Profiles

A Case for Cleeve Court

The following story is one still all too common in the culture of Australian Real Estate. continue reading…

A Pilgrimage to Rose Seidler House

“When designing a house, the contemporary architect thinks of an ‘environment for living’ rather than of empty box-like rooms…. He designs actual spaces in the interior for specific purposes and designs the furnishings and equipment that go into them” continue reading…

Fibro beach houses, a love letter

Constructed all over the country and a calling card of many a sleepy (and not so sleepy) beach town resides the classic Australian beach house. continue reading…

Top Modernist Australian Suburbs – The MA Poll

As an intimate group, we Modernist Australians are always up for a chat about our favourite architects, design and furnishings with like-minded people. It’s in fact the sharing of information that helps us realise we are not alone and which bolsters the cause for greater appreciation for our local Mid-Century treasures, making us all feel warn and fuzzy. continue reading…

Life and times of Anatol Kagan

Modernism enjoyed purely as an aesthetic output is often as far as most home magazines, some vintage traders and even appreciators like to travel. continue reading…

David or Goliath? A Modernist home to suit any budget

There are a myriad of reasons why many of us like Mid-Century Architecture. One of the more philosophical ones is it’s egalitarian basis. continue reading…

Last drinks at the Naval & Military Club

While the woolly jumpers concerned citizens of Melbourne gnash their teeth and flood local papers with tomes of concern over the re-development of the Windsor Hotel in Spring St (a plan which sees a clear and sympathetic restoration of the old dame’s wilted interior/exterior), a mere 10 metres round the corner yet another Modernist building quietly and without fanfare is meeting it’s demise. continue reading…

MA goes Top End

Recently we were lucky enough to escape the oncoming winter for a few days and hit the tropics of Darwin. Having never been to the Northern Territory and only knowing stories about the outrageous humidity and the wrath of Tracy, we were not confident in finding any architecture that we might be able to bring back to you. continue reading…

Heritage tussle in Warilla

Sitting on a prime beachfront headland and centre of a current demolition debate sits an Australian Mid-century beauty the locals like to call ‘The Spaceship House’. continue reading…