Model Brick Home

Model Brick Home is the name, for heritage-listing purposes, of a brick-and-tile house in Floreat, Western Australia.

Designed by H. Howard Bonner in 1932, the plans won a competition for the design of an ideal cheap modern brick home; and the house was subsequently built on donated land, from donated materials and labour in 1934.

In the 1930s, Western Australia's Royal Australian Institute of Architects established a Building Revival Campaign, aimed at stimulating the home building industry, which, like all industries, was suffering the effects of the Great Depression.

Following the competition, the campaign sought donations of land, materials and labour, so that houses might be constructed from winning designs.

Also, since Floreat was one of the first Perth suburbs built according to the principles of the garden city movement, the entire streetscape has significance as one of the first in Perth to be subject to planning regulations controlling urban design criteria such as setback.