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Architecture Quotes by Robin Boyd
- 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…
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- I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan
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- We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the… — Alvar Aalto