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1956 Olympic Decorations: the final fling

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  • Boyd , Robin . “The state of Australian architecture”, Architecture in Australia, (June 1967): 459.
  • Goad , Philip . “Optimism and Experiment”, Architecture Australia, (June 1990): 35.
  • Boyd , Robin . 1965 . The Puzzle of Architecture Parkville , VIC : Melbourne University Press . p 92.
  • The colours for the River House, Kew designed by Peter and Dione Mclntyre were selected from the Tip Top paint range.
  • Norman Day, “Melbourne Vitalism Revisited: Architecture and Drawings from the 1950s and 1960s”, Transition, (September 1987): 33.
  • Boyd . “The state of Australian architecture”, p 459.
  • Boyd . “The state of Australian architecture”, p 459.
  • Boyd , Robin . “Olympic Pools Best in the World”, Age, 30 December 1952, p 5. Note that Australian identity was also signified for the 2000 Olympic Games by a building, namely Jsrn Utzon's Sydney Opera House.
  • Boyd . “Olympic Pools Best in the World”, p 5.
  • Interview with Peter Mclntyre by David Islip 10 November 1996.
  • Serle , Geoffrey . 1995 . Robin Boyd: a life Carlton South : Miegunyah Press . p 269.
  • Interview with Bill Irwin by David Islip 1 May 1997.
  • Interview with Irwin by Islip.
  • Goad . “Optimism and Experiment”, p 45.
  • Lewis , Miles . Melbourne: the city's history and development Melbourne : City of Melbourne . c1995, p 120.
  • Lewis . Melbourne: the city's history and development 120
  • Lewis . Melbourne: the city's history and development 107
  • Dunstan , Keith . 1979 . Moomba: the first 25 Years Melbourne : Sue News-Pictorial and Melbourne Moomba Festival . p 13.
  • Cross-Section, 45 (1 July 1956).
  • Olympic Spirit, East Melbourne: Australian Gallery of Sport, 1986, p 22.
  • Lewis . Melbourne: the city's history and development 108
  • Olympic Spirit, p 23.
  • “Olympic “Wheels” Brighten City” . In Age 15 October 1956, p 3.
  • Letter from Phyllis Murphy to David Islip 18 September 1996.
  • “Twenty Four Weeks to the Olympic Games” . In Cross-Section 44 (1 June 1956).
  • Goad, “Optimism and Experiment”, p 45.
  • “Olympic Games Decorations, Melbourne, 1956“, Architecture and Arts, (November 1956): 24.
  • “Olympic Games Decorations, Melbourne 1956“, p 24.
  • “Lights, Gaiety in Golden Mile” Olympic Games Supplement, Age, 21 November 1956, p 2.
  • “Torch will be kindled next Friday” . In Herald 31 October 1956, p 5.
  • Herald, 21/10/1956.
  • “Olympic Games Decorations, Melbourne, 1956“, p 24.
  • “Torch went up without a hitch” . In Herald, 22 October 1956, p 15.
  • “Torch went up without a hitch” 15
  • “Torch went up without a hitch” 15
  • “Crowds see Erection of Giant Games Torch” . In Age, 22 October 1956, p 3.
  • Interview with Robert Eggleston by David Islip 12 November 1996.
  • Interview with. Eggleston by Islip.
  • Interview with Irwin by Islip.
  • Sayers , S . “Melbourne: Olympic City in Party Dress”, Age, 17 November 1956, p 2.
  • “Torch went up without a hitch” 15
  • “Crowds Watch City Lights Flash On for the Games” . In Age 17 November 1956, p1.
  • “We'll see the lights tonight” . In Sun 16 November 1956, p 3.
  • “Crowds Watch City Lights Flash On for the Games” 1
  • “Twenty Four Weeks to the Olympic Games”.
  • “The streets get the Olympic look” Lift-Out Souvenir, Woman's Day, 29 October 1956, p 39.
  • “Olympic Games Decorations, Melbourne, 1956“, p 24.
  • “Olympic Games Decorations, Melbourne, 1956“, p 24.
  • “Festival of Britain”, Architectural Review, (August 1951): 113.
  • Telephone interview with Don Fulton by David Islip 18 September 1996.
  • “Olympic Games Decorations, Melbourne, 1956“, p 24.
  • “Olympic Games Decorations, Melbourne, 1956“, p 25.
  • The metalwork was supplied by Hopley's Pty Ltd and erected by A R P Crow & Sons of Yarraville. “Crowds see Erection of Giant Games Torch”, p 3.
  • “Olympic Games Decorations, Melbourne, 1956“, p 25.
  • Sayers . “Melbourne: Olympic City in Party Dress”, p 2.
  • “Olympic Games Decorations, Melbourne 1956“, p 25
  • “Torch went up without a hitch” 15
  • “Olympic Games Decorations, Melbourne, 1956“, p 25.
  • “Olympic “Wheels” Brighten City” 3
  • Letter from Murphy to Islip.
  • “Olympic Games Decorations, Melbourne 1956“, p 25.
  • “Torch went up without a hitch” 15
  • “Torch went up without a hitch” 15
  • “Decorations” News of the Day, Age, 15 October 1956, p 3.
  • “The streets get the Olympic look” 3
  • “Twenty Four Weeks to the Olympic Games”.
  • “Olympic Games Decorations, Melbourne, 1956“, p 68. “Olympic Games Decorations, Melbourne. 1956“, p 25.
  • “Olympic Games Decorations, Melbourne, 1956“, p 25.
  • “Olympic Games Decorations, Melbourne, 1956“, p 25.
  • Telephone interview with Fulton by Islip.
  • “The streets get the Olympic look” 3
  • 1993 . The Australian Dream: Design of the Fifties Haymarket , NSW : Powerhouse Publishing . Judith O'Callaghan (ed), p 39.
  • Serle, Robin Boyd: a life, p 146.
  • “The streets get the Olympic look” 3
  • Telephone interview with Fulton by Islip.
  • “Coles Decoration” . In Herald 13 October 1956, p 5.
  • “Coles Decoration” 5 There was some confusion however as to who actually were our great pioneers, with Pix magazine claiming that the heroic John Batman was rather John Henty.
  • Brady , N . “Windows to a wonder world”, Metro supplement, Age, 15 November 1996, p B3.
  • Brady, “Windows to a wonder world”, p B3.
  • Sayers . “Melbourne: Olympic City in Party Dress”, p 2.
  • “Black and White” . In Herald 13 November 1956, p 3.
  • Boyd . “The state of Australian architecture”, p 459.
  • “Lights, Gaiety in Golden Mile”, p 2.
  • Sayers . “Melbourne: Olympic City in Party Dress”, p 2.
  • Letter from Murphy to Islip.
  • Letter from Murphy to Islip.
  • Serle . Robin Boyd: a life 150
  • Letter from Murphy to Islip.
  • Boyd , Robin . Transcripts of “What is Architecture?”, University of the Air, No 1, prepared for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1962, p 6, held Grounds, Romberg & Boyd Archives, Monash University.

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