Robin and Patricia Boyd visited Sweden in September 1950 as part of their long European trip, shipping their Morris Minor from England to Gothenburg, driving across the country to Stockholm and leaving via Malmo on their way to Denmark. Boyd was particularly enthused by Stockholm, and re-arranged his itinerary to allow him more time in the city. Sweden, neutral in the Second World War, did not suffer the destruction of the rest of Europe, and had continued to build throughout the 1940s. In this period, Stockholm embarked on a housing program that captivated Boyd with its density and pared-back functionalist apartment designs. While in town, Boyd extensively photographed these apartment buildings, and would write about them often on his return to Australia. Other places of particular interest to Boyd included the functionalist Soder Hospital and Sven Markellius’ Villa Myrdal .