Editor’s letter
Living in cities for most of my life, I’ve always had a somewhat idealised notion of the concept of ‘isolation’, the word conjuring up images of long summer days and trips away soaking up the beautiful stillness of uninterrupted expanses of rural New Zealand. Isolation didn’t mean physical isolation but a temporary respite from all things urban, and that was a beautiful thing. That was, of course, until it became part of a formative new lingo: a contemporary lexicon we all know too well — quarantine, herd immunity, location of interest. So, what does isolation mean now? What does it mean for design and how we inhabit our homes? It’s in that vein that we put this issue together. The houses we feature cover diverse settings, but of note are the…
