The architect setting an example in the suburbs with her award-winning home | juliepower
Over lunch, she gives great chat. She doesn’t like the smell of fish, a challenge for her growing up in a family of fish-loving Maltese migrants.
She picks at the Scotch fillet, saying she is a grazer who eats small amounts rather than a wolfer-downer like me. Bad luck for her; the fillet is delicious.The local red wine, a Sangiovese from Collector, is so good that it sends me Googling to buy some later. Qantas’ staff discounts also underwrote five overseas trips, including to Pakistan, a trip that solidified her “love of people and how people live and build”.
“From the moment she said that, I couldn’t get it out of my head,” says Battisson. “I knew suddenly that [architecture] was what I wanted to do.” With so few homes designed by architects, a constant theme for Battisson is that suburbs are full of buildings that have little to do with the people who will live there, the Country on which they are located, and the climate they will endure.Battisson says the most powerful thing about her work designing houses in the suburbs is that they start a conversation.
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