The Iconic Modern Australian Houses books by Karen McCartney have been cleverly re-imagined in this newly redesigned comprehensive book that brings together the best of Australian residential architecture from the past 50 years in one volume. The Design Files with Lucy Feagins
Iconic: Modern Australian Houses 1950–2000 is a fresh, new, and collectable edition of the best residential projects shown at the Museum of Sydney and received well. This classic has been completely redesigned in a new format, and the introduction has been changed. It will interest people new to Australian modernist architecture and those who know it well.
Harry Seidler, Peter Muller, Roy Grounds, Peter McIntyre, Russell Jack, Robin Boyd, McGlashan Everist, Enrico Taglietti, Neville Gruzman, Bruce Rickard, Hugh Buhrich, Ian McKay, Iwan Iwanoff, Ian Collins, Richard Leplastrier, Glenn Murcott, Barrie Marshall, Ken Woolley, Lovell Chen, Wood Marsh, Andresen O’Gorman, Durbach Block, Sean Godsell
About the Author
- British-born Karen McCartney is best known for her interiors, architecture and design work.
- She has written for British Elle Decoration, The Financial Times and The World of Interiors and is the author of the architecture book Perfect Imperfect, published with Murdoch Books in 2016.
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