(Not So) Anti-Architecture

Introduction by Naomi Stead. Archival Text by Robin Boyd.

Robin Boyd was the most famous architecture critic Australia ever produced. Elsewhere, no matter our restless global culture, he is largely forgotten. A Boyd rediscovery might well start with his 1968 essay “Antiarchitecture” — a bracing and still relevant call for architects to cast aside their perennial political timidity.

Robin Boyd was the most famous architecture critic Australia ever produced. In a still relevant essay from 1968, he calls for architects to cast aside their perennial political timidity.

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Shannon Mattern

Shannon Mattern is a columnist for Places. She is Associate Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School in New York.

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Barbara Penner

Barbara Penner is a columnist for Places. She is Senior Lecturer in Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

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Despina Stratigakos

Despina Stratigakos, an associate professor at the University of Buffalo, is a columnist for Places and author of Where Are the Women Architects? and other books on architectural history.

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Keith Eggener

Keith Eggener is a columnist for Places. He is Marion Dean Ross Professor of Architectural History at the University of Oregon.

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