The Writings of Walter Burley Griffin
The Writings of Walter Burley Griffin
Dustin Griffin
, New York University
May 2008
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Walter Burley Griffin (1876–1937) was a distinguished modernist American architect, landscape architect and town planner. His work attracted world-wide attention in 1912 when he won the international competition to design a new capital city for Australia. Griffin was also a prolific lecturer and writer. In this edition, his 71 pieces of writing have been thematically categorised under ten headings to reflect the variety and interrelations of his professional interests: Canberra; Town and Campus Planning; Residential Communities; Designing the House; Building the House; Landscape Architecture; Public Buildings; India; Architecture and Politics and the Future of Architecture. At a time when Griffin's design for Canberra has attracted renewed attention, this canon of his work provides unparalleled access to his thinking about architecture and town planning.
- It is the first time that Griffin's writings have been collected
- There is a critical essay introducing the edition
- Each of the essays has been contextualised by the editor to provide insight and analysis
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- List of illustrations
- Introduction
- Part I. Canberra:
- 1. 'Commonwealth of Australia. Design for the Lay-Out of the Federal Capital City' (1912)
- 2. Interview in New York Times (1912)
- 3. 'Commonwealth of Australia Federal Capital Competition' (1912)
- 4. 'Planning a Federal Capital City Complete' (1912)
- 5. Letter to King O'Malley (1913)
- 6. Interview in The Age (1913)
- 7. Letter to William Kelly (1913)
- 8. The Federal Capital: Report Explanatory of the Preliminary General Plan (1913)
- 9. Interview in Advance Australia (1913)
- 10. 'Canberra: The Architectural and Development Possibilities of Australia's Capital City' (1913)
- 11. 'Canberra II: The Federal City Site and its Architectural Possibilities' (1913)
- 12. Interview in Construction News (1913)
- 13. Address to Chicago Asso. of Commerce and Industry (1914)
- 14. 'The Canberra Plan' (1914)
- 15. 'Termination by the Government of Engagement of Walter Burley Griffin as Director of Design and Construction' (1921)
- 16. 'Canberra Founded on National Sentiment' (1927)
- 17. 'Canberra in Occupation' (1934)
- Part II. Town and Campus Planning:
- 1. 'Town Planning and Architecture as related thereto' (1913)
- 2. Contribution to a discussion of 'Chicago and the Ferguson Fund' (1914)
- 3. 'University of Sydney. General Plan' (1915)
- 4. 'The City Plan of Griffith' (1915)
- 5. 'The Town Plan of Leeton' (1915)
- 6. 'Arsenal Township' (1916)
- 7. 'Planning for Economy' (1917)
- 8. 'The Outdoor Arts in Australia' (1928)
- 9. 'Sydney Town Planning Scheme' (1931)
- 10. 'What of 'Town Planning'' (1935)
- Part III. Residential Communities:
- 1. 'Competitive Plan [for a Quarter-Section of Land in Chicago]' (1913)
- 2. 'Trier Center Neighborhood [and other domestic communities]' (1913)
- 3. 'Catholic College, University of Melbourne' (1915)
- 4. 'Architecture' (1915)
- 5. 'Picturesque Waterside Suburb – Scenic Charm of Castle Crag' (1922)
- 6. 'Nature and Ourselves' (1928)
- 7. Affidavit in Greater Sydney Development Association v. Rivett (1929)
- 8. 'Concrete at Castlecrag' (1930)
- 9. 'Toward Simpler Homes' (1931)
- 10. 'Occupational Conservation' (1935)
- Part IV. Designing the House:
- 1. 'A Solid Rock House' (1912)
- 2. 'A House in the Spirit of the Times' (1913)
- 3. 'The One-Roomed House' (1915)
- 4. 'The Problem of the Basic House' (1920)
- 5. 'Sunshine in the Home' (1922)
- 6. 'Standards for Furnishing' (1923)
- 7. 'The Natural House' (c. 1928)
- Part V. Building the House:
- 1. 'The Honest Use of Materials' (1915)
- 2. 'Knitlock Construction' (1922)
- 3. 'Segmental Architecture' (1927)
- 4. Two letters to Lillian Moore (1934)
- Part VI. Landscape Architecture:
- 1. 'The House an Element in a Garden Scheme' (1913)
- 2. 'Garden Roofs and Courts' (1921)
- 3. 'An Architectural Tree' and 'Avenue Trees' (1933)
- Part VII. Public Buildings:
- 1. Testimony on remodeling of the Sydney General Post Office (1921)
- 2. Testimony on the Australian War Memorial (1928)
- Part VIII. India:
- 1. Letter to Alice Henry (1935)
- 2. 'United Provinces of Agra & Oudh. All India Exposition. General Plan' (1936)
- 3. Seven Letters from India (1935-37)
- 4. 'Architecture in India' (1937)
- Part IX. Architecture and Politics:
- 1. 'A Plea for Liberty' (1920)
- 2. 'Status of Architecture' (1923)
- 3. 'Why Politics?' (1923)
- 4. 'The Menace of Governments' (1924)
- 5. 'Interest and Single Tax' (1934)
- Part X. The Future of Architecture:
- 1. 'Architecture in American Universities' (1913)
- 2. 'Melbourne 50 Years Hence' (1923)
- 3. 'Architecture in Another Fifty Years' (1927)
- 4. 'Building for the Future' (1928)
- 5. 'Decorative Terra Cotta Introduced to Sydney' (1930)
- 6. Contribution to 'Traditional v. Modern Contemporary Architecture' (1930)
- 7. 'The Economic Impasse. Ultimate Way Out. Architecture' (1932)
- 8. 'Modernism' (1934)
- Chronology of Griffin's writings.
