SEED HOUSE BY FITZPATRICK + PARTNERS

There is something exciting about architects designing their own houses and unsettling the established triumvirate of visionary client, inspired architect and accomplished builder. And where better to practise this rare form of architecture than Castlecrag, on the lower North Shore of Sydney. Once home to Walter Burley and Marion Mahony Griffin, who designed their own house there after planning the entire suburb, Castlecrag and its environs has hosted a rollcall of adventurous house-building architects – there are houses designed by Hugh Buhrich, Paul Frischknecht, Donald Maclurcan, and Bill and Ruth Lucas, to name a few, and a Gordon M. Jenkins house that is undergoing a renovation by Peter Tonkin