Heritage architecture: Robin Boyd Aus

Kitchen with built-in cupboards and timber benchtops architectureauJoseph Eichler’s name became synonymous with the single-family, modern homes that helped define suburban Los Angeles and San Fran­cisco from 1949 on. Hiring progressive archit­ects, his designs fo­cused both on modern Californian taste and on pleasant Calif­ornian climates. So his designs grab­bed attent­ion: streamlined kitchen built-ins, multi-purpose room adjoining the kitchen, radiant-heated floors, wood panelling, gabled ceilings, floor-to-ceiling glass walls and the classic atrium that melded indoor-outdoor living. NB the post-&-beam construction, and open floor plans de­signed around the cen­tral atrium. The California Modern style was indebted to Frank Lloyd Wright & Mies van der Rohe Soon after Eichler in the USA, Robin Boyd started to de­sign his version of Californian Modern in Australia, mainly from the mid 1950s on. But one home over 2 lots in Tannock St in Bal­wyn, in Mel­b­ourne’s leafy east, was a very…