The Australian Ugliness 50th anniversary edition

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Notes

^1. See full transcript of interview with Michael Heyward, The Age online, April 23, 2012.

^2. See Peter Craven, “Literary Classics are not a Trash and Treasure Mix,” The Age, May 22, 2012, 11.

^3. Interview with Heyward.

^4. Robin Boyd, “The Search for Pleasingness,” Progressive Architecture 38, no. 4 (April 1957): 193–205. For a study of The Australian Ugliness in the context of Boyd's other writings, see Philip Goad, “Robin Boyd and the Art of Writing Architecture,” in Naomi Stead, ed., Semi-Detached: Writing, Representation and Criticism in Architecture (Melbourne: Uro Media, 2012), 182–96.

^5. Ken Brass, “The Australian Ugliness: After 25 Years, are we Still at the Pinnacle of 20th Century Tackiness?” Weekend Australian Magazine, March 7–8, 1987, 2–3.

^6. In 2011 Rijavec led a design research elective at RMIT entitled, “Boyd's Error, Planning's Curse,” which culminated in an exhibition of photo collages of Fitzroy streetscapes at the Pin-up Project Space in Melbourne in November that year.

^7. Quoted from the essay that accompanied the exhibition.

^8. See Harry Margalit, “Transparency in the Contemporary Australian House,” in Xing Ruan and Paul Hogben, eds., Topophilia and Topophobia: Reflections on Twentieth-Century Human Habitat (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), 133–49; John Macarthur, “Ugliness and Romanticism in the Work of Lyons,” in More: The Architecture of Lyons 1996–2011 (Fisherman's Bend: Thames and Hudson, 2012): 267–72; Richard Weller, Boomtown 2050: Scenarios for a Rapidly Growing City (Crawley, WA: UWA Publishing, 2009); and Andrew Leach, “In Your Face, Place,” Architecture Australia 101, no. 4 (July–August 2012): 77–80.