Jesse Adams SteinReally great to see this Murcutt house getting heritage listed: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-05/1970s-farmhouse-in-kempsey-added-to-nsw-heritage-list/102039086
It is a wonderful, subtle design. Touches the earth lightly, as Glenn would say. Well ahead of its time.
I have a strange, minor connection to this house... having visited and stayed there a few times when I was about 11 or 12 years old... and ever since, the spatial memory of that house has become seared in my subconscious, and it makes an appearance when I read novels (as a background setting) - not deliberately, it just is there... as are a few other "memory houses" from my childhood. That house probably spoiled my enjoyment of most other domestic architecture thereafter (other places rarely beat it in terms of quality, peacefulness and ventillation). #architecture #ausarchitecture #glennmurcutt #heritage #domesticarchitecture #kempsey
It is a wonderful, subtle design. Touches the earth lightly, as Glenn would say. Well ahead of its time.
I have a strange, minor connection to this house... having visited and stayed there a few times when I was about 11 or 12 years old... and ever since, the spatial memory of that house has become seared in my subconscious, and it makes an appearance when I read novels (as a background setting) - not deliberately, it just is there... as are a few other "memory houses" from my childhood. That house probably spoiled my enjoyment of most other domestic architecture thereafter (other places rarely beat it in terms of quality, peacefulness and ventillation). #architecture #ausarchitecture #glennmurcutt #heritage #domesticarchitecture #kempsey
