Beach shacks have long been isolated and precarious. What we find charming today was once considered ‘fringe-dwelling’, separated from cities along racial and economic lines.

But the AND has not been the only dictionary committed to identifying the Australian vernacular. In fact the idea for a truly Australian dictionary had been mooted since the 1960s, although it ...

What we now call “architecture” has been associated with Australian beaches for millennia ... Yet, that very isolation and precarity, their unique vernacular style, is also what makes these ...