On the face of it, designer Tali Roth’s North Caulfield home chimes the faith of Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk who asserted that “we’ll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create”.
His words pulse in the pristine facade of Roth’s flat-roofed, beige-brick 1960s house; one with taut geometries and quiet textures that remind of the post-war impact of a group of émigré Jewish architects who fled Hitler’s Europe for the safe harbour of inner-suburban Melbourne in the 1940s.
Many were educated in
