Suffolk Road

1993

Surrey Hills, VIC ∙ Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country

“…Garner Davis completed a series of very elegant houses inspired by the optimistic Modernism of the 1960s, houses whose roofs open up to the light, whose sections are refined to feather edges, and where programme and construction are brought together in a sweet fitting that embraces the principle of parsimony.”

Leon van Schaik, Design City Melbourne, 1st ed. (Chichester: Wiley, 2006), 177.

“The composition is delicately poised … There is a paradox attached to this cool objective elegance in the Melbourne context: there is an affinity with Lindsay Holland (Transition no. 24, Autumn 1988) in plan form and structure that contributes to a ‘cool school’ not usually allowed for in the critical stereotypes.”

Leon van Schaik, “New Work Review: Houses,” Transition, no. 29 (Winter 1989): 55.