Document - Lecture, Robin Boyd, (Modern Architecture), 1962

Historical information

Rough, heavily annotated notes for lecture to be given to a Brisbane audience. Boyd divides modernist architects into a Romantic camp (citing Yamasaki, I.M. Pei, Paul Rudolph, Ed Stone) and a Realist camp (citing Kenzo Tange and the New Brutalists), then proposes a third category of 'Creative Realism' and defines some criteria for this type of architecture.

Significance

Speech given to students at the University of Queensland 24.6.1962

Physical description

Typewritten, major pencil edits and additions, foolscap, 1 folded pages

Inscriptions & markings

Extensive handwritten edits, notes and revisions

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