The Robin Boyd Foundation has launched a design competition, The Walls Around Us, inviting students to imagine a new way of living, inspired by the ideas of Robin Boyd.
The winner will receive a trip to Venice for the 2023 Architecture Biennale, courtesy of sponsor Brickworks Building Products.
The competition takes its name from Robin Boyd’s book, The Walls Around Us, which provides a popular history of Australian architecture.
“Students are asked to design a minimum of two houses on the site of the famous Boyd house in Walsh Street South Yarra – the design proposals should be inspired by the exuberance and invention of the existing house but in the spirit of Robin Boyd,” said Patrick Kennedy, director of Kennedy Nolan and a member of the Boyd Circle Leadership Group. The proposals should also tackle contemporary issues of sustainability, housing security, repair of country and our pre-colonial past.
Robin Boyd’s architectural drawings of Walsh Street, 1957.
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Courtesy of Robin Boyd Foundation
Entrants should use the “environmentally friendly merits” of brickwork and blockwork to create a multi-residential design
The competition is open to all students enrolled in an architectural course in Australia. The competition will be judged by Eve Castle, Brickworks business development manager; Philip Goad, chair of architecture at the University of Melbourne and director of the Robin Boyd Foundation ; and architect Simon Pendal.
Entries are open until Monday 30 January 2023. For more information or to enter, visit the Robin Boyd Foundation website.
Source: Architecture - architectureau
