Robin Boyd frases

• We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.

  Robin Boyd

  Needs, Planning, Architecture

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• Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side to let the serious business of living proceed without distraction.

  Robin Boyd

  Art, Ideas, Australia

  Robin Boyd, Australian Broadcasting Commission (1967). “Artificial Australia”

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• When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects in this country are truly functional, Australia will be as beautiful in its own way as classical Greece.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Country

  Robin Boyd, Australian Broadcasting Commission (1967). “Artificial Australia”

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• Sin embargo, la casa pequeña, probablemente más que cualquier otra cosa que haya hecho el hombre, ha marcado el rostro de Australia y, en cierta medida, el de los australianos. Australia es la casa pequeña. Ser propietario de una en una parcela vallada es un objetivo tan inevitable e incuestionable para el australiano medio como el matrimonio.

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  Men, Average, Australia

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• Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral.

  Robin Boyd

  Thinking, Design, Architecture

  Robin Boyd, Australian Broadcasting Commission (1967). “Artificial Australia”

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• El suburbio era el elemento principal de la sociedad australiana.

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  Elements, Architecture, Australian

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• Los insectos influyeron en la forma de la casa australiana. Algunos, como la hormiga blanca y el barrenador Lyctus, trabajaban en silencio y de forma invisible hasta que una pequeña lluvia de polvo amarillo o un repentino desplome indicaban su presencia. Otros, como el mosquito y la mosca doméstica, eran menos peligrosos y más desagradables. El primer tipo influía en la estructura en menor medida; el segundo afectaba a la planificación en gran medida.

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  Dust, Yellow, White

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• Australia es, de hecho, la burocracia de un anciano.

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  Men, Australia, Facts

  Robin Boyd, Australian Broadcasting Commission (1967). “Artificial Australia”

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• Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.

  Robin Boyd

  Regret, Views, Design

  Robin Boyd, Australian Broadcasting Commission (1967). “Artificial Australia”

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• Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens.

  Robin Boyd

  Cities, Australia, Citizens

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