Australia's Home

by Robin Boyd

'Since its first publication by Melbourne University Press Australia's Home has been in constant demand... people read it for pure pleasure as an eventful illuminating story. Householders read it to see their house and streetscapes afresh through Boyd's eyes, their own vision both criticized and enriched by his. Architects and planners read it to agonize with Boyd over built forms and townscapes . . . But the book is most remarkable of all as history, a great bit of poaching by an architect-journalist who never claimed to write history at all.' Hugh Stretton

Genres: Nonfiction

300 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

Reviews

[Matt Barton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Boyd is a delight to read. This is a thoroughly engaging book on a topic that still occupies much importance today.

[Simon Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

Robin Boyd, one of the greats of the Boyd dynasty, apart from being one of Australia's foremost and forward thinking architects, was a great writer on design, architectural history and the Australian condition. His writing style is very accessible and makes it a pleasure to read something that also makes you a better person for reading it. My copy is a first edition 1952 and embraces functionalism and the beginnings of a modernist oeuvre. 'The Australian Ugliness" is a must read next book and I can't get enough Boyd writing, the reading is therapeutic. Nice little "Book Town' pick up in 2013. 2015 did not disappoint. Must go again....