ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I am deeply grateful that these books have endured and merited a joint edition to bring together 50/60/70 Iconic Australian Houses, published in 2007, and its younger twin, 70/80/90 Iconic Australian Houses, published four years later.

I started out knowing very little about architecture, and regard each chapter, with its attendant research, architect interviews and visits to the buildings, to be my education on the subject. Hence I would like to thank each and every architect for affording me that privilege.

In addition, it took the homeowners to generously open their doors and let us capture the houses and share their stories of commissioning these houses, or living in them, in what many see as the role of custodian.

Since 2006, I have continued to work with photographer Michael Wee, whose images have a new design treatment by Evi O. Ditto Leta Keens, who has edited six of my books with this reworking as a seventh. Having this trusted and talented team makes what I do a great pleasure.

I would also like to thank Murdoch Books; in particular Lou Johnson and Jane Morrow, for having the foresight to give the books another incarnation, and to the production team, including Jane Price, for their steady hands and efficiency.

This book is a precious record – already the dial has shifted with houses represented here ruined by careless and insensitive renovation, and the death of four great Australian architects – Neil Everist, Bruce Rickard, Ken Woolley and Enrico Taglietti. Here, their voices are loud and clear, and it is important that their work, alongside that of others, is able to be referenced and better understood through these pages.

Karen McCartney, May 2019