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Walter Burley Griffin Walter Burley Griffin was born in 1876 in Maywood, IL. He received his degree in architecture from the University of Illinois in 1899 and immediately went to work at Steinway Hall in Chicago where he met Frank Lloyd Wright. He soon became employed at Wright’s Oak Park studio and stayed there until 1905. It was in Wright’s studio that Griffin met Marion Mahoney and the two were married in 1911. That same year, Griffin returned to Steinway Hall and opened up his own practice, focusing primarily on residential buildings. In 1912, Griffin won a competition to design the new capital city of Canberra, Australia. He and Marion left in 1914 for Australia to oversee the design and construction of the capital city along with other commissions he had already received. Griffin and Mahoney remained in Australia for over 20 years practicing architecture before moving to India to design the University of Lucknow library building. It was in India that Griffin died of peritonitis developed from a ruptured gall bladder. There are no Walter Burley Griffin designed homes in Oak Park or River Forest. Most of his prairie school designs were built in Chicago. In Chicago’s Beverly neighborhood, for example, there is a street named after Griffin who designed many of those homes in that area in the early 1910’s. (right: Walter Burley and Marion MahonyGriffin)
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