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When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects in this…
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We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.
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Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to…
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Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.
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Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.
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The suburb was the major element of Australian society.
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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…
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Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until…
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Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its…
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Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to…
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Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until…
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An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
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