“Walter Burley Griffin is best known in Australia for his connection with the design of the national capital, Canberra. Beyond architecture reveals the place of Walter Burley Griffin and his wife Marion Mahony, both as a couple and as individuals, in architectural and design history. Eminent authors from Australia and North America discuss the remarkable careers and lives of these two fascinating architects. They take us on a professional and spiritual journey from the Griffins’ years in the office of Frank Lloyd Wright in turn-of-the-century Chicago and successful independent practice in North America, to Australia in their pursuit of an ideal civic democracy, and finally to a revitalised practice in India, dramatically cut short by Walter’s untimely death in 1937.”
191 p. : ill. (some col.), ports, plans (some col.) ; 30 cm. #2010121
Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum, from 7 July 1998 for approx. 9 months.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-187) and index.
Griffin Chronology
Chicago 1900: The Griffins Come of Age / Paul Kruty
Marion Mahony as Originator of Griffin’s Mature Style: Fact or Myth? / Paul Sprague
Marion Mahony: A Larger than Life Presence / Anna Rubbo
Spirituality and Symbolism in the Work of the Griffins / James Weirick
The Landscape Art of Walter Burley Griffin / Christopher Vernon
Dreams of Equity, 1911-1924 / Jeffrey Turnbull
The Inside Story: Furniture and Lighting / Anne Watson
Creating a Modern Architecture for India / Paul Kruty
Pyrmont Incinerator and its Precedents / Peter Y. Navaretti
Looking Back on the Griffins / David Dolan.
Griffin, Marion Mahony, 1871-1961. | Griffin, Walter Burley, 1876-1937. | Architecture, Modern — 20th century. | Architects — Biography.