Robin Boyd: A Life by Geoffrey Serle

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges and spine. Some fading at spine. Interior and binding are excellent.

Robin Boyd lived for architecture but was also a gifted writer, teacher and social commentator.

In the 1940s and 1950s, Boyd, a member of a distinguished artistic family, was the leading Australian propagandist for the International Modern Movement in architecture. From 1953, in partnership with Roy Grounds and Frederick Romberg, he was noted for innovative domestic buildings.

The most popular and controversial of Boyd's nine books was The Australian Ugliness (1960), in which he scourged prevailing tastes in architecture and popular culture.

Boyd was a very private man and left few personal letters or records. In this book, Geoffrey Searle writes predominantly about Boyd's work and public activities, allowing key selections from Boy's writings to reveal, as they do to a quite revealing degree, the inner man. (book flap)