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. — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors. — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
Yet the small house, probably more than anything else that man has done, has made the face of Australia and to an extent the… — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects in this country are… — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it… — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own. — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
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… — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until a little… — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens. — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
