Aus-ugliness (Reprise)

A recurring architectural theme that seems to get wheeled out here every few years or so:

According to Philip Drew: "We haven't engaged with this country and its limitations ... and we haven't engaged with it visually, in terms of creating an architecture which is sympathetic, which builds on the visual qualities of both the flora, the weather and the land itself."

From Glenn Murcutt: "We think we live in the best housing in the world because we own our own house. It's appalling housing, it's appalling spatially. It's not architecture, it's merchandise. If I took it in personally, I'd die.

"I showed some Danes what's going up out along the roads to Castle Hill, Windsor, and I've never seen anything so depressing as these bloated, overly sized, terrible houses, built on the tiniest blocks in the traditional subdivision patterns, which is just nonsense. It's a total waste of land, not to mention resources, and I think people can only be depressed in this environment. It's terrible stuff."

More at The Sydney Morning Herald. The original on Aus-ugly. Via Super Colossal.