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.

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.

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

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.

A compact semi reworked with a screened upper level, garden-focused living spaces, and a robust lower-floor material palette tied closely to the landscape.

A coastal house conceived as a landmark object, using classical cues, in-situ concrete, and sandstone to create a durable, monumental domestic form.

Cliff-edge steel and glass house above the Wingecarribee River; Harry Seidler for Peter & Mrs Berman (1996–1999).

Regency villa by John Verge (1835–1839); one of Australia’s finest colonial town houses, now a house museum.

Gothic revival rural estate and house museum; evolved from William Charles Wentworth’s 1803 cottage to a major 19th-century mansion and garden.

Compact urban house with sculptural brick massing by Alexander Symes.