Robin Boyd Inspirational Quotes (7)

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.

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

The suburb was the major element of Australian society.

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

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.

Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.

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