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Way House by Darryl Way REVISITED

Can we ever really establish where ideas come from? The unlikeliness of this humble house, built in 1975 by architect Darryl Way for his family in the Perth western suburb of Claremont, remains intriguing, even after intimate conversations with the late architect’s family members and colleagues, countless visits to the site and close inspections of originals drawings, notes, files and photographs.

Born in Hong Kong in 1937 and with a transient childhood that took him through the Himalayas to Singapore, Darryl came to Western Australia as a young boarding student at Guildford Grammar School before embarking on his

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