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Papers of Robin Boyd
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/64540Photographic prints documenting Robin Boyd's work assembled for the posthumous travelling exhibition. Including: Baker House; Dower House; A. Boyd's studio; Burgess House; Domain Park; various flats; Featherstone-Currey House; Finlay House; Fletcher House; Hegarty House; Kaye House; Lloyd House; Menzies' College; Milne House; Myer House; Ormond College; Tower Hill Museum; Troedel House. Photographers include Mark Strizic. Architectural drawings.115285
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Robin Boyd - late works
No full textRobin Boyd: Late Works unveils the urban and public architectural projects designed by Robin Boyd, one of Australia's most iconic mid-century modernists, in the final decade before his untimely death in 1971. One of the few architects in Australia's history to have become a household name, Boyd rose to prominence as a public intellectual after the release of his book The Australian Ugliness in 1960, a biting attack on what he saw as the debased quality of Australia's cities and design culture. Upon its release, the book drew both condemnation and praise in Australia's media, but in the process gave Boyd a national platform from which to campaign throughout the 1960s for the betterment of Australia's built environment. Concomitant with his public pronouncements during this time, though, Boyd was hard at work attempting to prosecute his vision of a more coherent and contemporary Australian urban environment and culture. This work took the form of building and planning designs, at sometimes vast scales, that run counter to Boyd's reputation as an architect of polite modernist private houses. Robin Boyd: Late Works considers these important but largely forgotten architectural projects alongside his exhibition work, multimedia designs and his writing. Bringing to light material buried deep in the archives of several national institutions, this book documents Boyd's ambitions and struggles to shape Australia's understanding of itself as an urban nation during this time. For Boyd, the 1960s was a turbulent decade of architectural practice that, by the time of his death, had come with thwarted ambitions and high personal cos
Brill's Companion to Ovid, edited by Barbara Weiden Boyd
No full textCasanova-Robin Hélène. Brill's Companion to Ovid, edited by Barbara Weiden Boyd. In: Gaia : revue interdisciplinaire sur la Grèce Archaïque, numéro 10, 2006. pp. 301-304
Brill's Companion to Ovid, edited by Barbara Weiden Boyd
No full textCasanova-Robin Hélène. Brill's Companion to Ovid, edited by Barbara Weiden Boyd. In: Gaia : revue interdisciplinaire sur la Grèce Archaïque, numéro 10, 2006. pp. 301-304
Robin Boyd: The early years 1919 - 1952
No full textThis dissertation examines Robin Boyd (1919-51), architect and writer up to the time he joined Roy Grounds and Frederick Romberg as a partner in 1953. The dissertation concentrates on his family background, training and war service which are of relevance to his writing and architectural design, and considers both the content and direction of his writing on architecture, and his early architectural design. From this it can be seen that many of the themes in his architecture and writing, particularly in The Australian Ugliness and The Great Great Australian Dream, are prefigured or fully developed by 1953 […
"The witness of the student Christian movement: 'church ahead of the church'" by Robin Boyd
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Robin Boyd, The witness of the student Christian movement: 'church ahead of the church' (London: SPCK, 2007)Publisher PD
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No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/58839Boyd was a seminal Melbourne modern architect, product of a celebrated artistic family and partner in Grounds, Romberg and Boyd. He wrote 'Australia's Home' (1952), 'The Australian Ugliness' (1960), 'The Puzzle of Architecture' (1960). In 1973, Patrick McCaughey organised an exhibition at the Newcastle City Art Gallery and the University of Melbourne Gallery of a large collection of photographic prints of a selection of Robin Boyd's important buildings. It was assembled as a posthumous travelling exhibition
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