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Misso House

Location 104 Kilby Road KEW EAST, BOROONDARA CITY Level Incl in HO area indiv sig

[1/1] Misso House, 104 Kilby Road

Statement of Significance

What is Significant?

The residence at 104 Kilby Road, Kew East, constructed in 1961 to a design by Chas H Lacey & Associates (Boileau, Henderson & Lodge), is significant.

How is it significant?

104 Kilby Road, Kew East, is of local historical, architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Boroondara.

Why is it significant?

104 Kilby Road is important in demonstrating the significant phase of architect-designed residential suburban infill in the 'new areas' of Boroondara, such as Studley Park and Kew East during the 1950s and '60s, illustrating the general sense of optimism and aspiration to modernism in the area at the time. (Criterion A)

The house represents the incorporation of expressive structural experimentation into aspirational modernist homes adapted for the general public. (Criterion D)

104 Kilby Road demonstrates aesthetic characteristics of a domestication of the optimistic structural functionalism of the Melbourne School style. Aesthetic characteristics are similar to other Melbourne School houses and include considered glazing details, standard materials and expressed, lightweight structural elements. (Criterion E)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence