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Robin Boyd Biography

Robin Gerard Penleigh Boyd CBE (3 January 1919 – 16 October 1971) was an Australian architect, writer, teacher and social commentator. He, along with Harry Seidler, stands as one of the foremost proponents for the International Modern Movement in Australian architecture. Boyd is the author of the influential book The Australian Ugliness (1960), a critique on Australian architecture, particularly the state of Australian suburbia and its lack of a uniform architectural goal.

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The suburb was the major element of Australian society.

Architecture, Australian, Element, Elements, Suburb

When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects in this country are truly functional, Australia will be as beautiful in its own way as classical Greece.

Beautiful, Beauty, Beginning, Country, Functional, Greece

Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.

Australia, Bureaucracy, Fact, Facts, Men, Old

We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.

Architecture, Exciting, Imaginatively, Needs, Planning

Yet the small house, probably more than anything else that man has done, has made the face of Australia and to an extent the faces of Australians. Australia is the small house. Ownership of one in a fenced allotment is as inevitable and unquestionable a goal of the average Australian as marriage.

Allotment, Australia, Average, Done, Men

Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side to let the serious business of living proceed without distraction.

Art, Australia, Ideas, Immovable, Special

Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.

Design, Holy, Point, Regret, Terrors, Views

Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until a little shower of yellow dust or a sudden collapse indicated their presence. Others, like the mosquito and housefly, were less dangerous and more objectionable. The former type influenced structure in minor ways; the latter affected planning to a major degree.

Borer, Dust, Type, White, Yellow

Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral.

Architecture, Australians, Design, Interest, Thinking

Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens.

Australia, Cities, Citizens, City, Health, Recreation