Author: Andrew Barrie, Rob Gregory, Laura HardingIan Moore commenced his professional career as a structural engineer in his home country of New Zealand, before moving to London. There he working with Ove Arup, then Norman Fos- ter, gaining invaluable experience working on the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. He returned to Sydney in 1983 intent on becoming an architect. By 1990, Ian Moore Architects was born.Moore has since honed an approach to architecture that is remarkably consistent and richly layered. Initially designing expansive villas and dramatic stand-alone residencies in both inner-city and rural locations, Moore’s innate sense of mate- rial discipline and geometric order naturally segued into the design of apartments. A string of award-winning medium and high-density multi-residential developments followed.Each project in this book is a showcase in carefully consid- ered internal planning, with a refined singularity and a clarity that goes to the essence of the house. As fellow architect John Denton writes, “the house sits as an important reference point in an architect’s portfolio. It is close to a poem, in which every line counts.”This edited collection of 26 projects, spanning just over a quarter of a century, is accompanied by essays from Lon- don-based architect and writer Rob Gregory, New Zealand ar- chitectural critic Professor Andrew Barrie, and Sydney-based architect and writer Laura Harding.Houses and Housing 1990–2018 is a celebration of a unique and tailored minimalist aesthetic, complemented by the spare and precise graphic design of Formist founding director, Mark Gowing.ISBN 9780994396686. Uro Publications. hb. 21 X 29.7cm, 352 pages.not yet published
