Walter Burley Griffin

Walter Burley Griffin (November 24, 1876February 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.

 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 1936Building Details - Architects of South Australia > Hindmarsh Incinerator Accessed May 13, 2014.
 Pyrmont Incinerator, completed 1936 (demolished 1992)
 Thebarton Incinerator, South Australia, completed 1937Building Details - Architects of South Australia > Thebarton Incinerator Accessed May 13, 2014.
 Walter Burley Griffin Incinerator, Ipswich, completed 1992

 Gallery 

 References 

 References 

 Citations 




 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

 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 ()
 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; 
 Brooks, H. Allen, The Prairie School, W.W. Norton, New York 2006;  
 Brooks, H. Allen (editor), Prairie School Architecture: Studies from "The Western Architect", University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Buffalo 1975;  
 Brooks, H. Allen, The Prairie School: Frank Lloyd Wright and his Midwest Contemporaries, University of Toronto Press, Toronto 1972;  
 Griffin, Dustin (editor), The Writings of Walter Burley Griffin, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne 2008; 


 McGregor, Alasdair, 'Grand Obsessions: The life and work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin', Penguin/Lantern, Camberwell, Victoria, 2009 
 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; 

 Other websites 

 Walter Burley Griffin Society (Australia) 
 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
 [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


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

Category:1876 births
Category:American architects
Category:1937 deaths