Walter Burley Griffin made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Walter Burley Griffin as American architect and landscape architect (1876-1937).
Walter Burley Griffin was born at Maywood in 1876. His recorded nationality is the United States. He was educated at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Oak Park and River Forest High School.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
The record gives his occupations as architect, landscape architect and urban planner.
His principal work is Paris Theatre. Technical work compounds - each layer makes the next one cheaper to attempt.
Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Walter Burley Griffin died in 1937 at the age of 61. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Paris Theatre
- Educated at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Oak Park and River Forest High School
- Worked as architect, landscape architect and urban planner
