"I'm not really concerned about whether people like it or not," Mitchell said at the time, "because there are a lot of their houses that I don't like." It seemed like the opposite of their last house and, it is said, the neighbours were confused. In 2009 they designed a new home for themselves at Narrow Neck featuring giant pre-cast concrete slabs and sheets of corrugated polycarbonate, with everything set at rakish angles to everything else. "Small but so perfectly formed", people liked to say, mostly assuming this was the quintessential Mitchell & Stout house. The house they designed for themselves in Freemans Bay was a quiet, timbered haven with a kind of "outdoor room" that looked across to the city. Mitchell never stopped proving it in his own work.īy the late 1980s he was living and working with a new partner, the architect Julie Stout. Our architecture may be based on the woolshed, he suggested, but the things we do with it can be sophisticated and surprising. In 1984, he presented a TV series called The Elegant Shed and, with Gillian Chaplin, wrote a book of the same name.
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