A mid-century modern heritage settings

Research to inform design in a mid-century modern heritage settings

The modernity of any  time  cuts  a distinct attitude to being different. To inform several ongoing  design commissions, We undertake research focussed on the principles of managing change as it specifically applies to the architecture currently called mid century modern. The  principles we came up with can be summarised as

Knowledge of European sources

The particular techniques of building modern in Sydney

The distinctive way that buildings were sited, surprisingly sensitive to natural landform and  layed out topographically..

The illustration is the article contributed by Hector Abrahams to the book, Australian Modernism in Architecture and Landscape and Design.

And a current commission of this practice, the seminal Lawrence House by Sydney Ancher, Darling Point , built 1950