Jan Juc Studio traces the layered architectural thinking behind a deceptively spare silver building on Victoria's Surf Coast — the family home of Eldridge Anderson Architects director Jeremy Anderson — through critical writing and monochromatic film photography.
About This Book
At first glance, Jan Juc Studio reads as a modest residential project. Look closer and the building reveals a dense web of precedents: a visit to Kenninji Temple in Kyoto, the prospect-and-refuge qualities of Glenn Murcutt's Jamberoo House, and a sustained engagement with the particular conditions of the Surf Coast. Writer Lucia Amies unpacks the architectural elements with analytical clarity, while Ben Hosking's film-based monochromatic photography resists the saturated gloss typical of residential architecture publishing. The result is a considered monograph that rewards readers interested in how memory, place, and precedent sediment into built form.
Key Features
- 75 pages of architectural analysis and film-based monochromatic photography
- Text by Lucia Amies, edited by Rose Onans; photography by Ben Hosking
- Published by Mess Books, ISBN 9780645586084
What You'll Discover
- How a single building synthesises international precedents — including Kenninji Temple in Kyoto and Murcutt's Jamberoo House — into a locally grounded architectural language
- The role of prospect and refuge as organisational principles in domestic architecture, traced through Jeremy Anderson's own design process
- How monochromatic film photography as a documentary method shifts the reading of a building away from surface material and toward spatial and tectonic qualities
- The relationship between a practitioner's personal inhabitation of a building and the design intelligence embedded within it
About the Author
Jeremy Anderson is a director of Eldridge Anderson Architects, whose work is reflected in the Jan Juc Studio project documented here. The text was written by Lucia Amies and edited by Rose Onans; photography is by Ben Hosking.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 75
- Dimensions: 160 x 230 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9780645586084
- Publisher: Mess Books
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and students with an interest in residential design, precedent-led practice, and Australian architecture publishing.