Walter Burley Griffin (1876 - 1937)

Born 24 Nov 1876 in Maywood, Illinois, United States

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Died 11 Feb 1937 at age 60 in Lucknow, India

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Biography

Walter Burley Griffin (1876-1937), ^[1] architect, landscape architect and designer of Canberra, was born on 24 November 1876 at Maywood, near Chicago, United States of America, eldest of four children of George Walter Griffin, insurance agent, and his wife Estelle Melvina, née Burley. Griffin attended high school at Oak Park, graduated B.Sc. from Nathan Ricker's renowned school of architecture at the University of Illinois in 1899 and was admitted as an associate of the American Institute of Architects.

He first worked as a casual employee of Dwight Heald Perkins and other architects in Chicago's Steinway Hall, then in 1901-06 as an associate of Frank Lloyd Wright at Oak Park. He also undertook private commissions, the most notable of which were the Emery house (1903) and the landscape designs for the grounds of the state normal schools of Eastern Illinois (1901) and Northern Illinois (1906).

He married Marion Lucy Mahoney on 29 June 1911.^[1] They had no children.^[1]

In May 1912, Walter won the international design competition for the design of Australia's capital city, Canberra.^[1]

Walter died in Lucknow, India on 11 February 1937, suffering peritonitis.^[1]

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Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4}
   Peter Harrison, Griffin, Walter Burley (1876–1937), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University,
   published first in hardcopy 1983, accessed online 19 March 2018.

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