As I drive or ride over Commonwealth Avenue Bridge, I often think of Sir Robert Menzies—no, really. Menzies thought the Bridge was the ‘finest building in the National Capital’. Opened to traffic in November 1963 over the yet to be filled lake, the bridge was and is regarded as a lovely example of form and [...]
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The Canberra Chapter of the Walter Burley Griffin Society will host a lecture about Marion Mahony Griffin’s landscape art and architecture at the Shine Dome on Tuesday 25 October, 6pm. ‘The Silence of Mountains and the Music of the Sea’ will be presented by Christopher Vernon, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and [...]
The first exhibition devoted to Marion Mahony Griffin’s graphic work will be held at Northwestern University’s Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Evanston, Illinois, from 23 September to 4 December, 2005.
The first woman licensed to practice architecture in the United States, Mahony Griffin began her career in Frank Lloyd Wright’s studio, where she [...]
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