Title: Stanisic LIVE/WORK
ISBN: 978 187701531 1
Pages: 200
Format: 240 x 240 mm
Price: SGD $60

Text by Anna Johnson
Photography by Patrick Bingham-Hall

The architecture of Stanisic Associates confronts the gritty urban realities of 21st century life and addresses the increasing need for collective housing, thus discarding the entrenched 20th century vision of Australia as the land of the small house. Such commitment by an architectural practice to the implementation of a sustainable urban lifestyle is rare in Australia, where, as Anna Johnson observes, “…a desire for a consequential relationship between architects, the social issues of housing, and the formation of the city, is now only pursued by some architects, and few have sufficient power to radically alter the development of our cities.”

Stanisic Associates have designed apartment blocks in Sydney’s inner-city areas that have provided new ways to live and new ways to work in a decidedly unromantic environment. Their architecture has evolved over the first decade of the 21st century into a climatically responsive and appropriate modernism, a pragmatic and innovative architecture that can be described as ‘Eco-Minimalism.’

STANISIC LIVE/WORK documents this groundbreaking approach to architecture and regenerative planning in Australia, and features the practice’s award-winning built projects and selected unbuilt schemes. Extensively illustrated with conceptual and schematic renderings as well as formal drawings, the book is written by Anna Johnson with photography by Patrick Bingham-Hall.