Publication Details Dimensions 250 mm x 195 mm, portrait, 296 pages, hardback. ISBN:9781760761899
Author and/or Editor name/s Naomi Stead, Tom Lee, Ewan McEoin and Megan Patty with contributors
Author and/or Editor bio/s Naomi Stead is Director of the Design and Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform as well as a Professor at RMIT, Professor of Architecture at Monash University, Adjunct Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Queensland, and past president of the Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand.
Thomas Lee is Senior Lecturer in Design Studies in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney
Ewan McEoin is the Hugh D. T. Williamson Senior Curator of Contemporary Design and Architecture at the NGV. He was part of the senior curatorial team for Melbourne Now (2013) and the NGV Triennial (2017 and 2020) and has curated the annual NGV Architecture Commission program since 2015.
Megan Patty is Head of Publications, Photographic Services and Library at the NGV and founding curator of the Melbourne Art Book Fair.
Year of Publication 2021
Publisher National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and Thames & Hudson Australia
Abstract Robin Boyd’s The Australian Ugliness was published in 1960 and quickly took its place as a key work of architectural and cultural critique in the nation’s canon. This new book responds to Boyd’s most well-known text with new critical and creative writing by authors from a range of disciplines. Through different styles and approaches, each author makes Boyd’s work live in the contemporary moment, exploring enduring questions about the elusive, sometimes lucky and sometimes ugly character of Australia today. Richly illustrated with new photography by David Wadelton and drawings by Oslo Davis, After The Australian Ugliness is a provocative reflection on how Australia sees itself today, and how others see it.
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