Penleigh Boyd, Robin and Patricia Boyd's son, writes “Prior to 1950 Robin, like most other amateur or hobby photographers, took black and white printed photographs. The oldest slides date from 1950 when Robin and Patricia travelled to Europe on Robin’s Robert Haddon Travelling Scholarship.” In 1948 Robin Boyd was awarded ‘joint first place’ in the Robert Haddon competition for his design of Mildura art gallery. The scholarship helped fund their first overseas trip. Robin and Patricia were passengers on the Greek ship “Cyrenia” departing in May 1950, passing through the Suez Canal and landing in Genoa five weeks later. For six months, they travelled extensively throughout Europe (predominantly driving themselves) - France, Italy, United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Spain.Colour slide in a mount. School, Zurich, SwitzerlandZurich / School (All Handwritten)haddon travelling scholarship, haddon, robin boyd, slide

Penleigh Boyd, Robin and Patricia Boyd's son, writes “Prior to 1950 Robin, like most other amateur or hobby photographers, took black and white printed photographs. The oldest slides date from 1950 when Robin and Patricia travelled to Europe on Robin’s Robert Haddon Travelling Scholarship.” In 1948 Robin Boyd was awarded ‘joint first place’ in the Robert Haddon competition for his design of Mildura art gallery. The scholarship helped fund their first overseas trip. Robin and Patricia were passengers on the Greek ship “Cyrenia” departing in May 1950, passing through the Suez Canal and landing in Genoa five weeks later. For six months, they travelled extensively throughout Europe (predominantly driving themselves) - France, Italy, United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Spain.Colour slide in a mount. Cantonal Hospital Zürich, also known as the University Hospital Zürich, 1945-51, Zürich, Switzerland. (Architects: M. Moser, Max Ernst Haefeli and Rudolf Steiger)Zurich / Kantonsspital / 1945-51 (All Handwritten)haddon travelling scholarship, haddon, robin boyd, slide

Robin Boyd travelled to the USA and Britain for several weeks. He attended the opening of the new Australian Chancery in Washington DC, where he had designed an innovative exhibition with cylindrical display cases and sound recordings.Colour slide in a mount. Unknown location, possibly EnglandMade in Australia / 7 / JUL 69M3slide, robin boyd

Colour slide in a mount. Drawing: US Consulate at Tabriz (circa 1960), Iran. (Architect: Edward Larrabee Barnes .)Made in Australia / Encircled 3 (Handwritten) / Consulate in Tabriz, Iran (Handwritten) / Edward Larrabee Barnes (Handwritten)slide, robin boyd

Robin Boyd travelled to the USA and Britain for several weeks. He attended the opening of the new Australian Chancery in Washington DC, where he had designed an innovative exhibition with cylindrical display cases and sound recordings.Colour slide in a mount. Shadows of palm fronds, possibly HawaiiMade in Australia / 31 / JUL 69M6slide, robin boyd

Robin Boyd travelled to the USA and Britain for several weeks. He attended the opening of the new Australian Chancery in Washington DC, where he had designed an innovative exhibition with cylindrical display cases and sound recordings.Colour slide in a mount. Honolulu, Hawaii, USAMade in Australia / 32 / JUL 69M6slide, robin boyd

Robin Boyd travelled to the USA and Britain for several weeks. He attended the opening of the new Australian Chancery in Washington DC, where he had designed an innovative exhibition with cylindrical display cases and sound recordings.Colour slide in a mount. Possibly Honolulu, Hawaii, USAMade in Australia / 34 / JUL 69M6slide, robin boyd

Robin Boyd travelled to the USA and Britain for several weeks. He attended the opening of the new Australian Chancery in Washington DC, where he had designed an innovative exhibition with cylindrical display cases and sound recordings.Colour slide in a mount. Possibly Honolulu, Hawaii, USAMade in Australia / 35 / JUL 69M6slide, robin boyd

In 1964, Robin and Patricia Boyd spent several weeks on a world tour - Boyd took a leading role at the International Design Conference in Aspen and he also visited Chicago, Yale University, and New York’s World Fair. The Boyds then travelled on to England, Finland (especially to see Tapiola), Russia and India to see Le Corbusier's Chandigarh, and also Hong Kong and Thailand.Colour slide in a mount. Street scene, RussiaMade in Australia / 2 / AUG 64M / 16 (Handwritten) / Minsk (?) Gorki St (Handwritten)russia, slide

The original images of Clendon Flats are taken by photographer Lyle Fowler and are held in the State Library of Victoria collection.Colour slide in a mount. Magazine image, Clendon Flats, Armadale (1940), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Architect: Roy Grounds)Made in Australia / G4 (Handwritten)slide, robin boyd

Colour slide in a mount. 35 Outlook Drive, Eaglemont (1964), Victoria, Australia. (Architects: Montgomery, King and Trengove.)Made in Australia / 33 / JAN 65M / House Outlook Drive Eaglemont (Handwritten) / Montgomery King & Trengrove (Handwritten)melbourne, slide

Colour slide in a mount. 35 Outlook Drive, Eaglemont (1964), Victoria, Australia. (Architects: Montgomery, King and Trengove.)Made in Australia / 35 / JAN 65M / House Eaglemont (Handwritten) / / Montgomery King & Trengrove (Handwritten)melbourne, slide

Robin Boyd travelled to the USA and Britain for several weeks. He attended the opening of the new Australian Chancery in Washington DC, where he had designed an innovative exhibition with cylindrical display cases and sound recordings.Colour slide in a mount. Honolulu, Hawaii, USAMade in Australia / 23 / JUL 69M6slide, robin boyd

Robin Boyd travelled to the USA and Britain for several weeks. He attended the opening of the new Australian Chancery in Washington DC, where he had designed an innovative exhibition with cylindrical display cases and sound recordings.Colour slide in a mount. Dolphins (Hawaii?)Made in Australia / 6 / JUL 69M6slide, robin boyd

Robin Boyd travelled to the USA and Britain for several weeks. He attended the opening of the new Australian Chancery in Washington DC, where he had designed an innovative exhibition with cylindrical display cases and sound recordings.Colour slide in a mount. Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Virginia. (Architect: Eero Saarinen.)Made in Australia / 17 / JUL 69M3slide, robin boyd

Robin Boyd travelled to the USA and Britain for several weeks. He attended the opening of the new Australian Chancery in Washington DC, where he had designed an innovative exhibition with cylindrical display cases and sound recordings.Colour slide in a mount. Dolphins (Hawaii?)Made in Australia / 5 / JUL 69M6slide, robin boyd

Robin Boyd travelled to the USA and Britain for several weeks. He attended the opening of the new Australian Chancery in Washington DC, where he had designed an innovative exhibition with cylindrical display cases and sound recordings.Colour slide in a mount. House, possibly Honolulu, HawaiiMade in Australia / 11 / JUL 69M6slide, robin boyd

Robin Boyd travelled to the USA and Britain for several weeks. He attended the opening of the new Australian Chancery in Washington DC, where he had designed an innovative exhibition with cylindrical display cases and sound recordings.Colour slide in a mount. Honolulu, Hawaii, USAMade in Australia / 2 / JUL 69M6slide, robin boyd

Robin Boyd travelled to the USA and Britain for several weeks. He attended the opening of the new Australian Chancery in Washington DC, where he had designed an innovative exhibition with cylindrical display cases and sound recordings.Colour slide in a mount. Honolulu, Hawaii, USAMade in Australia / 4 / JUL 69M6slide, robin boyd

Robin Boyd was appointed Exhibits Architect for the Australian Pavilion at Expo ‘67 in Montreal. The garden outside the pavilion featured a sculptural pool, a coral display, animal pool, a pit for kangaroos and Eucalypts and other native plants. The indoor exhibits covered aspects of Australian art and culture, architecture, industrial design and scientific innovation, such as the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Power Scheme, the Parkes radio telescope, the design of Canberra, and the Australian way of life.Colour slide in a mount. Cuban Pavilion, Expo '67, Montreal, Canada. (Architects: Vittorio Garatti, Sergio Baroni und Hugo D'Acosta)Made in Australia / 3 / JUL 67M6 / 15 (Handwritten) / Encircled 9 (Handwritten) / 41 (Handwritten)expo 67, montreal, robin boyd, slide

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 travelled to the USA and Britain for several weeks. He attended the opening of the new Australian Chancery in Washington DC, where he had designed an innovative exhibition with cylindrical display cases and sound recordings.Colour slide in a mount. Honolulu, Hawaii, USAMade in Australia / 3 / JUL 69M6slide, robin boyd

Robin Boyd travelled to the USA and Britain for several weeks. He attended the opening of the new Australian Chancery in Washington DC, where he had designed an innovative exhibition with cylindrical display cases and sound recordings.Colour slide in a mount. Honolulu, Hawaii, USAMade in Australia / 24 / JUL 69M6slide, robin boyd

Colour slide in a mount. Unknown location, probably USA04819 / Encircled 15 (Handwritten)slide, robin boyd

Robin Boyd travelled to the USA and Britain for several weeks. He attended the opening of the new Australian Chancery in Washington DC, where he had designed an innovative exhibition with cylindrical display cases and sound recordings.Colour slide in a mount. Ford Foundation (1963-7), New York, New York, USA . (Architects: Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo.)Made in Australia / 2 / JUL 69M2 / Encircled 1 (Handwritten)slide, robin boyd

Colour slide in a mount. Unknown location, AustraliaMade in Australia / Encircled 45 (Handwritten) / 26 (Handwritten-Cancelled)slide, robin boyd

Robin Boyd was appointed Exhibits Architect for the Australian Pavilion at Expo ‘67 in Montreal. In 1966 Boyd travelled to Far North Queensland and the Northern Territory for research – the Expo exhibits included a coral display and native plant garden.Colour slide in a mount. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, AustraliaMade in Australia / 11 / MAR 66M1queensland, slide

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

Colour slide in a mount. Magazine image of M H Bailllieu house, Toorak, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1926. (Architect: Desbrowe Annear.)Made in Australiaslide, robin boyd

Colour slide in a mount. Lennon's Broadbeach Hotel (1956), Broadbeach, Queensland, Australia. (Architect: Karl Langer.)16slide, robin boyd