Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side to let the serious business of living proceed without distraction.

Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens.

Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side to let the serious business of living proceed without distraction.

Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.

We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.

Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral.

The suburb was the major element of Australian society.