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    araors HOME PAGE INTRODUCING THE GRIFFINS: GALLERY LIVES & WORKS EDUCATION| ‘CONSERVATION NEWS & EVENTS ‘ABOUT US Water Burley Grifin Society - Welter Burley Grifin Walter Burley Griffin United States (1899-1916) Australia (1914-1935 India (1935-1937) Architect, landscape architect, planner Born: Maywood, Illinois, USA ‘24 November 1876 Died: Lucknow, Incia 11 February 1937 Buried at Lucknow, India Bon and ralsed near Cncago Walter Burley Grifin (1876-1937) was the test of four cldren, He worked as an architect landscape architect and‘: Dear wake, planner inthe United States, Australa and inca, His professional career _tawten shasta panned nearly forty years: the early yeas asa young arehtect in turn of the | yotser 032 Century Chicago (1699-1914), the folowing twenty years in Australia (1914~ 1995) and the last two years incle (1995-1939) before his untimely death In Inia aged 59 SSowearor Syceets Waker Burley Grfin was inspre by ideas of equity and democracy and ®—fimaaiy a” passionate regard for nature In 1900, as.a recent orentectural graduate, ‘Maura cheaelirs, walter Burley Griffin, inspired by Louis Sullivan, resolved to create his own ro kind of modern architecture independent of pst styles. When Grin entered the design fla, nature was to be his great source of npiration. The young architect worked for Frank Lloyé Wright, and we have a sense that NS work at that me was suffused withthe “spt of Nature’ in the gret radon of the American trenscendentalsts, Emetson and Thoreau. This wes combined With 2 Search for pure forma geometric, abstract ideal-inspred by the pattems of mature, Thi love of nature was evgent not onl in his and Marion Mahony Grin’ work, Dut also in ther Ives, (Welre, na talk to Castecreg Conservation Society, 30 July 1997.) United States (1899-1914) Griffin's visits as a school student in 1893 to the World Columbian Exposition which became known as the Chicago Fair were inspirational for him, and he was motivated to become a landscape architect. However there was no tultion In this discipline at the time so he studied architecture instead, graduating in 1899 from the University of Ilnois. His fist job was in the office of architect Dwight Perkins in Steinway Hall, Chicago where some of the most progressive architects also hac their ofices. For the next two years he worked on a casual basis for a number of the Steinway group, until going to Frank Lloye Wright's (ak Park studio where he became an important assistant working there from 1901 to 1905, The working relationship at the Oak Park studio was informal ‘and allowed Walter Griffin to undertake his own personal commissions, the ‘most significant of which was the Emery House at Elmhurst where his handling of form reveals originality and an independence from Wright's work. Walter Griffin left Frank Lloyd Wright's office in late 1905 and set up his own private practice at Steinway Hal. By 1909 he had a wide variety of commissions including over 12 houses, a dubhouse and a library. Stinson Memorial Library at Anna, Illnois convincingly demonstrates his Independent Interpretation of the Sullivan-Wrightian philosophy. The form and mass of the library are without discernible precedent except for perhaps the Pre-Columbian buildings of the Mayans abaut which he had a great interest (Harrison, p.22). When Frank Llayd Wright closed his studio and went to Europe in September 1909, he left his practice to Hermann Von Holst who promptly engages architect Marion Mahony to design the more difficult commissions. Walter Griffin was commissioned by them to design a landscape plan for Millkin Place, 2 proposal with three large houses in a private street in Decatur, Ilinols. Every weekend in the summer months from 1909 to 1911, Mahony and Griffin would go on extended canoeing expeditions exploring the streams and rivers of Ilinois. On June 29, 1911 they married in Michigan City, indiana. In 1911 Walter Grifin had the opportunity to combine his talents as both architect and landscape architect in the one project at Mason City, Towa, There in an 18 acre site straddling a ravine that included a disused quarry that was Conventionally thought of as impracticable for subdivision, Griffin designed a subdivision for 19 houses called Rock Crest~Rock Glen that respected the inherent qualities of the site and restored that natural landscape with psn gifisociey orghntroducing_the_Grifinywbe him! 1 araors Water Burley Grifin Society - Welter Burley Grifin extensive revegetation and community reserves. The scheme planned by Walter Griffin was not implemented in its entizety but the Melson House built to his design has been described by Wayne Andrews in 1955 as “one of the Irreplaceable houses of the twentieth century" (Harrison, p.23), Within weeks of their marriage, the Griffins embarked on the design and presentation of their entry for the international competition for the design of the Australia’s federal capital. There were 137 entries from around the world, land the Griffins’ Entry No 29 was announced by the Minister for Home Affars, King O'Malley on 23 May 1912 as the winner. By the time Walter and Marion Griffin let Chicago for Australia in 1914 to create the new capital city, he had produced a remarkable body of work of more than 130 designs with about half of them that were realized (Kruty, p15). totop Australia (1914-1935) In the twenty years they lived in Australia, the Griffins’ remarkable architectural partnership produced over 250 project designs including the capital city, several towns, suburban estates, various civic buildings, a ‘university college, cinemas, theatres, industrial and commercial buildings, domestic houses, furniture and interiors (Turnbull & Navaretti, page xvii) Walter Griffin was appointed Federal Capital Director of Design and Construction and arrived with Marion Griffin and his relatives, the Lippincotts, In Sydney In May 1914. The federal capital Canberra was to be built on sheep

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