Robin Boyd
A life
$59.46
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
30 November 1991
Summary
Robin Boyd, gifted architect, writer, teacher and social commentator, was the leading Australian propagandist for the International Modern Movement in architecture. In partnership with Roy Grounds and Frederick Romberg, he was noted for his innovative domestic buildings. Indeed the suburban home was often a focus of Boyd’s thinking, writing and criticism, and in Australia’s Home (1952) he provided the first substantial interpretation of Australia’s architectural history.But the most popular a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522872989 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522872980 |
| Author: | Geoffrey Serle |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | The Miegunyah Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 30 November 1991 |
| Weight: | 620g |
| Dimensions: | 241mm x 169mm x 34mm |
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About The Author
Geoffrey Serle
Geoffrey Serle was one of Australia’s most distinguished historians. He was Victorian Rhodes Scholar in 1947 and completed his doctorate at Oxford in 1950.He was general editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography between 1975 and 1988. He is also a well-known author and his work has won several prestigious awards including the Ernest Scott prize, the National Book Council Banjo award and the Age Book of the Year. His published books include: The Melbourne Scene 1803-1956, The Golden Age, The Rush to be Rich, From Deserts the Prophets Come, John Monash: A Biography, Sir John Medley, For Australia and Labor: Prime Minister John Curtin.Geoffrey Serle died in 1998.
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