Robin Boyd, multitasker:
In his office, he took advantage of his ambidexterity by writing with one hand and sketching with the other, sometimes while also talking on the phone.
One of the delightful details in Gideon Haigh’s profile of the late, great architect. Boyd’s scathing criticism of Toorak’s Tudor revival is also brilliant:
Decent, honest buildings cannot exist amongst this maudlin riot of half-timbered crenellated erections … scrapped together to make room for the village idiot … The result is a setting which would disgrace a tenth rate comic opera.
¶ Haigh’s article is in The Age (Melbourne) Magazine — unfortunately not available online.