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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 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-20th-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.
During the forty or so years of their architectural practice, the Griffins embarked on over 350 building, landscape and urban design projects as well as designing interior schemes, furniture, lighting, floor coverings and tableware. But their legacy extends beyond the architectural – the democratic, social and environmental ideals which informed their work and lives, continues to inspire today.
Softcover, 191 pages
