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Australian houses, from architectural masterpieces to suburban family homes, Victorian terraces, mid-century marvels, coastal shacks, city apartments, and everything in between.
Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.
Award-winning Australian interior design, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top designers.
In depth features on Australia’s most beautiful gardens and landscape design.
Studio visits with Australia’s most talented creatives, from artists to architects, ceramicists to stylists, furniture makers to lighting designers.
Studio visits with Australia’s top artists, and unmissable art exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and beyond.
Weekly recipes and meal ideas from our favourite cooks, authors and foodies.
Unique travel destinations, design-led accomodation and day trip ideas in Australia and New Zealand.
Australian houses, from architectural masterpieces to suburban family homes, Victorian terraces, mid-century marvels, coastal shacks, city apartments, and everything in between.
Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.
Award-winning Australian interior design, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top designers.
In depth features on Australia’s most beautiful gardens and landscape design.
Studio visits with Australia’s most talented creatives, from artists to architects, ceramicists to stylists, furniture makers to lighting designers.
Studio visits with Australia’s top artists, and unmissable art exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and beyond.
Weekly recipes and meal ideas from our favourite cooks, authors and foodies.
Unique travel destinations, design-led accomodation and day trip ideas in Australia and New Zealand.
Today we get a sneak peek at some of Perimeter Books favourite Design and Architecture books as part of their Required Reading series. Remember to leave a comment before Thursday at 10pm to go into the draw to win an exciting handpicked bundle of books from Dan and Justine at Perimeter! - Jenny x
Obviously, design and architecture represent a huge topic of interest here at Perimeter. They’re are also two fields that attract some of the finest in book design and publishing sensibilities the world over. For today’s post, we’ve hand-selected a suite of six lovely publications spanning various disciplines, continents and practitioners, from Tokyo architectural duo SANAA to brilliant Parisian designer and typographer Fanette Melier.
Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa: SANAA HOUSES
This beautiful collection of housing projects by SANAA (aka Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa) from their major exhibition at MUSAC in Spain offers a fascinating insight into the duo’s lovely mergence of unassuming aesthetics and complex, lateral ideas. Beautifully published by Actar (Barcelona).
Karel Martens – printed matterdrukwerk
An incredible survey of the printed work of master Dutch designer, typographer and educator Karel Martens, who recently completed a brief residency and exhibition at Monash University. Featuring French-folded pages and various gatefolds, the stunning printed matter is a treat on the senses. Arrives courtesy of the brilliant Hyphen Press (London).
Un Sedicesimo 11: Fanette Mellier – Patch-word
CLIP STAMP FOLD: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines
As its title suggests, CLIP STAMP FOLD: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X to 197X is a vast chronicle of the little, independent architectural magazine phenomenon that exploded in the 60s and 70s. At nearly 700 pages and featuring facsimiles of around 70 magazines, this is a mind-boggling underground compendium. Thanks to Spanish publishers Actar.
Yoshiji Takehara – Residential Architecture
Gas Book 24: Hideki Inaba “~Newline”
Feeling inspired yet? Hope so!
- Perimeter x
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