Robin Boyd Quotes

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Robin Boyd was a renowned Australian architect, born on January 3, 1919, and passed away on October 16, 1971. His works are characterized by modernist style and have had a profound impact on the Australian architectural scene.

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Famous Robin Boyd Quotes

“The Australian is forcefully loquacious, until the moment of expressing any emotion. He is aggressively committed to equality and equal-opportunity for all men, except for black Australians. He has high assurance in anything he does combined with a gnawing lack of confidence in anything he thinks.”

Confidence Racism Architecture Australia

Book:The Australian Ugliness

Source: The Australian Ugliness

“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 functional, Australia will be as beautiful in its own way as classical Greece.”

Way Country Age Beautiful Beauty Objects Architecture Australia Technological Greece Civilised

Book:Artificial Australia

Source: Artificial Australia

“We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.”

Needs Exciting Architecture Planning Involving

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 effeminate and vaguely immoral.”

Thinking Used Interest Design Architecture Improvement Superficial Immoral Solemn

Book:Artificial Australia

Source: Artificial Australia

“Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.”

Church Views Design Regret Holy Terror Point Of View Architecture I Regret

Book:Artificial Australia

Source: Artificial Australia

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

Men Facts Architecture Australia Old Man Bureaucracy

Book:Artificial Australia

Source: Artificial Australia

“The suburb was the major element of Australian society.”

Elements Majors Architecture Australian Suburbs

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 faces of Australians. Australia is the small house. Ownership of one in a fenced allotment is as inevitable and unquestionable a goal of the average Australian as marriage.”

Men Made Done Faces House Goal Average Architecture Inevitable Australia Ownership Australian Allotments

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 shower of yellow dust or a sudden collapse indicated their presence. Others, like the mosquito and housefly, were less dangerous and more objectionable. The former type influenced structure in minor ways; the latter affected planning to a major degree.”

Way Littles House White Dangerous Type Shapes Degrees Majors Structure Architecture Planning Dust Former Latter Affected Yellow Collapse Minors Showers Insects Ants Australian Mosquitoes

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.”

Ifs World Firsts Cities Citizens Architecture Australia Recreation Adelaide

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 to let the serious business of living proceed without distraction.”

Kind Art Ideas Sides Special Serious Architecture Australia Materialism Distraction Serious Business

Book:Artificial Australia

Source: Artificial Australia

About the Author

Born: January 3, 1919
Died: October 16, 1971
Known for: Architect
Quotes: 11

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