Australia’s Home by Robin Boyd

Since its first publication by Melbourne University Press Australia’s Home has been in constant demand. Boyd summarises history, from 1788 to 1960, as ‘a material triumph and an aesthetic calamity’. Readers have thoroughly enjoyed the combination of informative detail and quiet humour, and the architectural features of a house, a street, or a suburb, which have up until now been simply ‘different’, gain an added interest and significance.