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Much of July was taken up with a survey of the importance of architects in project homes, with most comments about the extraordinary life and career of Ed Gurney. Regular correspondent Kim Jones: “Thanks for enlightening me on the work of Gurney. Prolific – absolutely! And what a repertoire. Beautiful solid buildings with plenty of variety. I have always admired the cubic stack forms.”

Cowan, considered by some as the godfather of architectural science, summed up the oxymoronic difficulty of combining science and art in architecture in the title of his memoir, A Contradiction in Terms. Nevertheless, a golden era of architectural science began: Alan and Sue Coldicutt in Melbourne, John Ballinger at UNSW, Steve Szokolay in Queensland, and Deborah White in Adelaide.