ACAHUCH - 2023 Symposium - Prefab and Precut - Introduction

The introduction to ACAHUCH's 2023 Symposium 'Prefab and Precut: Affordable Housing Options in Post-War Australia 1945-1975). With a welcome by Dean of ABP Professor Julie Willis, this is followed symposium convenor 01:10 Professor Philip Goad discussing the genesis for the symposium and the speakers to follow. -- https://acahuch.msd.unimelb.edu.au/home/symposia/prefab-and-precut A one-day symposium that features papers from scholars and heritage practitioners from across Australia that address this issue. Invariably modest in scale, carefully planned for solar orientation, and above all conceived with affordability in mind, these houses offer potential lessons on what might be possible for the future of Australian housing.