Designer of Canberra : a biography of Walter Burley Griffin. [1964?]

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Designer of Canberra : a biography of Walter Burley Griffin. [1964?]

Printer's typescript, galley proofs, and page proofs of James Birrell's biography of Walter Burley Griffin, published in 1964 by the University of Queensland Press.

3 folders.

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Griffin, Walter Burley, 1876-1937

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Walter Burley Griffin was an architect and landscape architect. Marion Mahony Griffin (1871-1962) was an architect who worked mainly as an architectural renderer. She was the first women to graduate, in 1894, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in architecture. Both had previously worked for Frank Lloyd Wright at his studio in Oak Park, Illinois. From the description of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin architectural drawings, circa 1909-1937. (...

Birrell, James, 1928-....

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James Birrell was educated at the Melbourne Technical College (1945-1949) while working for the Victorian State Works Department (1947), for R.G. Warren (1948) and the Commonwealth Works Department (1949-1950). He transferred into a fourth year course in the School of Architecture at the University of Melbourne. Following his graduation in 1950, he returned to the Commonwealth Works Department and worked for them in Melbourne, Canberra and Darwin. He was appointed Architect in charge of the Arch...