Walter Burley Griffin

Walter Burley Griffin (November 24, 1876 – February 11, 1937) was an American architect and landscape architect. He designed Canberra, Australia. He also designed the New South Wales towns of Griffith and Leeton. He made the L-shaped floor plan. The L-shaped floor plan was the carport and an innovation of reinforced concrete.

Walter Burley Griffin
Walter Burley Griffin in 1912
Born	(1876-11-24)November 24, 1876 Maywood, Illinois
Died	February 11, 1937(1937-02-11) (aged 60) Lucknow, India
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Occupation	Architect
Years active	1890s–1930s
Known for	Prairie School
Notable work	Design/plan of Canberra, Australia and Griffith, Australia
Spouse	Marion Mahony Griffin (m. 1911)

Major works

India

• Library in University of Lucknow, in Lucknow city in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India
• Dr Bhatia's Residence, is still extant in Lucknow city in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India

United States

• G.B. Cooley House, 1908 South Grand St., Monroe, Louisiana
• Alfred W. Hebert House Remodeling, 1902, Evanston, Illinois
• W.H. Emery House, 1903, Elmhurst, Illinois
• Adolph Mueller House, 1906
• John Dickinson House, 10034 Cienega Road Hollister, California 1906
• Mary H. Bovee Apartment, 1907
• John Gauler House, 5917-5921 N. Magnolia Ave., Chicago, Illinois, 1908
• William S. Orth House, 1908, Winnetka, Illinois
• Edmund C. Garrity House, 1909
• Ralph Griffin House, 1909, Edwardsville, Illinois
• Edmund C. Garrity House, 1712 W. 104th Place, Chicago, Illinois, 1909
• William B. Sloan House, 1910
• Frank N. Olmstead House, 1624 W. 100th Place, Chicago, Illinois, 1910
• Harry N. Tolles House, 10561 S. Longwood Drive, Chicago, Illinois, 1911
• Harry G. Van Nostrand House, 1666 W. 104th Place, Chicago, Illinois, 1911
• Russell L. Blount House I, 1724 W. 104th Place, Chicago, Illinois, 1911
• Benjamin J. and Mabel T. Ricker House, 1510 Broad Street, Grinnell, Iowa, 1911-1912
• Joshua Melson House, 1912, Mason City, Iowa
• Russel L. Blount House II, 1950 W. 102nd Street, Chicago, Illinois, 1912–1913
• Jenkinson House, 1727 W. 104th Place, Chicago, Illinois, 1912–1913
• Walter D. Salmon House, 1736 W. 104th Place, Chicago, Illinois, 1912–1913
• Newland house, 1737 W. 104th Place, Chicago, Illinois, 1913
• Ida E. Williams House, W. 104th Place, Chicago, Illinois (based on the Von Nostrand plans, built by Blount), 1913
• William R. Hornbaker House, 1710 W. 104th Place, Chicago, Illinois, (based on the Von Nostrand plans, built by Blount), 1914
• James Frederic Clarke House, 1731 W. 104th Place, Chicago, Illinois, (based on the Von Nostrand plans, built by Blount), 1913
• Harry C. Furneaux House, 1741 W. 104th Place, Chicago, Illinois, (based on the Salmon House plans, built by Blount), 1913
• James Blyth House, Mason City, Iowa
• Stinson Memorial Library, Anna, Illinois

Australia

• Canberra plan, 1914–1920
• Leeton town plan, 1914
• Griffith town plan, 1914
• Eaglemont town plan, 1915
• Paris Theatre, Sydney, 1915 (demolished 1981)
• Newman College, University of Melbourne, 1916–1918
• Café Australia, Melbourne, 1916
• Pholiota, in Eaglemont, Victoria 1920
• Capitol Theatre, Melbourne 1924
• Palais de danse, St Kilda 1925 (destroyed by fire)
• Leonard House, Elizabeth Street Melbourne 1925 (demolished)
• Ranelagh, town plan, 1924
• Langi Flats, Toorak 1925-26
• Castlecrag, suburb plan, 1925
• Fishwick House, completed in 1929
• Castle Cove, suburb plan, 1930
• Willoughby Incinerator, completed 1932
• Duncan House (Castlecrag), completed 1934
• Eric Pratten House, in Pymble, Sydney, completed 1936
• Hindmarsh Incinerator, South Australia, completed 1936
• Pyrmont Incinerator, completed 1936 (demolished 1992)
• Thebarton Incinerator, South Australia, completed 1937
• Walter Burley Griffin Incinerator, Ipswich, completed 1992

Gallery

• 
  Newman College, Melbourne
• 
  Newman College: interior of the dining room
• 
  Capitol Theatre, Melbourne
• 
  Grave of General Bridges in Canberra
• 
  The incinerator in the suburb of Brompton, South Australia, known by the name of the adjacent suburb, Hindmarsh
• 
  The incinerator in the suburb of Thebarton, South Australia
• 
  Eric Pratten House, also called Coppins, in Pymble, Sydney

References

Citations

• Griffin, Marion Mahony; Griffin, Walter Burley (1998). Beyond Architecture: Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin : America, Australia, India. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-1-86317-068-0. OCLC 40398084.
• Solomonson, Katherine (2003). The Chicago Tribune Tower Competition: Skyscraper Design and Cultural Change in the 1920s. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-76800-7.

General references

• Birrell, James. 1964. Walter Burley Griffin. University of Queensland Press
• Gebhard, David & Gerald Mansheim, Buildings of Iowa, Oxford University Press, New York, 1993
• Gebhard, David. "The Suburban House and the Automobile." The Car and the city: The Automobile, the Built Environment and Daily Urban Life. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991: 106,123.
• Kruty, Paul. 2000. Griffin, Walter Burley. American National Biography Online. Oxford University Press
• MacMahon, Bill (2001). The Architecture of East Australia. Edition Axel Menges. ISBN 3-930698-90-0.
• Mason City Iowa, An Architectural Heritage, Department of Community Development, City of Mason, Iowa, 1977
• Maldre, Mati and Paul Kruty, Walter Burley Griffin in America, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1996
• McGregor, Alasdair, 'Grand Obsessions: The life and work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, Penguin/Lantern, Camberwell, Victoria, 2009
• Walker, M., Kabos, A. and Weirick, J. (1994) Building for nature : Walter Burley Griffin and Castlecrag, Castlecrag, N.S.W. : Walter Burley Griffin Society (ISBN 0-646-18133-5)
• Wilson, Richard Guy and Sidney K. Robinson, The Prairie School in Iowa, Iowa State University Press, Ames, 1977

Further reading

• Brooks, H. Allen, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School, Braziller (in association with the Cooper-Hewitt Museum), New York 1984; ISBN 0-8076-1084-4
• Brooks, H. Allen, The Prairie School, W.W. Norton, New York 2006; ISBN 0-393-73191-X
• Brooks, H. Allen (editor), Prairie School Architecture: Studies from "The Western Architect", University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Buffalo 1975; ISBN 0-8020-2138-7
• Brooks, H. Allen, The Prairie School: Frank Lloyd Wright and his Midwest Contemporaries, University of Toronto Press, Toronto 1972; ISBN 0-8020-5251-7
• Griffin, Dustin (editor), The Writings of Walter Burley Griffin, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne 2008; ISBN 978-0-521-89713-6
• Townsend, Danielle, ed. (December 2008). "Walter Burley Griffin Lodge". Australian Period Style (3). Universal Magazines: 80–85. ISSN 1441-5259.
• Page, Walter Hines; Page, Arthur Wilson (July 1914). "The March of the Cities: A Young American Architect Building A New Capital For Australia". The World's Work: A History of Our Time. XLIV (2): 351–352. Retrieved August 4, 2009.
• McGregor, Alasdair, 'Grand Obsessions: The life and work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin', Penguin/Lantern, Camberwell, Victoria, 2009 ISBN 978-1-920989-38-5
• Turnbull, J. and Navaretti, P. (eds), The Griffins in Australia and India: the complete works of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, Miegunyah Press, Melbourne 1998; ISBN 0-5228-4830-3

Other websites

• Walter Burley Griffin Society (Australia) Archived 2019-05-21 at the Wayback Machine
• Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin architectural drawings, circa 1909-1937.Held by the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
• The Griffin Legacy, National Capital Authority
• Imagining Canberra in Chicago from the ABC
• Reading the past in the Walter Burley Griffin Incinerator and Fishwick House at Willoughby, NSW (educational resources)
• Castlecrag Progress Association
• "Paris Theatre". Dictionary of Sydney. Dictionary of Sydney Trust. 2008. Retrieved October 11, 2015.[CC-By-SA]
• Great Buildings Online: works of Walter Burley Griffin (includes links to W.H.Emery House, 1903; Ralph Griffin House, 1909; Adolph Mueller House, 1906; Joshua Melson House, 1912; and Stinson Memorial Library, 1913)
• Walter Burley Giffiin, The Prairie School of Architecture
• Stinson Memorial Public Library (includes history of Stinson Library construction)
• The Walter Burley Griffin Society of America
• Mary Mahoney Griffin's Manuscript, The Magic of America: Ryerson & Burnham Libraries: Archives Collection
• Walter Burley Griffin at Find a Grave

National Library of Australia:

• Eric Milton Nicholls collection
• Papers of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony collected by Eric Nicholls, 1900–1947
• The Donald Leslie Johnson collection of Walter and Marion Griffin documents, 1901–1988
• The work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin in Melbourne, 1975 a collection of photographs by Wolfgang Sievers of works by Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin taken in 1975

Online exhibitions

• Walter Burley Griffin: in his own right, Public Broadcasting Service
• An Ideal City? The 1912 Competition to Design Canberra an online exhibition developed by the National Archives of Australia, National Library of Australia and the National Capital Authority