Rock Solid

The enduring partnership of Sydney’s Casey Brown is leading the way in site-specific architecture.

- Karen Mccartney

I FELL IN LOVE with a Casey Brown house once and seriously contemplated a move outside the scope of my financial capability, but it wasn’t until this interview that my instinctive, emotional response to the house made rational sense. “Our understanding of architecture is embedded in history,” says Rob Brown, co-founder of Casey Brown Architecture with Caroline Casey. “We like to reveal layers so that people have a subconscious familiarity with the materials, form or shape. On one hand we are resolutely about the present, but our work resonates with the past and that gives people a sense of recognition.”