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    REED HOUSE BY BETH GEORGE

    Mar 30, 2020 4 minutes
    Words by Brett Mitchell
    Photography by Benjamin Hosking

    Reed House is an architecture of intimate collaboration. It is intertwined with the life story of the architect Beth George and her clients: her sister Fran (an archaeologist), brother-in-law Mark (whom she has known since their teenage years) and their four daughters. The project involved the collective pursuit of ideas and aspirations via material construction – but also a shared understanding that architecture is a means for accommodating and celebrating the life that goes on within it. The resulting architectural outcome is an armature of experiences: past, present and future.

    The decision to remediate the original and unlisted 1908 home

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    Editor Alexa Kempton Editorial enquiries Alexa Kempton T: +61 3 8699 1000 houses@archmedia.com.au Editorial director Katelin Butler Editorial team Georgia BirksNicci DodanwelaJude Ellison Production Goran Rupena Design Janine Wurfel

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