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Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, (have you ever tried to define the character of our city?)
An attempt to define Melbourne's character. Boyd sketches a history of Melbourne's architectural periods. He muses on the importance of public taste as necessary for periods of architectural flourish. He thinks Australia is in a "trough between the waves of progress."Typewritten, foolscap, 5 pagesmelbourne, urban conservation, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, Architecture in Melbourne
This summaries the key points of the recently held National Architectural Convention, the first of its kind to be held in Australia, which brought many visiting architects.Typewritten, foolscap, 3 pagesSeveral small ink correctionsarchitecture melbourne; national architecture convention; century of architecture; building industry productivity; city plan for melbourne; australian style; school of architecture melbourne university; international students, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, Sick Cities by Mitchell Gordon
Boyd reviews Mitchell Gordon's Sick Cities. He opens with a scathing description of American urbanism: the skyscraper and the automobile in a fight to the death, and a culture unwilling to engage with a discussion of urbanism. Boyd presents Gordon's book as a non-technical and non-partisan contribution to the new field of American urbanism, focussed on the functional problems (sprawl, traffic, squatting, air pollution) rather than visual ugliness. He commends Gordon's book as 'good, meaty [and] helpful' to city administrators and city lovers everywhere.Book Review (Mitchell Gordon)Typewritten, quarto, 3 pagesScribbled out sections on pages 1, 2 and 3; addition of notes in pages 2 and 3.mitchell gordon, sick cities, urban planning, thomas jefferson, john f. kennedy, the american way, racial segregation, suburban sprawl, air pollution, urbanism, traffic, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Script, Robin Boyd, University of the Air. Design in Australia 7. Cities, 1964
Robin Boyd was involved in creating several TV series for the ABC University of the Air. 'Design in Australia' was an eight part series. (Items D184-D193 contain all the manuscripts except part six titled 'Communications'.) In Part 7, Boyd begins by discussing the difference in cities, including age, population density and colours across Australia, Europe and America. Boyd discusses individual streets compared to the whole city and how the two are ultimately different and unique. He remarks that in Australia, the word 'city' is used to mean the whole 'complex' of city and suburbs, "a pattern reflecting free personal spending and yet a tight public purse". Boyd references Canberra as the Australian domestic dream come true. "Canberra is genuine Australian". He notes that the making of cities is not just a question of money. It's a question of priorities.This is a draft script for the ABC television program 'University of the Air', subtitled 'Design in Australia', broadcast in 1965.Typewritten (c copy), foolscap, 13 pagesuniversity of the air, design in australia, robin boyd, town planning, zoning, canberra, brasilia, punjab, cities, suburbs, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Functional object - Appliance, Juice- O-Mat
The Boyd family recall how Robin Boyd loved gadgets for their beautiful industrial design and their functionality.Juice-O-Mat. Metal handle on right-hand side, metal squeezer on top. Cream coloured body to hold cup. When the handle pulled back the fruit can be inserted.On base: SINGLE-ACTION Juice-O-MAT. US CAT NO 462-C. Rival MFG. CO Kansas City MO. U.S.A.gadget, walsh st appliances, robin boyd, ohm2022, ohm2022_11 -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Functional object - Turntable
Robin Boyd had the sound system put in by a friend who ran the iconic Thomas’ Music in the city of Melbourne. The Boyd family thinks that Robin designed the facade and logo for Thomas’ Music. Penleigh Boyd recalls "there was no 'hi-fi' record player in the living room until about 1963. Robin always had the speaker holes in the floating joinery unit but couldn’t afford the necessary equipment till years after we had moved into the house. Apparently one time some guest looked at the speaker holes (they had matchstick blind screening) and asked Robin what type of equipment he had. That was enough for Robin, and he immediately had a system installed - the one that is still there." (See also the amplifier item F030.)Turntable without lidthomas' music, sound system, walsh st house, ohm2022, ohm2022_8 -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Functional object - Amplifier
Robin Boyd had the sound system put in by a friend who ran the iconic Thomas’ Music in the city of Melbourne. The Boyd family think that Robin designed the facade and logo for Thomas’ Music. Penleigh Boyd's recalls " there was no “hi-fi” record player at the living room end till about 1963. Robin always had the speaker holes in the floating joinery unit but couldn’t afford the necessary equipment till years after we had moved into the house. Apparently onetime some guest looked at the speaker holes (they had matchstick blind screening) and asked Robin what type of equipment he had? That was enough for Robin, and he immediately had a system installed - the one that is still there." See also item F029.Tempo solid state stereo amplifier in timber surroundthomas' music, sound system, walsh st house, robin boyd, walsh st -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, Matrix of Man, An Illustrated History of Urban Environment, 1968
... melbourne City planning -- History; Urbanism; Urban ecology ...Hardcover w/ Dust JacketReview of the book by John M. Johansen in Forum May 1969city planning -- history; urbanism; urban ecology (sociology), walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Newspaper - Clipping, The Age (possibly), Experts hit Sunbury town plan, 11.11.71
Robin Boyd conceived the idea of a satellite city in Sunbury, formulated through the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Victorian chapter.A and date in red pen.sunbury, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Newspaper - Clipping, The Sun, Computer' city taking shape, 28.10.1971
Robin Boyd conceived the idea of a satellite city in Sunbury. Computers were used to help with design formulation.S and date in red pen.sunbury, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Newspaper - Clipping, Robin Boyd, City or Anti-city?, 21.10.1967
This article contains excerpts of Robin Boyd's address at the University of New England gave the previous evening. The University conferred an honorary Doctorate of Letters to Robin Boyd on that day.A and date in red penwalsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Ed Claude Foreel, Stephanie Wood, John Lethlean, Good Food Guide, 2000
... melbourne Walsh St library City planning -- History, Urbanism, Urban ...SoftcoverCity planning -- History, Urbanism, Urban ecologywalsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Journal, RAIA, Architecture in Australia, Vol. 48, No.4, Dec-59
This issue is devoted to Canberra - the development of Canberra, the existing city, the next stage and an editorial.architecture, australian architecture, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Journal, Students Society of the R.V.I.A (Melbourne), Lines, 1942
Robin Boyd was the editor and designer of this volume. Lines was an annual journal of the Students Society of the R.V.I.A. This is a very rare copy. Most articles have a byline, but the ones without are perhaps by Robin Boyd. There is such an article 'An Australian Architecture?" (2 pages) which is perhaps by Boyd. The journal also contains an article 'The Democratic City' by architect Dr Ernst Fuchs and an article 'An Australian School of Painting?' by John Reed, Deputy President Contemporary Art Society, founder of Heidi with his wife Sunday Reed.rvia, architecture, ernst fuchs, roy simpson, john reed, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Pamphlet, City of Melbourne, Urban Conservation Areas South Yarra, 1987
... Conservation Areas South Yarra Pamphlet City of Melbourne ...Guidelines to newly introduced Urban Conservation Areaurban conservation, environment, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Pamphlet, Intourist, Leningrad
Robin and Patricia Boyd visited Russia in 1964. A pamphlet containing a map of the city.walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Map, Manhattan Postcard Publishing Co, Souvenir Maps of New York City
... melbourne New York City Map Walsh St library Map of New York ...Map of New Yorknew york city, map, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Map, New York Convention and Visitors Centre, New York Visitor Guide and Map: Of the Greatest All-Year-Round Vacation City, 1966
... melbourne New York City Map Walsh St library New York Visitor Guide ...new york city, map, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Pamphlet, New York City
World trade Centrewalsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Newspaper - Clipping, John Larkin, A Tale of Two Cities, 9.09.1972
The first of two articles that look at inner and outer Melbourne area. This one is about Collingwood.walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Newspaper - Clipping, Geoffrey Dutton, Unimaginative Copyists - that's us, 10.12.1960
This is a review of Robin Boyd's book 'The Australian Ugliness'. It has a local aspect looking at what Boyd says about Elizabeth, a city in South Australia, 24 km north of Adelaide city centre.Handwritten in black pen Adelaide News and date.australian ugliness, geoffrey dutton, elizabeth south australia, featurism, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Geoffrey Dutton, Founder of a City: the Life of Colonel William Light, 1960
Hardcover w/ Dust Jacketaustralian biography, south australia, surveying, surveyors, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Fernand Saimond, What you want to know about Paris And Surroundings : Here it is in a small practical guidebook with a plan of the City of Paris
Softcover, spine is exposed and torn, map attached at the back is ripped, stains at the back coverparis, france, travel, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Judith Ryan, Nolan, Sidney Nolan: The City and the Plain, 1983
SoftcoverFlyer of 'Rodney Pople: First One Man Show in Melbourne"national gallery of victoria, painting, sidney nolan, richard haese, jan minchin , walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, C.H. Holden and W.G. Holford, The City of London - a record of Destruction and Survival, 1951
... melbourne London city of london history of london Walsh St library ...Hardcover w/dust jacketlondon, city of london, history of london, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Lewis Mumford, The City in History, 1966
Softcoverwalsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Edmund N. Bacon, Design Of Cities, 1967
Hardcover w/ Dust Jacketwalsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Warwick Lawrence, Living City, 1995
Hardcover w/ Dust JacketSigned "To Patricia - The Life and Form of the City - Noel"walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Christopher Hibbert, London: The Biography of a City, 1969
Hardcover w/ Dust Jackethistory, london, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Slide, Robin Boyd
Colour slide in a mount. Image from a magazine of Kansas City's International Airport, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. (Architects: Cooper-Roberson-Carlson-O'Brien.)Made in Australia (Print) / Kansas City's International Airport / Platte County ----- / Cooper-Roberson-Carlson-O'Brien / 10 / Encircled 12 (All Handwritten)slide, robin boyd