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Extant writing on Robin Boyd is made up of a biography by Geoffrey Serle (1991), two intelligent books on his design work (Baracco and Wright’s 2018 Robin Boyd: Spatial Continuity and Raisbeck and Phillips’ 2020 Robin Boyd: Late Works), and journal issues (a 1992 edition of RMIT University’s Transition and a 2019 issue of the RMIT Design Archives Journal with the eclectic mix of stuff such special issues are made of). And there is an exhibition catalogue from 1989, Robin Boyd: The Architect as Critic. There are also conference papers and other academic journal articles,

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