A house could simply be defined as “a building for human habitation”; but a house is also a home, with all the associations that carries with place, people and culture. Whatever it’s meaning, the house in its various forms has undergone dramatic changes over the past 100 years, across Australia and abroad. Its capacity to deliver basic amenity has developed and the impact the house as home has on society and our cities is fundamental to the way we plan for the future.
The 2015 Design Speaks: Housing Futures symposium was held at the National Gallery of Victoria last month, on 31 July. It invited both local and international architects and theorists to consider the influence that residential architecture has on our cities and explored how we might adapt our housing for future needs.