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Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, Two Classics of Modern Design, 1965
A review of the two books 'The New Architecture and the Bauhaus' by Walter Gropius and 'Garden Cities of Tomorrow' by Ebenezer Howard, on the occasion of their reissue as paperbacks.Original manuscript published as "Ahead of the trend" in the 'The Australian' on 05.06.1965.Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 5 pagesadelaide, bauhaus, canberra, deutscher werkbund exhibition, elizabeth, garden cities, walter gropius, ebenezer howard, letchworth, lewis mumford, welwyn, yallourn, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, Impact of WBG on suburban…
Discusses Walter Burley Griffin's effect on Australian architectural culture. Also considers his place within the Chicago School more broadly. Boyd believes Griffin to be more human, sensitive, and skillful compared to Frank Lloyd Wright, and laments that Griffin did not build more in Australia.This may be a lecture/talk - there are notes on the back.Handwritten, quarto, 2 pagesAll-caps inscription on the back of 2nd page - possibly a shorthand summary of the talk. Uncertain if this is Boyd's handwriting.walter burley griffin, old parliament house, canberra, louis sullivan, frank lloyd wright, capitol theatre, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, Announcing the end of the glass box and the birth of a new 3D city architecture, 1965
Discussion of the history of the 'glass box', i.e. the glazed curtain wall skyscraper and its appearance and demise in Australia. Also discusses the phenomenon of multi-storey car parks, and RMIT student designs for Victoria Market.Published as "Death notice: The End of the Glass Box/Birth Notice: A New 3-D Style for a City" in 'The Australian' on 13/11/1965.Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 8 pagesaustralia square, bates, smart & mccutcheon, john a la gerche, walter gropius, ici house, mcconnel, smith and johnson, harry seidler, sydney opera house, un secretariat, bogle and banfield, peter mcintyre, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Talk notes, Robin Boyd, Nothing succeeds like failure
Appears to be a talk to architecture students about success and failure in architecture according to whether you are an architect ('a doer') as well as a talker and a writer, and the influence attached to all three.Talk notesHandwritten (pencil), quarto, 2 pagesHandwritten and torn second pagefrank lloyd wright, walter gropius, le corbusier, henry moore, alexander calder, albert einstein, buckminster fuller, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, The Architecture of Walter Burley Griffin
Critique of Donald Leslie Johnson's book on Griffin. Boyd does not think it compares well to the first such book, written by James Birrell called "The Architecture of Walter Burley Griffin".Original manuscript for a book review of "The architecture of Walter Burley Griffin" by Donald Leslie Johnson. However, this is puzzling as the book appears to be published in 1977 (perhaps a 2nd edition)Typewritten (c copy), foolscap, 6 pagesUnderlining of Walter Burley Griffin on second pagejames birrell, donald leslie johnson. a yankee in the kangaroo's court, prairie school review, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Functional object - Cookware, Revere Ware
Robin Boyd developed a close friendship with the founder of the Bauhaus in Weimar Germany, Walter Gropius, who had moved to the USA in the 1930s. Through this connection, Boyd was invited to be the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Bemis Professor at the School in the North American academic year 1956-7. During this time, the Boyds purchased this set of Revere kitchenware, which carries the prized "Process Patent" maker's mark on the thick copper bases. Mandie Boyd recalls: "I don’t remember a lot of cooking going on in them, if any, as they were a pain to clean but looked fabulous hanging on the wall absolutely gleaming. We would all check our hair and make up in them."A set of Revere Ware Saucepans and Frying Pans. A set of four Revere Ware copper clad, stainless steel saucepans with lids and black handles and hanging rings. A set of three Revere Ware copper clad, stainless steel pans with black handles and hanging rings. The largest flat one has no lid. Saucepans: largest 175mmx140mm, smallest 120mmx180mm. Frying Pans: largest 350mmx10mm, smallest 80mmx50mm.Revere Ware company engraving. Made under process patent #2363973. 'Revere Ware 1801' 'Patent # 22726091'revere, revereware, revere ware, cookware, walsh st kitchenware, robin boyd, ohm2022, ohm2022_10 -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Functional object - Canister set
Robin Boyd developed a close friendship with the founder of the Bauhaus in Weimar Germany, Walter Gropius, who had moved to the USA in the 1930s. Through this connection, Boyd was invited to be the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Bemis Professor at the School in the North American academic year 1956-7. During this time, the Boyds purchased this set of melamine kitchen canisters. They were used for flour, sugar, rice and biscuits etc. Both Robin and Patricia liked melamine, and also had melamine serving dishes. Seven melamine containers with coloured exteriors (ranging from white through yellowy-green, orange and black) with black interiors and teak lids. Height ranges from 100-200mm, width ranges from 110-170mm, Base measures 100-155mmcookware, walsh st kitchenware, robin boyd -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Drawing
Unknown history - perhaps an architecture student made it recently.A copy of a drawing of James Blythe House, Iowa, by the architect Walter Burley Griffin. It is stuck crudely on some board. -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Newspaper - Clipping, Standard (Warrnambool, Victoria), Walter Burley Griffin, 16.10.1971
This article is about a Survey documentary on ABC-TV coming up on 22 October 1971 on the life and times of Walter Burley Griffin. It includes impressions by architects including Robin Boyd who assesses his work.Robin Boyd's name underlined in pencilwalsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Journal, Peter Bellew, Art in Australia, Jun, Jul, Aug 1942
Includes 2 articles by Walter Bunning - "Aesthetics and War" p.71, "Rachel Forster Hospital" p.85. Walter Bunning was a prominent Australian architect and urban planner - a contemporary of Robin Boyd.walter bunning, rachel forster hospital, world war 2, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Journal, Journal of Architectural Education, Vol. 12, No.2, Summer 1957
This contains a Boyd article titled ‘These Critical Times’ p.33-36. Prof Albert Bush-Brown from MIT is the Editor of this Journal. This issue appeared the year Boyd was Bemis Professor at MIT. The same issue also has articles by Walter Gropius ('History and the Student') and Sigfried Giedion ('History and the Architect').architecture, education, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Journal, Ruskin Press (Melbourne), Lines, 1940/1941
Robin Boyd was editor with PE Newell in 1940 and 1941. RB was President Architectural Students Society of the RVIA in 1941.Possible sketch in pencil of Boyd's Camberwell house with '51 addition on rear cover.rvia, architecture, walter gropius, roy grounds, roy simpson, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Magazine - Clipping, Life Magazine, Up Close: Walter Gropius at 85, 07.06.1968
The first piece in the 'Life' magazine titled "All-Purpose Old Master of Design" is a close-up look at Walter Gropius at 85. The second piece titled "'Grope' brought everything in the range of his vision" is by Peter Blake, Editor of Architectural Forum. Blake argues that Gropius was a true universalist, in contrast to Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe. who were all specialists.Two articles pp 49-54; pp 58-64.gropius, bauhaus, weimar, harvard, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Robin Boyd, Orientamento Nuovi Nell'Architettura Giapponese, 1969
Robin Boyd was commissioned to write 'New Directions in Japanese Architecture' following recommendation by Walter Gropius. It was published by Studio Vista in 1968. The book was well-received and influential around the world - this Italian translation dates to 1969.Hardcover w/ Dust JacketItalian translation of Robin Boyd's book New Directions in Japanese Architecturewalsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, W.R. Crocker, Australian Ambassador: International Relations at First Hand, 1971
Hardcover w/ Dust Jacketaustralian history, walter crocker, foreign relations, international relations, 1951-1969, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Journal, Hall's Book Store Pty. Ltd, The Victorian Historical Magazine: Vol. XXVI, 1955
MagazineIncludes 1955 essay by Robin Boyd titled "Walter Burley Griffin in Victoria"walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Walter Gropius, Scope of Total Architecture, 1956
HardcoverPatricia Boyd's signaturearchitecture, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Norman St John-Stevas, The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot. The Literary Essays (in two volumes). Volume Two, 1965
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Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Norman St John-Stevas, The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot. The Historical Essays (in two volumes). Volume Three, 1968
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Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Norman St John-Stevas, The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot. The Literary Essays (in two volumes). Volume Four, 1968
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Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Norman St John-Stevas, The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot. The Literary Essays (in two volumes). Volume One, 1968
Hardcover w/ Dust Jacketwalsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Walter Goldsmith and Berry Ritchie, The New Elite, 1987
Hardcover w/ Dust Jacketwalsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Gilbert Herbert, The synthetic vision of Walter Gropius, 1959
... Robin Boyd Foundation 290 Walsh Street South Yarra ...Hardcover w/ Dust Jacketwalter gropius, walsh st library -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Audio CD, Wemba Wemba and Wergaia language elicitation, 1962
Recorded in Echuca. Nancy Egan speaks and sings in Wemba Wemba. She talks about making kangaroo and possum skin rugs. Wergaia vocabulary with Walter Kennedy and Billy Marks.CD, recording noteswemba wemba, wergaia, wotjobaluk, wamba wamba, echuca, nancy egan, walter kennedy, billy marks, kangaroo skins, possum skin rugs -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Audio CD, Wergaia language elicitation and Yaralde song, 1963
Walter Kennedy and Billy Marks speak Wergaia at Antwerp; David Unaipon sings. Includes some family history.CD, recording noteswergaia, antwerp, yaraldi, yaralde, wotjobaluk, walter kennedy, billy marks, david unaipon, family histories, genealogy -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Slide, Robin Boyd
Colour slide in a mount. Walter Boas Building or CSIRO Tribophysics Labororatory (1953), Parkville, Victoria, Australia. (Architect: Commonwealth Department of Works.)21 (Handwritten)slide, robin boyd -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Slide, Robin Boyd
Colour slide in a mount. Mitchell building on the left with Sir Walter Hughes statue in centre, University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, 1882. (Architects: William McMinn of Woods & McMinn.)Made in Australia / 17slide, robin boyd -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Slide, Robin Boyd, 1956-1957
Robin Boyd developed a close friendship with the founder of the Bauhaus in Weimar Germany, Walter Gropius, who had moved to the USA in the 1930s. Through this connection, Boyd was invited to be the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Bemis Professor at the School in the North American academic year 1956-7. Robin and Patricia Boyd, with their youngest daughter Suzy, were based in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the year. Boyd gave some lectures at MIT and he was also invited to give lectures at many other universities, allowing him to travel widely within the USA, especially on the East Coast. This gave him the opportunity to meet architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Paul Rudolph and many others, and visit the offices of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and places like Taliesin and the General Motors Technical Center Detroit. On the way home, the Boyds visited London, Berlin, Paris and Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel in France.Colour slide in a mount. Taliesin East, Spring Green, Wisconsin, USA. (Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright.)Made in USA / 29mit bemis professorship, mit, robin boyd, slide -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Slide, Robin Boyd, 1956-1957
Robin Boyd developed a close friendship with the founder of the Bauhaus in Weimar Germany, Walter Gropius, who had moved to the USA in the 1930s. Through this connection, Boyd was invited to be the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Bemis Professor at the School in the North American academic year 1956-7. Robin and Patricia Boyd, with their youngest daughter Suzy, were based in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the year. Boyd gave some lectures at MIT and he was also invited to give lectures at many other universities, allowing him to travel widely within the USA, especially on the East Coast. This gave him the opportunity to meet architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Paul Rudolph and many others, and visit the offices of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and places like Taliesin and the General Motors Technical Center Detroit. On the way home, the Boyds visited London, Berlin, Paris and Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel in France. Colour slide in a mount. Possibly New Orleans, Lousiana, USADate: 04819 / Subject: / E (Handwritten)slide, robin boyd -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Slide, Robin Boyd, 1956-1957
Robin Boyd developed a close friendship with the founder of the Bauhaus in Weimar Germany, Walter Gropius, who had moved to the USA in the 1930s. Through this connection, Boyd was invited to be the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Bemis Professor at the School in the North American academic year 1956-7. Robin and Patricia Boyd, with their youngest daughter Suzy, were based in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the year. Boyd gave some lectures at MIT and he was also invited to give lectures at many other universities, allowing him to travel widely within the USA, especially on the East Coast. This gave him the opportunity to meet architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Paul Rudolph and many others, and visit the offices of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and places like Taliesin and the General Motors Technical Center Detroit. On the way home, the Boyds visited London, Berlin, Paris and Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel in France.Colour slide in a mount. House, Possibly Charleston, South Carolina, USADate: 04819 / Subject: / Encircled 10 (Handwritten) / A (Handwritten) / 7 (Handwritten)slide, robin boyd