Curated Australian residential precedents

A foundational work of Australian organic modernism.

One of the earliest major statements of international-style domestic modernism in Australia.

A landmark late-modern / brutalist house and one of the most important architect’s own houses in the country.

A late modern Castlecrag house by Hugh and Eva Buhrich.

Significant not only as a house, but as a fusion of modernist domestic architecture, art patronage and museum culture.

The clearest early manifesto of postwar international modernism in Australia.

Mountain garden house in the Blue Mountains; layered pavilions and careful engagement with cool-climate bushland.

Included because it is not just a fine Boyd house, but a major Canberra modernist work with clear heritage recognition and a strong intellectual-cultural afterlife.

Coastal ‘magney’ house on the NSW South Coast; Glenn Murcutt’s response to wind, sun and surf.

Important for its structural expression, dramatic butterfly roof and reinvention of the Australian holiday house.

A multi-level urban home that adapts industrial traces into a light-filled domestic sequence of courtyards, balconies, exposed brick walls, and a skylit void.