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Book spread for Gabriel Poole Houses: Poetry in Construction, featuring one of Poole's lightweight sub-tropical Queensland houses, edited by Andrew Mackenzie, published by Uro Publications.
Book spread for Gabriel Poole Houses: Poetry in Construction, featuring one of Poole's lightweight sub-tropical Queensland houses, edited by Andrew Mackenzie, published by Uro Publications.
Gabriel Poole Houses: Poetry in Construction
Gabriel Poole Houses: Poetry in Construction
Book spread for Gabriel Poole Houses: Poetry in Construction, featuring one of Poole's lightweight sub-tropical Queensland houses, edited by Andrew Mackenzie, published by Uro Publications.
Book spread for Gabriel Poole Houses: Poetry in Construction, featuring one of Poole's lightweight sub-tropical Queensland houses, edited by Andrew Mackenzie, published by Uro Publications.
Book spread for Gabriel Poole Houses: Poetry in Construction, featuring one of Poole's lightweight sub-tropical Queensland houses, edited by Andrew Mackenzie, published by Uro Publications.
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Gabriel Poole Houses: Poetry in Construction

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About This Book

Gabriel Poole Houses: Poetry in Construction is a celebration of the life and work of one of Australia’s most inventive and unfettered architectural talents. Poole’s career began in the 1960s and spanned over half a century. While his work resonated with the cultural, environmental and creative concerns of the time, his lightweight, adaptive, and open approach to material use and structural innovation remains highly contemporary and relevant to architectural practice today.

Poole drew deeply from vernacular traditions, yet reinterpreted the classic Queenslander house with an intense focus on lightweight structures and generous spatial strategies. This book brings together a selection of his most innovative houses that are both timely and timeless, embracing permeability and adapting form to climate needs.

Much of Poole’s work is sited within sensitive sub-tropical ecosystems and as such responds with low-impact strategies: elevated structures, prefabricated elements and minimal ground disturbance. Projects such as Tent House and Gloster House are exemplary with each exploring the intersection of enclosure and openness, structure and space, and the careful integration of building and landscape.

Contributors

Glenn Murcutt, Elizabeth Farrelly, Mauro Baracco & Louise Wright, Elizabeth Musgrave, Haig Beck & Jackie Cooper, Tim Bennetton, Bruce Walker, Elizabeth Poole, Lindsay Clare, John Mainwaring, Alex Brown, Peter Hyatt, Andrew Mackenzie.

What You’ll Discover:

  • A celebration of one of Australia’s most inventive and unfettered architectural talents, spanning a career from the 1960s to today

  • A reinterpretation of the classic Queenslander house, with an intense focus on lightweight structures and generous spatial strategies

  • Low-impact strategies for building within sensitive sub-tropical ecosystems: elevated structures, prefabricated elements and minimal ground disturbance 

  • Case studies including Tent House and Gloster House, exploring the intersection of enclosure and openness, structure and space

  • A rich contributor list, with a foreword by Glenn Murcutt, introduction by Elizabeth Farrelly, essays by Mauro Baracco & Louise Wright, Elizabeth Musgrave, Haig Beck & Jackie Cooper, Tim Bennetton, and Bruce Walker, and reflections by Elizabeth Poole, Lindsay Clare, John Mainwaring, Alex Brown, and Peter Hyatt, edited by Andrew Mackenzie

Specifications

  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 232pp
  • Dimensions: 235mm x 280mm 
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9781922601421
  • Publisher: Uro Publications, 2026
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