Endnotes
1
Conrad Hamann, ‘The architect as public intellectual’, in Rory Hyde, Future Practice. Conversations from the Edge of Architecture (Routledge: London 2012), 208.
2
‘The Boyd/Gropius letters’, Transition no 38, (1992): 119-134.
3
Frederick Romberg changed the family name to Romney in the 1980s.
4
Grounds to Romberg, November 6, 1950, letter, RMIT Design Archives, Romney Archive.
5
Frederick Romberg, ‘The Gromboyd Letters’, typescript, 8-9, RMIT Design Archives, Romney Archive.
6
Serle, Robin Boyd. A Life, 145.
7
Serle, Robin Boyd. A Life, 145.
8
Romberg, ‘The Gromboyd Letters’, 12.
9
Romberg, ‘The Gromboyd Letters’, 33.
10
Serle, Robin Boyd. A Life, 145-6.
11
For Boyd’s year in America, see Serle, Robin Boyd. A Life, 159ff.
12
Boyd to Romberg, letter, February 17, 1957, RMIT Design Archives, Romney Archive.
13
Romberg to Boyd, letter, February 6, 1957, RMIT Design Archives, Romney Archive.
14
Serle, Robin Boyd. A Life, 178.
15
Serle, Robin Boyd. A Life, 178.
16
Romberg to Boyd, October 22, 1956 RMIT Design Archives, Romney Archive.
17
Romberg to Boyd, October 22, 1956, RMIT Design Archives, Romney Archive.
18
Grounds to Boyd, October 26, 1956, RMIT Design Archives, Romney Archive.
19
Boyd to Grounds and Romberg, November 14, 1956, RMIT Design Archives. Romney Archive.
20 Grounds to Boyd, November, 27, 1956, RMIT Design Archives Romney Archive. 21
Boyd to the Gromboyd office, January 31, 1957, RMIT Design Archives, Romney Archive.
22
Serle, Robin Boyd. A Life, 179.
23
Grounds to Boyd, February 13, 1957, RMIT Design Archives, Romney Archive.
24 Boyd to Romberg, February 17, 1957, RMIT Design Archives, Romney Archive. 25
Romberg to Boyd, May 20, 1957, RMIT Design Archives, Romney Archive.
26
Romberg, ‘The Gromboyd Letters’, 135-36, RMIT Design Archives, Romney Archive.
27
Romberg, ‘The Gromboyd Letters’, 136 RMIT Design Archives, Romney Archive
28
Romberg, ‘The Gromboyd Letters’, 137, RMIT Design Archives, Romney Archive.
29
Romberg, ‘The Gromboyd Letters’, 139, RMIT Design Archives, Romney Archive.
30 Romberg, ‘The Gromboyd Letters’, 139 RMIT Design Archives, Romney Archive. 31
Kent Kleinman, “Archiving/Architecture”, Archival Science 1: (2001), 321.
32
Kleinman, “Archiving/Architecture”, 321.
33
Kleinman, “Archiving/Architecture”, 322.
34 None of this complexity is apparent in a recent assessment of the building, see Kate Gray, ‘Sidney Myer Music Bowl’, in Australia Modern eds. Hannah Lewi and Philip Goad (Port Melbourne: Thames & Hudson 2019), 146-7. 35
Grounds to Boyd, November 14, 1963, letter, RMIT Design Archives, Romney Archive. 95
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