Prior to working for Erno Goldfinger and then joining the renowned 'New Brutalist' practice of Lyons Israel Ellis (where he later became the fourth partner), the architect David Gray was commissioned in the mid-fifties to build a small family home in Lowestoft. Designed when still a student at The Architectural Association School in London and subsequently built in 1957 a year after receiving his Diploma, the house was immediately recognised by Gray's contemporaries as a significant post-war modernist building . Appearing on the January 1959 cover of House and Garden under the heading 'Small House of the Year' it should have remained as a benchmark example of early British post-war design. But sadly, when somebody from English Heritage tried to visit the building in the early eighties with a view to getting a Grade II listing they were dismayed to find that it had been destroyed to make way for a larger home.

This book presents the first comprehensive view of the house since the magazine articles of the fifties and includes essays by noted architects Neave Brown, Kit Evans and Adrian Gale as well as an explanatory piece by David Gray himself who sadly died in March 2014 aged 83.