Above: image of a view across the living room of a British House of the Future, circa 1956. The visionary approach of futuristic living 1980, followed the belief that a house was a particular place, which should be suited to its location, able to meet everyday requirements and accommodate its inhabitants individual patterns of use. The one bedroom town house, containing a central garden ajoined within it also consitsted of interiors that included a sunken dining table, plastic niche surrounded dressing room table and a thermostraticaly controlled sunken bath .
The last image is an approved 15 storey office building for the French Alliance on Clarence St. Sydney. The last project and design of widely recognised Australian architect, Harry Seidler. Also shown is the image of Seidler's suburban home, regarded as Australia's most outstanding example of a house built in a Brutalist style. The house which emerged, it's make up and underlying design was totally different and divorced from the traditional way of standard suburban living. It was designed by both him and his wife Penelope Seidler and went on to win the Wilkinson Award, RAIA in 1967.
