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Iconic : modern Australian houses 1950-2000

by Karen McCartney, Michael Wee

This volume provides an illustrated survey of significant Australian residential architecture from 1950 to 2000. It documents the evolution of modernist domestic design through a selection of key projects built across the country during the late twentieth century.

Accession 15445 ISBN 9781760525224 Publisher Murdoch Books
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