Robin Boyd Quotes

10 quotes in 186 categories

• 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…
• We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.
• 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…
• Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.
• Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.
• The suburb was the major element of Australian society.
• 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…
• 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…
• Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens.
• 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…

Browse Robin Boyd Quotes by Category