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Barry, Interesting comment you make. I've just found Harry Seidler and Associates brilliant website, and the earliest house they show is 1948, Rose Seidler house. Unornamented brick houses often with curved fronts abound in Australian suburbs developed I guess 1930s to 50s. Must read 'Ornament and Crime'! Nobody yet has helped me with the odd phrase 'lurch merchant'... best from Max Quoting Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>: > Max, Thanks for posting that quite amusing and very readable found text. > I wonder if those involved in the pre-production of the film didn't have > the Austrian/Australian architect Harry Seidler in mind, who could be said > to have transmitted the un-ornamented look of Adolf Loos' buildings and > certainly shared with him an interest in social architecture. Whether any > of the casting crew wanted to invoke Loos' famous 1908 essay "Ornament and > Crime", which references Papuans, may never be ascertainable. Barry > ------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au