Canberra House

On 22 June, 2007 the Directors of the Robin Boyd Foundation announced their decision to sell the Robin Boyd House II in Walsh Street, South Yarra. The house will be auctioned on 21 July, 2007.
The house was designed and built by Robin Boyd in 1958 and since December 2004 has been owned by the Robin [...]

In April 2007, the Art Deco Society will host the 9th World Congress on Art Deco in Melbourne. The 2007 Congress will be held from Monday 16 April to Friday 20 April, 2007.
A World Congress is held at a nominated city around the world every two years, allowing Art Deco enthusiasts to hear presentations by [...]

Italian-born Canberra architect Enrico Taglietti has been awarded Australia’s most prestigious architecture prize—the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) Gold Medal for Architecture.
In presenting the Gold Medal at the Australian National University in Canberra on 15 March, RAIA President Carey Lyon said the Award Jury found:
Enrico Taglietti’s work is highly significant in Australian architecture, both [...]

The death of one of Australia’s forgotten modernists has been reported in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Canberra Times. Alex Jelinek, whose only fully realised architectural work is the Round House, at 10 Gawler Crescent, Deakin, died on 12 February 2007 aged 81.
Jelinek joined the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in 1946, where he [...]

As reported in the Sydney Morning Herald (23 October, 2006), a house in Lurline Bay, Sydney, designed by Harry Seidler in 1963, is under threat of demolition. The listing agent says that the new owner will probably demolish the house, since it’s a modest place sited on a magnificent block of land. The Heritage Committee [...]

Robin Boyd CBE (1919-1971) was a renowned Australian architect, author, critic, and public educator in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a leader of the Modern Movement in Australia, a visionary in urban design and an outspoken commentator on the Australian Identity. Boyd was not only a great architect who was passionate about good design—he [...]

The National Library of Australia recently announced a major new acquisition—the Eric Milton Nicholls Collection. It comprises over 2500 photographs, maps, plans, presentation drawings, and manuscript items by Walter and Marion Mahoney Griffin (including a profile on gold silk of the proposed city of Canberra). It includes a fair amount of material relating to the [...]