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NORTH PERTH HOUSE BY NIC BRUNSDON

Architecture can rarely be made without the conscious use of precedent: past works, preferably of enduring quality, being used by architects as a springboard for new work that responds to its own time. This is part of how architects learn. It is also how local traditions were once established in regionally discrete and often isolated places that achieved slow, incremental improvement. It is important, therefore, when reflecting on Nic Brunsdon’s North Perth House, that it is put into context with

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