Glass House by Bill and Ruth Lucas

Architects who build their own houses are a bit like scientists who experiment on themselves. Their aspirations are high, but there is invariably no one else for them to experiment on, no one to fund it and no one who believes in the results it might deliver.

Architect Bill Lucas was born to experiment, and the Glass House in Castlecrag, on Sydney’s Lower North Shore, was an experiment in living he had been working toward for 10 years. It was co-authored (so to speak) with architect Ruth Harvey Lucas, his wife and partner, who had