Shifting Neighbourhoods: Social housing crises and design in Sydney

A while ago, we shared that our Sydney-based Principal, Andrew Broffman, had been awarded a State Library of New South Wales Summer Fellowship to examine the link between social housing and design in Sydney.

A couple of weeks ago, he snuck in an interview for Sydney breakfast radio and thought we wouldn’t notice. In a short chat with journalist Dominic Knight, Andrew discusses two seminal social housing projects from the 60’s – Harry Seidler’s Stephen Street building in Paddington and Maloney Street in Rosebery.

Andrew reflects on the joy of trawling through newspaper clippings at the library, the potential of architecture to improve lives through simple, considered design moves, and the responsibility of government to defend and fund quality housing for all.

Listen here.