Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side to l…

- Robin Boyd

When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects in this country ar…

- Robin Boyd

The suburb was the major element of Australian society.

- Robin Boyd

Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it eff…

- Robin Boyd

Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.

- Robin Boyd

We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.

- Robin Boyd

Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens.

- Robin Boyd

Yet the small house, probably more than anything else that man has done, has made the face of Australia and to an extent the faces of Australians. Au…

- Robin Boyd

Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until a little sho…

- Robin Boyd