Anne Watson
Lund Humphries
Paperback
192
2000
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 revitalized practice in India dramatically cut short by Walter s untimely death in 1937.
Lund Humphries
Paperback
192
2000
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 revitalized practice in India dramatically cut short by Walter s untimely death in 1937.