Robin Boyd (1917 - 1971) was an influential Australian architect, writer, teacher and social commentator, the foremost Australian proponent for the International Modern Movement in architecture. 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Modern architecture is a broad term given to a number of building styles with similar characteristics, primarily the simplification of form and the elimination of ornament, that first arose around 1900. ... In the field of building architecture, the skills demanded of an architect range from the more complex, such as for a hospital or a stadium, to something simpler, such as planning simple residential houses. ...

Publications

• Australia's Home, 1952 - the first substantial architectural history of Australian domestic architecture
• The Australian Ugliness, 1960 - the most popular and controversial of Boyd's writings, in which he criticised prevailing establishment tastes in both architecture and popular culture

Further reading

• Geoffrey Serle, Robin Boyd - A Life, Melbourne University Publishing, 1996, reissued 2004. ISBN 0522847420 - represents the primary biography of Robin Boyd to date