Modern In Melbourne

Robin Boyd

Researchers: Ursula Navarro, Chris Reddaway

 

1919
Born Robin Gerard Penleigh Boyd, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3rd January 1919.

1926 - 1936
Educated Malvern Church of England Grammar School.

1936 - 1940
Articles with Kingsley A. Henderson, Architect, Melbourne.
Concurrently attended evening classes at the Melbourne Technical College where he completed the Diploma .

1938 - 1942
Attended University of Melbourne Architectural Atelier without obtaining any qualification.

1939 - 1942
Editor of Smudges.

1940 - 1941
President of V.A.S.S. ( Victorian Architectural Student Association) Boyd who failed to obtain employment with Frederick Romberg commences working for Roy Grounds in 1941

1942 - 1945
Serviced as a Warrant Officer Class II in the 3rd Field Survey Company of the Australian Imperial Forces, New Guinea.

1943
Married Dorothy Patricia Madder.

1945 - 1947
Unofficial partnership with Kevin Pethebridge and Frank Bell.

1946
Registered as an architect.

1947
Victoria Modern
1947 - 1953
Sole practice.
July 1947 - December 1953
Director of the RVIA small Homes Services. Regular weekly articles for the Age newspaper. Boyd didnít write between 31st May 1950 and 23rd January 1951 as he was overseas as part of his Haddon Scholarship.

1948
In August 1948 in response to the urging of Professor of Architecture Brian Lewis Boyd enrolled in the Bachelor of Architecture program at the University of Melbourne In September however he was awarded the 1948 RVIA Robert and Ada Haddon Travelling Scholarship and he abandoned the pursuit of academic qualifications.

July 1949 - December 1952
Robin Boyd, Associate Editor of Architecture.

1951
Modern Houses.

1952
Australia's Home.
1952 - 1971
R. Boyd, Councillor of the RVIA.
R. Boyd, Councillor of the Town and Country Planning Association of Victoria.
November 1952
Founding Editor of Cross-Section

1953
Boyd joins with Frederick Romberg and Roy Grounds to form the partnership of Grounds, Romberg and Boyd. (340 Albert Street, East Melbourne).
Assessor, Olympic Swimming Stadium Competition, Melbourne, Victoria.
1953 - 1962
Partner of the firm Grounds, Romberg and Boyd.
January 1954 - June 1956
Boyd writes the weekly 'Building and Design' column for the Herald newspaper.

1956
Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institution of Technology, Boston, Mass., U.S.A.

1957
Guest at the AIA Convention, Washington D.C., May 1957.

1958
Robin Boyd, FRAIA.

1959
Speaker at the AIA Convention, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A, October 1959.

1960
The Australian Ugliness.
Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

1962
Partnership of Grounds, Romberg and Boyd dissolved. Partnership of Romberg and Boyd formed. (340 Albert Street, East Melbourne).
Kenzo Tange.
The Walls Around Us.
1962 - 1971
Partner of the firm Romberg and Boyd.

1963
The New Architecture.

1964
Speaker, Aspen Design Conference, Aspen, Colorado, U.S.A.
1964 - 1967
Australian editor of World Architecture.

1965
The Puzzle of Architecture.
Frederick Romberg accepts appointment to Chair of Architecture, Newcastle University, N.S.W.
1965 - 1970
Member, Industrial Design Council of Australia.
April 1965 - October 1971
R. Boyd on the board of contributors of the Architectural Forum.
1965 - 1971
Trustee of the National Gallery of Victoria.

1967
ABC Boyer Lecturer.
Honorary D.Litt., University of New England, Armidale, N.S.W.
1967 - 1968
Vice President of the Victorian Chapter, RAIA.

1968
New and Revised Edition of Australia's Home.
Look Here!
New Directions in Japanese Architecture.
Assessor, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, ACT.

1968 - 1970
Senior Vice - President of the Victorian Chapter, RAIA.

1968 - 1971
Member, National Capital Planning Committee, Canberra.

January 1969 - September-October 1970
R.Boyd, editor of Architect.

1969
Awarded the Gold Medal, RAIA.
Assessor, Civic Square Competition, Melbourne, Victoria.
Assessor, New Parliamentary Buildings, Westminister, London, England.
March-April 1969
R.Boyd introduces the new graphic format to Architect.

1970
Living in Australia.
1970 - 1971
Member, Melbourne Underground Rail Loop Authority.
President of the Victorian Chapter, RAIA.

1971
Living and Partly Living.
CBE ( Commander, Order of the British Empire).
Died in Melbourne, 16th October 1971, aged 52

1972
The Great Australian Dream.

1973
Robin Boyd awarded the 1973 Architecture Criticsí Medal of the American Institute of Architects.

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