

Palmer House | 1960 | NSW

April 14, 2017 by DA

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Posted in: NSW Register, Register Australia, Residential (RES) Houses Tagged: 1960s, Allen & Jack, Sydney
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