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Writer’s House in Caulfield
Contemporary Addition to Australian Villa: Architecture – design by Branch Studio Architects
31 Jan 2017
Writer’s House
Design: Branch Studio Architects
Location: Caulfield, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Writer’s House

Located 10km south-east of Melbourne, Caulfield south is a suburb home to a diverse range of architectural styles from Edwardian weather-board to Californian bungalow to red & orange clinker brick.

Alarmingly – it is visually evident to see an increasing trend of these original housing styles being demolished to make way for large, two storey modern housing typologies. These are often conceived as mock – neo-Georgian or rendered triple-fronted brick veneer.
Around the 1960`s and 70`s a number of European trained architects such as Ernest Fooks began designing a series of superb international modern style inspired houses in and around the Caulfield and wider area. A protégé of Fook`s ? Michael Richard Ernest Feldhagen also completed a number of exemplar international modernist style singular residences and mutli-residential flats around the same period.

Writer`s house is an alteration and additional to an existing orange brick veneer residence that was originally designed in the late 1960`s by Michael r e Feldhagen. The house was originally built for the current occupants grandparents who ...