Stuart Harrison writes about residential architecture again in Forty-six square metres doesn’t normally become a house. This time exploring how the constraints of space often result in the most innovative results. With the largest house in the world and ever-increasing suburban sprawl, we need to consider building smaller and more efficient homes. By showcasing 45 examples of space-challenging housing, including (as the title suggests) a 46m2 empty car park in Surry Hills Sydney, which became a 5-storey 165m2 dwelling with a roof top garden. This exciting collection of homes demonstrates that bigger is not necessarily better.


As well as practicing as an architect at his firm Harrison and White, Stuart Harrison is a Senior Lecturer at the RMIT School of Architecture and Design and co-host of Australia’s only dedicated architecture radio show The Architects on Melbourne’s Triple R. He has also been editor of Architect Victoria, Melbourne Editor of Architecture Review Australia, and regularly writes for these and other publications including Lonely Planet, Monument and the Melbourne Design Guide.