Relaxed And Comfortable: The Australian Pavilion At Expo '67

摘要

In the mid-twentieth century, Robin Boyd was at the forefront of efforts to further design activity in Australia. His concern for mass taste and desire to promote modernism to the Australian community strongly informed the interior of Australia's Montreal pavilion. Design was the substance and framework for Australia's claims to cultural capital, the overall exhibition schema and assembled artifacts effecting a purposeful reconstruction of Australian national identity under the influence of the nation's changing external circumstances. Such historical change was not novel to Australia.