Upcoming Events and Walsh Street House Tours
Our Walsh Street house tours are scheduled tthroughout the year and we host special Sunset Cocktail tours in autumn and spring. Our team are expanding our programming for 2022 with design talks, exhibitions, film screenings and musical performances – Become a Friend of the Foundation or subscribe (scroll to page footer) to be notified of upcoming events and activities.
Weekend Walsh Street Tour – Sat 28 May AM
Sat May 28th @ 11:00 am- 12:30 pm
Experience 'Walsh Street', the house Boyd designed for his own family in 1957, and his most well-known work. It has been extensively published both nationally and internationally as an exemplar of modernist Australian architecture and a house that..
Weekend Walsh Street Tour – Sat 28 May PM
Sat May 28th @ 13:30 pm- 15:00 pm
Experience 'Walsh Street', the house Boyd designed for his own family in 1957, and his most well-known work. It has been extensively published both nationally and internationally as an exemplar of modernist Australian architecture and a house that..
Walsh Street Tour – Thu 2 Jun - 1.30pm
Thu June 2nd @ 13:30 pm- 15:00 pm
Experience 'Walsh Street', the house Boyd designed for his own family in 1957, and his most well-known work. It has been extensively published both nationally and internationally as an exemplar of modernist Australian architecture and a house that..
Design Matters: Iwan Iwanoff, modernist architect
Thu June 9th @ 18:30 pm- 20:30 pm
Iwan Iwanoff's modernist architecture has always captivated photographer Jack Lovel. Having spent his formative years in a family home designed by the Bulgarian-born, German-trained visionary, the architect's aesthetic left a lasting impression. In..
Weekend Walsh Street Tour – Sat 18 June - 11am
Sat June 18th @ 11:00 am- 12:30 pm
Experience 'Walsh Street', the house Boyd designed for his own family in 1957, and his most well-known work. It has been extensively published both nationally and internationally as an exemplar of modernist Australian architecture and a house that..
Weekend Walsh Street Tour – Sat 18 June - 1.30p
Sat June 18th @ 13:30 pm- 15:00 pm
Experience 'Walsh Street', the house Boyd designed for his own family in 1957, and his most well-known work. It has been extensively published both nationally and internationally as an exemplar of modernist Australian architecture and a house that..
Design Matters on Campus (1 day Symposium)
Sun July 10th @ 10:30 am- 15:30 pm
Design Matters on Campus is a symposium exploring the intersections between architecture, landscape and the university experience, within Robin Boyd's Menzies College at La Trobe University.
In the late 1960s, La Trobe University rose..
Weekend Walsh Street Tour – Sat 16 July - 11am
Sat July 16th @ 11:00 am- 12:30 pm
Experience 'Walsh Street', the house Boyd designed for his own family in 1957, and his most well-known work. It has been extensively published both nationally and internationally as an exemplar of modernist Australian architecture and a house that..
Weekend Walsh Street Tour – Sat 16 July - 1.30p
Sat July 16th @ 13:30 pm- 15:00 pm
Experience 'Walsh Street', the house Boyd designed for his own family in 1957, and his most well-known work. It has been extensively published both nationally and internationally as an exemplar of modernist Australian architecture and a house that..
Past Events
2020 RBF Virtual Open Houses
Wed July 8th @ 09:00 am - Tue September 1st @ 08:59 am
Australian Residences | AIA chapter award winning and shortlisted houses
Now extended to 31 August
Whilst we're unable to host the much-loved and highly anticipated Robin Boyd Foundation / AIA Awards Open House day in its usual form this year,..
Landscaping the Domestic: Exhibition Talk
Sat March 27th @ 12:00 pm- 13:00 pm
Alongside the exhibition FRESH EYES: Reimagining Walsh Street, join us on Saturday 27th March for a series of short conversations with some of Melbourne’s leading architects around the theme of Landscaping the Domestic.
Due to Covid safe..
Book Launch: After the Australian Ugliness
Sun March 28th @ 18:00 pm- 20:30 pm
Robin Boyd’s The Australian Ugliness was published in 1960 and quickly took its place as a key work of architectural and cultural critique in the nation’s canon.
This new book published by the National Gallery of Victoria and Thames..