For many Australians, the idea of a beach house, the archetypal shack, is a memory, a reality, an aspiration or all of the above. For American architect, Andrew Geller during the 1950’s and 60’s, designing quirky beach houses was a passion.

A Thriving Modernism takes the reader through the lives and works of two of the preeminent architects in the USA today. Wendall Lovett (1922- ) and Arne Bystrom (1927- ) both come from Seattle and have been notable contributors to the Modernism movement in architecture, particularly in residential architecture.