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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-boyd/yet-the-small-house-probably-more-than-anything-else-that-man-has/)

[Robin Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-boyd/)

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## More by Robin Boyd

> [Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-boyd/many-new-churches-i-regret-to-say-can-be-described-from-the-design/)

[Robin Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-boyd/)

> [Yet the small house, probably more than anything else that man has done, has made the face of Australia and to an extent the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-boyd/yet-the-small-house-probably-more-than-anything-else-that-man-has/)

[Robin Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-boyd/)

> [Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-boyd/australia-is-in-fact-an-old-man-s-bureaucracy/)

[Robin Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-boyd/)

> [When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects in this country are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-boyd/when-most-objects-are-truly-functional-this-technological-age-which/)

[Robin Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-boyd/)

> [Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-boyd/solemn-australians-think-that-an-interest-in-design-is-a-superficial/)

[Robin Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-boyd/)

> [We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-boyd/we-need-better-architecture-and-planning-more-imaginatively-exciting/)

[Robin Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-boyd/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-boyd/australia-s-is-a-special-kind-of-philistinism-an-immovable/)

[Robin Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-boyd/)

> [The suburb was the major element of Australian society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-boyd/the-suburb-was-the-major-element-of-australian-society/)

[Robin Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-boyd/)

> [Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until a little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-boyd/insects-influenced-the-shape-of-the-australian-house-some-like-the/)

[Robin Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-boyd/)

> [Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-boyd/adelaide-was-the-first-city-in-australia-if-not-in-the-world-to/)

[Robin Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-boyd/)

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