Understanding Design: Robin Boyd Foundation

Understanding
Design:
Robin Boyd
Foundation

Invitation to public open day: Sunday 6 December 2009

The Robin Boyd Foundation invites you to visit Griffin’s Melbourne – a public open day of buildings designed by the architectural partnership of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahoney Griffin.
Robin Boyd praised Walter Burley Griffin as ‘an irritant to the establishment…and an inspiration to young designers’. In Boyd’s opinion, ‘Griffin accelerated the development of Melbourne’s architecture beyond the normal Australian rate of progress in the first half of the (twentieth) century’.

The Griffins are acknowledged as Australia’s first international architects. The brilliant and visionary designers of the grand public Centre for design awareness Centre for scholarship and research Museum house...

Find more: www.robinboyd.org.au