When Robin Boyd Went to Japan ? an exhibition  inspired by mid-century everyday life in Japan will open at Walsh Street on February 18th.  
Curated by Marika Neustupny and Nigel Bertram, When Robin Boyd Went to Japan is a  collaboration between the Robin Boyd Foundation, NMBW Architecture Studio and CIBI.  
Robin Boyd visited Japan in the 1960s, wrote about Japanese architects of that time, and  was Exhibition Architect for the Australian Pavilion at the Osaka Expo ?70. 
This inhabitation of Walsh Street has been inspired by thinking about everyday life in  Japan during the period Boyd was visiting and writing about Japanese architecture. The  1960s was an era when Japanese architects? voices were beginning to be heard  internationally; Boyd was both part of the dissemination of knowledge regarding Japanese  design, and indisputably influenced by the work he saw. A significant topic of discussion  within Japanese design culture at the time was how the beauty and specificity of everyday  life in Japan could be retained whilst huge post-war social and economic change was  taking place; urban reconstruction, modernisation and westernisation all at once.  ?By exploring physical models of selected Japanese architect-designed houses from  the 1950s to 1970s are presented, as well as 1:1 adaptations of Walsh Street, including  bringing Japanese designer items into the home and making a library space for  displaying documents from Boyd?s travels ? we can imagine ...