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
Cafe 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
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
1876 births
American architects
1937 deaths