l Stickland In 1962 R Davis was the occupier of and Osaka (1970). In 1969 Boyd was awarded the this property and in January 1973 Arumugam Gold Medal of the Australian Institute of Eajendran, a civil engineer, and his wife, Maria, Architecture and thS following year became 1 became the owners/. president of the RAIA . Glen Iris builder and artist, John Murphy, was born Boyd's better known works include McCaughey in Melbourne in 1917 and became a builder Court at Melbourne University (a seven-storey flat immediately after the Second World War forming! block) and the Fletcher house at Brighton, both of 14 partnership with Frank Green for several years' . which he won citations for . Publications by Boyd Murphy was introduced to Robyn Boyd through include Victorian Modern 1947, Australia's Home Arthur Boyd, a close friend of Murphy's4. Other 1952, The Australian Ugliness 1960, The Walls houses built by Murphy include the other Boyd Around Us 1961, Kenzo Tange 1962, and The Puzzle house at Walsh Street, South Ya!'"a and Browne's of Architecture 196515. residence, Toorak Road, Malvern . Robyn Boyd married Dorothea Madder in 1941 and Robyn Boyd was born in 1919, the son of Penleigh had three children one of which, Penleigh, is an Boyd, a well-known painter and member of one of architect. He died in 197116 Australia's most distinguished families of artists6 Educated at Malvern Church of England Grammar Description School he served his articles with prominent The plans for the new painted brick-veneer house architects, A. & K. Henderson and Partners while were as simple as the house itself, ruled lines on studying architecture at Melbourne Technic~l blueprint. Hugging the only available ground College and the Atelier at Melbourne University . outside of the 30' easement and the creek channel, On return from service in World War II he passed the plan was necessarily long and thin with the R V.I.A. examinations and was admitted as an split-level dining/living flanked by a servery Associate in 1946. kitchen and compact bathroom, as the centre of the Boyd formed a partnership with Kevin Pethebridge first section to be built. Sensibly for sun orientation, and Frank Bell during 194547 and became a tutor bedroom was at the south end and, on the north, at Melbourne University8 In 1946 he became the was a verandah. As with the Mcintyre Orion Stneet inaugural director of The AgeSmall Homes Service house, the floor was to be partly brick paving over which was run by the RV.LA. in conjunction with concrete and most of the exposed ceiling straw-like TheAge9 Solomit, both contributing to the show of natural Leaving the Small Homes Service in 1953, Boyd materials in the dedicatedly no- nonsense joined architects Roy Grounds and Frederick architecture. Adding to these natural materials was Romberg in a partnership that continued until the display of polished copper which hovered as a 1962, when Roy Grounds left the partnership''. hood over the fireplace. During this time he designed many innovative The next addition (1951) placed another bedroom buildings throughout Australia, including the on the south end and at the north, replacing the Richardson house, Blackfriars Close, Toorak, the verandah, was a study/living area and master Foy house, Beaumaris and the Wilson house, Kew. bedroom connected via a glazed entrance hall. This Melbourne then was virtually the capital of presumably separated adults from children. Modem architecture in Australia, and Grounds, In 1958 Boyd applied to build a simple carport near Romberg and Boyd were the undoubted focuslI the front boundary. In 1965-67 Boyd was the Visiting Professor of The periodical Smudges described the house two Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of years after completion as their House of the Year: I 2 Technology, U.S.A . He was the designer of the Australian displays at World Expo Montreal (1967) I BA 1958.22858; NTA EN. 5801 2 ibid.; D1962 3 NTA F.N. 580I 4 ibid. 5 ibid. 6 NTA F.N. 580I 7 ibid.; WWA 1968.p.iI3 8 NTA F.N. 5801 9 The Age, 12.11.l969,p.6 LO ibid.; WWA 1968.p.113 11 NTA F.N. 5801 12 ibid. 13 TheAge, 12.11.1969; The Age, 19. LO. 1970,p.2 14 TheAge,12.11.1%9 15 WWA 1968.p.113 16 lbid., HeraId16.10.1971. p.I CamberwelJ Conservation Study 1991 Areas ofthe small houseflow into each other. Differing External Integrity activities are separated but only rarely by a solid Generally original, given the above stages. partition. The resultant space is dynamic, its architectonic qualities limited by the designer's will. So Streelscape Contribution it is with the house. Areas merge, sometimes easily, sometimes dramatically. The effect is heightened by Unrelated to the streetscape. variation of colour, rexture (internal lining is, in part, Oregon, vertically)... Significance Architecturally, considered by Boyd's The description also notes cork tiles over the contemporaries as the prototype post-war Modem sla~ concrete in the living room (formerly confined house which took up new ideas ~bout spatial flow, to kitchens) , exposed face brick in some sections both inside and outside the building, reveling In and the unusual sloping east window wall which the minimalism required by the war's materials extended out nearly to the gutter line. Another conservation programme and the challenges p.osed article compared the plan as roughly the same as a by the near impossible site: of State and national railway train and showed pictures of the importance. suspended plywood ceiling beneath the gej't1y gabled Malthoid and white-gravel clad roofline . Historically, the first house designed f~r: and by, Australia's best known architectural critic, writer In 1975 a two storey wing was added to the south and post-war designer, Robin Boyd: of State and end but has little effect on the original house. national importance. The landscape to the east (on the easement) is mature and supportive of if not related to the house concept. House, 716 Riversdale Road, Camberwell Comparative Examples The following Camberwell sites may be compared with this site. 106,WHITEHORSE ROAn L«.W-l 1,MOt-.'TANASTREET, 1940 1.297, TOORAK ROAD, 194(1 91, ,\1AUD STREET,1940c 133,MAUD STREET, 1940(" 56, RIVERSIDEAVElvUE. 1940c 15,WALBUNDRYAVEl\:llE, 1940c 417·,WHITEHORSEROAD, 1940,. 113, YARRBAT AVEhl1E, 1940.. 123,MONT ALBERTROAD, 1941-2 2, BEATRICE STREET, 1941 6, BULLEfl','ROAD, 1941 171.DONCA.STERROAD, 1941 4, MAYSLA STREET, 1941 46,THE BOULEVARD, 1941 1, KELBA STREET,1941c 666, RIVERSDALE ROAD, 1946-7 StudyGrading: C 119, DONC.A.STER ROAD. 1948 1. KALONCA ROAD, 1948c Construction Date: 1937 166,ItVHITEHORSE ROAD, 1951-2 First Owner: Smith, Henry M law clerk 2, TAURUS STREET, 195Ic Builder: Bowen, M N 32 URSASTREET, 1951c 6, CARRIGALSTREET, 1952 43,KIREEPROAD, 1952 History 1,,\1ADD£NSTREET, 1952 2. G\RRIGAL STREET, 1954 M.N. Bowen, a builder, applied for a permit to 15,CARRICAL STREET, 1954 build a residence on this property in 1937'. Bowen 119,VVINMALEE ROAD, 1954 had been commissioned by Harry Melville Smith, a 14.ORION STREET, 1954c 3.2, BAL1-\ti1..' ROAD, 1955( law clerk, to construct a six roomed, brick an? 45A,.NARRAK ROAD, 19S5c timber dwelling at an estimated cost of £1,150 . Harry Smith resided here until the late 1940s In which time a section of the land became the Riversdale Tennis Courts (called the Kaydon 1 Smudges vol. 8, no, 53,1949 , 2 also in service areas with Semtext tiles in other rooms- no brick 3 Architecture &. The Arts 8,1954 p,28f 4 BA 1937,8547 5 ibid. Camberwell ConservationStudy 1991 Tennis Courts in 195<{ In 1950 Donald M. Berry 26, REID STREET, I938 660. Rn'ER5DALE ROAD, 1938 occupied the property . 66, THE BOULH:·...I<.D, 1938 130. H·HITEHORSE ROAD, 1938 Description H. CASC\0E 5TREET.l~39 24. CHRISrm".·ELSTREET-1939 A two storey Moderne style house clad with I, ,\-fOLL\'TAIX ,\'IEVVROAD, 1939 clinker brickwork and surrounded by landscape of .1,3, YUILLE STREET, 1939 43. CASC·WE STREET, 1939.-:' the period. Hipped-roof in form, the stair-hall provides contrasting parapelled element to the composition External Integrity with another, at a lower level, provided by an open Generally original. terrace over a front room, Window joinery is steel, with some timber, while balustrading is Streetscape Contribution ornamental wrought-iron, typical of the era. The fence is original. Typical of the large houses along Riversdale Road and part of the Camberwell Estate on the south. Comparative Examples Significance The following Camberwell sites may be compared with this site. Architecturallv, a good and intact example of the Modeme style, prominently sited on the perimeter 9, BOST01\' ROi\D, 1930 of and contributory to a contemporary estate: of 396, CAA1'BERltVELLROA.D, 1930 regional interest. 460, CA2"fBERVVELLROAD,1930 16, AlUS"h'ELL HILL 1930 Historically, evocative of the 3, BRENBE.A.L STREET, 1930, professional/managing classes associated with 177, DO?\,'CASTERROAD, 1930( 816-821, RlVERSDALE ROAD, 1930, Camberwell: of local importance. 4$-!, V'.i\RF1CdL RO.'iD, lil30, 359, I-VHlTEHORSE RO.'\D, 1930,· 397-399, V'v'HlTEHORSE ROi\D, Lil30t" House, 497, vVHJTEHORSE ROAD, 1930( 718 Riversdale Road, Camberwell 35, BAD\/"(!\' ROAD, 1931.2 1292 TOORAKROA,D, 1931-2 11.CH.'\TFlELD .A.VE1\'UE, 1932·3 1i, CHRISTOhH STREET, 1932 3, F!!\'SBURY RDA,D, 1932 7, ,HURlEL STREET, 1932( 4, m\:SBURYl·,,:>1.Y, 1933 125, HICHFfELD ROAD, 1933 1, J\1APU CRESCEXT, 1933 14, STODDART STREET, 1933 7. A1A.!\'GA.";STREET, 1933( 11, FA1R.J.HOl<T AVE0.'UE, 1934-5 87-87.1.