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The
design of the house was a central pre-occupation for the architectural
profession throughout the twentieth century. The huge shift of populations
into urban areas, the destruction of war and mass global migration created
an urgent need for housing in many places. Architecture responded with
a sustained, future-directed, often utopian, discourse about the 'ideal'
home. In this discourse, ‘house’ and ‘home’ developed
a structured metonymy. The concept of 'home' works to circumscribe and
define boundaries for the fundamental entities of the self, the family
and the nation. Yet it was also used to refer to the physical space of
the house, thus 'model' or 'ideal' housing not only referred to the design
of dwelling spaces but also attempted to define how 'model', modern citizens
should live. A number of the papers in this session examine various proposals
for ideal homes, be they interwar Worker's Dwellings in Queensland, postwar
high-rise apartments in Belgium or architect-designed project homes of
the 1960s and 1970s. This determination of 'how to live' also spilled
over into design proposals for the broader contexts of neighbourhoods,
suburbs and cities - issues also examined by a number of authors.
Jo Case
Material Culture in the Relocation of Timber Framed Housing in South-East Queensland
Caroline Denigan
The Self-Build Housing of Men and Others: researching gender and vernacular architecture in Australia
Fredie Floré & Mil
De Kooning
Formes Nouvelles and the Communication of Modern Domestic Ideals in Postwar Belgium
Judith O’Callaghan
The New Suburban Dream: the marketing of Pettit & Sevitt project houses 1961-1978
Judy Rechner
Brisbane’s Interwar House Styles and Who was Responsible?
Lee Stickells
Modernism and the Games Village: suburban experimentation at the VIIth
British Empire and Commonwealth Games, Perth 1962