Roy Grounds
Sir Roy Burman Grounds (18 December 1905 to 7 March 1981), was one of Australia's leading architects of the modern movement.
Houses
Leyser House (1951) Hume Street (formerly known as Studley Street) Triangular House
Source: Photo by Peter Wille, State Library Victoria, Pictures collection -- http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/pictoria/gid/slv-pic-aab59397 Additional photos by Lyle Fowler (thumbnails) http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/pictoria/gid/slv-pic-aab85556, http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/pictoria/gid/slv-pic-aab85556/1/a38549 and http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/pictoria/gid/slv-pic-aab85556/1/a38550
This was Melbourne's first house on a triangular plan, now noted in the the RAIA Twentieth Century Buildings Register.
Biographical Links
Australian Dictionary of Biography http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A170466b.htm
http://users.tce.rmit.edu.au/e03159/ModMelb/mm2/modmelbprac2/rg/groundsbio.htm
Hamann, Conrad, Grounds, Romberg and Boyd in Tanner, Howard, Architects of Australia, South Melbourne. Macmillan, 1981 (Book)
Cuffley, Peter, Australian Houses of the Twenties and Thirties, The Five Mile Press, Melbourne, 1989 (includes Leyser Triangle House)
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