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Robin Boyd (
1917 -
1971) was an influential
Australian architect, writer, teacher and social commentator. He, along with
Harry Seidler, stands as one of the foremost proponents for the
International Modern Movement in Australian
architecture.
Boyd was born into the prominent
Boyd artistic dynasty in Australia, with many relatives being painters, sculptors, architects or other arts professionals. He was the younger son of the painter
Penleigh Boyd, and his own son, also named Robin, is an architect. Boyd's first commission, in fact, was a backyard studio for his cousin, the painter
Arthur Boyd.
Boyd first came to notice in the late 1940s for his promotion of inexpensive, functional, partially prefabricated homes incorporating modernist aesthetics. Most of his architectural output was residential. In 1953 he joined forces with
Frederick Romberg and
Roy Grounds to form what would become a significant Melbourne firm, and through the 1950s and 1960s Boyd developed a number of important houses in the regional style, including a 1952 house for Australian historian
Manning Clark.
For many years from 1947 he was director of the
The Age Small Homes Service and influenced many people with his popular weekly articles on the subject. He was also lecturer in architecture at the
University of Melbourne, and visiting professor at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956-57.
Among his nine books is *
Australia's Home (1952), the first substantial architectural history of Australian domestic architecture, and
The Australian Ugliness (1960), a popular and outspoken criticism of prevailing establishment tastes in both architecture and popular culture.
Awards and Honors
Boyd was declared a Life Fellow of The
Royal Australian Institute of Architects and was presented with the
RAIA Gold Medal in 1969. In his honor, the RAIA named their annual domestic architecture award the
Robin Boyd Award.
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