Patricia Callan: The New Modernist House
Patricia Callan + David Ellison
Queensland Terrace, slq
Regular Program
1082
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#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
If you, like the BWF team, are a compulsive collector of mid-century furniture, don’t miss this session with Patricia Callan, who literally wrote the book on modernist houses. Considering how these iconic homes might be restored and renovated while preserving their original character, The New Modernist House features stunning designs by premier architects, updated with a twenty-first-century gloss.
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Patricia Callan
Geelong native, Patricia Callan, was raised in a suburban, architect-designed house and pursued studies in Sculpture and Design in Melbourne in the 1990s. In 2008 she created Modernist Australia, a website now social media presence, to highlight local Mid-Century architecture being summarily lost in Australia’s heated housing market.
Patricia has appeared on ABC radio, The Design Files and Fairfax publications to champion Mid-Century Modernist architecture from a layman’s perspective. The New Modernist House is her first book.
David Ellison
David Ellison is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Languages, and Social Science at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. His research focuses on the literary and cultural histories of domesticity. Publications include ‘On Discomfort: Moments in a Modern History of Architectural Culture, co-edited with Andrew Leach (Ashgate,2016), ‘Shriek and Hum: Industrial Noise and Productivity’ in the Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Sound Studies (University of Edinburgh Press, 2024), and ‘Oh, the shame of it: The trap of rational recreation’ (Griffith Review 81)
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