Wright House II by Robin Boyd

rtist Penleigh Boyd is suggested to have done his best work painting plein-air on the banks of the Birrarung/Yarra River, in the bushy outer Melbourne suburb of Warrandyte. His son, architect Robin Boyd, spent his earliest years here, scrambling around the garden of a picturesque cottage his father had designed and built near the river before he tragically passed away in a car accident when Robin was four years old. Warrandyte would have an enduring hold on Robin Boyd; over the course of his life, he designed and built at least seven houses in the area (excluding Small Homes Service projects), all of which were for artists. Many of the early houses followed a “Warrandyte idiom” characterized by rough-sawn