Putting together the pieces for a new concept in affordable housing

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Putting together the pieces for a new concept in affordable housing


Expatriate Australian architect Jeremy Edmiston will discuss innovative work that has created a new kind of affordable kit housing in a public lecture on Friday 2 June at the University of Technology, Sydney. Mr Edmiston, a UTS graduate and co-founder of the New York firm SYSTEMarchitects, is home in Australia to photograph the firm's latest project - an "extraordinary" house near Port Macquarie made entirely from laser-cut plywood, assembled like a jigsaw puzzle. The three-bedroom Parish House is a computer generated kit home made of 1100 pieces of laser-cut plywood, assembled on site at a cost of less than $250 000. It featured in the Innovators section of the December issue of TIME magazine. SYSTEMarchitects applied a similar rationale to a recent competition submission for a new TKTS (discount theatre tickets) pavilion in New York City, and one for refugee housing in Kosovo, for which the firm designed an easily transportable, simple to construct kit of parts to create housing from prefabricated components. Head of the UTS School of Architecture, Associate Professor Sandra Kaji-O'Grady, said Mr Edmiston would be joined for the UTS lecture by his SYSTEMarchitects partner Douglas Gauthier. After graduating from UTS Mr Edmiston was a Fulbright Scholar and completed a Master of Architecture at Columbia University. He now teaches at City College in New York. He worked for Harry Seidler, Bernard Tschumi and Emilio Ambasz before founding SYSTEMarchitects with Mr Gauthier in 1997. Wednesday 24 May 2006