Sat 12 Dec · 5pm
Mona Vale Performance Space · Mona Vale
Anthony Burke on Pettit + Sevitt modernist homes
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Join us for a special evening with Grand Design Australia's Anthony Burke, interviewing author and publisher Kathryn Franco about architecture, design and the story of an Australian mid-century housing icon.
Date: Saturday 12 December
Time: 5-7pm
Location: Mona Vale Performance Space (Cnr of Bungan St and Mona Vale Rd Building located within Mona Vale Public School)
Tickets: $45
The illustrated history of influential Australian project home builder Pettit + Sevitt.
Founded in Sydney in 1961, Pettit & Sevitt were pioneers of a burgeoning project home industry. Their mission was to make it possible for Australians to buy an architect-designed home at a price they could afford. This became an important modernist movement that shaped how Australians built their homes and thought about design.
Working with five of Australia's most renowned architects including Ken Woolley, Michael Dysart, Russell Jack, Neil Clerehan and Harry Seidler, they created homes that were modular, functional and beautiful in their simplicity.
Pettit & Sevitt display villages became weekend attractions and their houses won numerous architectural awards. They introduced people to the possibility of design as part of everyday life and reflected a growing confidence in Australian domestic architecture. Their houses, and those of their contemporaries, became associated with what would be known as the 'Sydney School', a loosely defined group of architects whose work embraced natural materials, economical spatial…
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When is Pettit + Sevitt The Modernist Project with Kathryn Franco and Anthony Burke?
Sat 12 Dec 2026, 5pm.
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Mona Vale Performance Space, Mona Vale, NSW.
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