Back to the 60s with a focus on architecture on Arts Thursday

Michael Dysart 1960s

Maisy Stapleton interviews Charles Pickett, joint author of a new publication Designer Suburbs on architect-designed houses in the building boom of the 1950s to 70s. She also talks to Michael Dysart, one of the young generation of architects changing the architectural landscape in this period. Tune in too for some music of the 60s.

Designer Suburbs book jacket

The housing boom of early post war years shaped our ideas about living for half a century and saw the birth of commercially successful project homes creating whole suburbs of small houses on large blocks of land.
Now, in a period of change, the trend is towards high-rise life, in giant urban hubs that are springing up around the city and overblown McMansions that spread across the outer limits areas of our cities. Listen to the ideas that shaped our surrounds in the 1960s with Maisy Stapleton from 10:30am on Arts Thursday Eastside89.7fm on 16 May.