Aussie architecture 🏠

Do you know your Art Deco from mid-century modern? Your guide to five popular design eras – Fun little visual guide to some of the common architectural styles you see in Australia. There’s a quiz at the bottom too! I immediately fell in love with the Star Theatre in Launceston. *sigh*

Relatedly, I was interested to read that someone in Ohio has built a “new” Frank Lloyd Wright house from blueprints he drew but never built. Hilariously, the FLW Foundation refuses to classify it as authentically his work… because they built it to modern building codes. I’m not surprised. When we visited Taliesin in 2010, I was shocked by how poor some of the workmanship was. The walls were thin, and there were literally gaps around some of the windows. “How in the world did the family live here in Wisconsin in the winter?” I asked the tour guide. “They didn’t. They had another home in Arizona.” Of course! While some of his ideas were brilliant, his designs don’t always seem especially suited to the realities of how people live.