Walter Burley Griffin (1876-1937) was an American architect and urban planner who was born in Maywood, Illinois. He is best known for his work as a pioneer of the Prairie School of architecture and as the designer of Canberra, the capital city of Australia.
Griffin studied architecture at the University of Illinois and later at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He worked for several architects in the United States and Europe before establishing his own practice in Chicago in 1906. In 1912, Griffin won a competition to design the new capital city of Australia, and he and his wife, Marion Mahony Griffin, relocated to Australia to oversee the project.
In Canberra, Griffin developed a unique urban plan that incorporated a series of concentric circles and radiating boulevards, with the government district at the centre. The plan was designed to balance the city's natural and man-made more...
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