AUTUMN HOUSE BY STUDIO BRIGHT

Rows of terraced houses make up much of the built character of Melbourne’s inner-north. Anyone who has lived in these parts will be familiar with their decorated facades, their linear plan and their propensity to trade access to daylight and connection to the outdoors for the benefits of density and location. These houses have had a varied history; built to varying degrees of quality by land speculators, they accommodated a diverse community in their early years but became stigmatized as slum housing by the early twentieth century. In the 1970s, groups such as Fitzroy Housing Repair Advisory Service (whose founders included architects Suzanne