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    Durbach Block Jaggers

    Aug 03, 2020 4 minutes
    Words by Katelin Butler
    Photography by Tom Ferguson

    There is a new Australian residential architecture that has evolved over the past decade that aptly responds to our climate, natural landscape and social context in playful, joyous and inventive ways. A select few highly influential Australian practices have driven this evolution of Australian design and Durbach Block Jaggers (DBJ) is one of them. DBJ was founded in 1987 by Neil Durbach, who was joined by Camilla Block as director in 1998 and by David Jaggers in 2007. There are subtle regional variations in this wave of residential architecture, but DBJ’s work stands

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