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the Australian Ugliness [Import] [Paperback]

Robin Boyd (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Pelican / Penguin Books (1972)
  • ISBN-10: 0140700064
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140700060
  • Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,727,630 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars 50th anniversary re-issue, April 30, 2010
Great Book. Book titles do not come much more provocative than The Australian Ugliness, the caustic polemic penned by the architect Robin Boyd which was published in 1960. Boyd took aim at the unsightliness of post-war Australian suburban design, and what he described as its vulgar featurism: the gauche decorations, brick veneers and fussy stylistic embellishments that disfigured cul-de-sacs across the land

The 50th anniversary re-issue Published: 29 March 2010
Format: Paperback , 304 pages
AUD$34.95 ISBN-13: 9781921656224

And a 4 page diatribe by Stephen Lacey in the SMH and Sydney tastes [...]

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