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Robin Boyd was Australia's foremost architectural writer and critic from the late 1940s until his death in 1971. He was also a talented architect, designing houses, apartments, commercial and university buildings, as well as exhibits to represent Australia overseas.
This book situates his architecture and writings within the context of post-WWII global architectural discourse and production. A voice from the margins, yet one intimately engaged with contemporary US and European architecture, Boyd's geographic impartiality also drew architectures from Australia and Japan into global dialogue. He also had a local mission: to build an architecture culture and discourse for his own country. But his acuity in design criticism, widely admired at the time, has been overlooked by subsequent historiography. This book will fill that gap - placing Boyd's work and writing into an international context for the first time.
The book is structured into three parts: Dwelling; Discourse and Australia. The first, Dwelling, focuses on Boyd's development of his theoretical ideas based on the laboratory of the single-family house. The second, Discourse, outlines Boyd's fight to find a voice for Australian architecture and create a local pedigree for modernism and finally the third, Australia, focuses on Boyd's commitment to a broader national project and the shaping of Australian identity.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
At the Edge: Robin Boyd and the Challenge of Australian Architecture
DWELLING
1. Living in Australia: The Idea of Home
2. For Every Man His Home: The Repeatable House
3. Platforms and Parasols: The Finding of Form
DISCOURSE
4. Bringing it to the People: Inventing the Discourse of Australian Architecture
5. Voice from the Margins: Infiltrating the Discourse of International Architecture
6. Extending the Modern: Promoting Postwar Japanese Architecture
7. Expos and Exhibitionism: Defining 1960s Architecture Culture
AUSTRALIA
8. The Critic and the Car: Taste, Technology and the Automotive City
9. New World Dilemma: The City and the Bush
10. The Critic and the Capital: The Shaping of Canberra
Conclusion: Against the Dying of the Light: Robin Boyd, Aftermath and Legacy
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Product details
| Published | Jun 11 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781350100572 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Illustrations | 75 bw illus |
| Series | Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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