Canberra – Australia's capital city. Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory, is Australia's capital city.
After Federation in 1901, a site for the capital was sought, and Canberra was selected. The Australian Capital Territory was declared on 1 January 1911 and an international competition was held to design the new capital city of Australia. Canberra - the Griffin vision in the 21st century. ABC. Canberra prepares to celebrate its centenary Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast: 31/12/2012 Reporter: Chris Uhlmann.
Mahony Griffin, Marion Lucy - Woman - The Australian Women's Register. Born Marion Lucy Mahony in Chicago, Illinois in 1871, Marion Mahony was the second woman ever to graduate from the architectural program at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 1898 Marion Mahony became the first woman in Illinois to be licensed to practice as an architect, pioneering women's participation in architecture in the US. After beginning her career working with her cousin, architect Dwight Perkins in Chicago, she went on to spend fourteen years with Frank Lloyd Wright, becoming his chief draftsman and architectural renderer. Nocookies. You have cookies turned off To use this website, cookies must be enabled in your browser.
To enable cookies, follow the instructions for your browser below. Facebook App: Open links in External Browser There is a specific issue with the Facebook in-app browser intermittently making requests to websites without cookies that had previously been set. Treasure Trove: Marion Mahony Griffin drawing - ABC Canberra - Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Marion Mahony Griffin's beautiful drawings helped her husband and fellow architect, Walter Burley Griffin, win the international competition to design a national capital for Australia.
Marion also used her significant artistic talent to advertise the designs they created together. One such design was displayed in the front window of the Griffins' office in Bligh Street in Sydney. It's about to go on show again in an exhibition at the National Library of Australia. The Griffins had arrived in Australia from Chicago full of hope for the realisation of their vision for Canberra but they were thwarted by controversy and argument over how their plans should be implemented. In 1919 the couple quit the young capital and set their sights on Sydney. Walter Burley Griffin Society - Marion Mahony Griffin. Griffin resigned as Federal Capital Director of Design and Construction in 1920 and in 1921 they secured an option on 650 acres (263 hectares) in Castlecrag, Sydney.
Griffin formed the Greater Sydney Development Association (GSDA) to purchase and develop the site as a model community. In 1935, through theosophical connections, Griffin was invited to India to design a library for Lucknow University.