A Voice from the Margins: Robin Boyd and 1960s Architecture Culture

Internationally, the career of Australian architect and critic Robin Boyd (1919-1971), is today largely unacknowledged. But during his lifetime, and especially in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, Boyd wrote as a respected critic and theorist across a wide spectrum of architectural concerns, with his work appearing in a range of international publication venues, from The Architectural Review (UK) and Architectural Forum (US) to Casabella (Italy) and John Donat’s series World Architecture (UK). He wrote two books on contemporary Japanese architecture, Kenzo Tange (1962) and New Directions in Japanese Architecture (1968), as well as important articles on what he