"Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy." — Robin Boyd

"Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy."

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10 Quotes by Robin Boyd

Robin Boyd has 10 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects…
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…
Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.
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…
Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and…
Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of…
Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and…

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More Architecture Quotes

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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. — Theodore Bikel
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat… — Alvar Aalto
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and… — Alvar Aalto
A picture is worth a thousand words. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split… — Alvar Aalto
Architecture is inhabited sculpture. — Constantin Brancusi
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit… — Alvar Aalto
I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in… — Dan Brown
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases.… — Dan Brown

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