Modern Beach Homes 1950-70 aims to offer insight into a particular arena of post-war architectural modernism in South Australia: the single-family domestic beach house, artistically furnished, and thoughtfully attuned to existing site conditions and natural and scenic surroundings. This exhibition will be a long overdue representation, exploration and celebration of the beach home, while offering up enticing new territory for further study. Its point of departure will be the development of interest in artistic modernist principles of design and to discover, what drove individuals to build these homes. The exhibition will present a thematically oriented display of a select number of beach homes, captured in archival black-and-white and colour photographs, copies of original drawings, newspaper articles published at the time of the home’s completion and descriptive texts.

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Below image: Credit State Library South Australia - Catalog number BRG346/29/166/1