Marion Griffin b. 14 February 1871

Also known as Marion Lucy Mahony, Marion Mahony Griffin
  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
Working in the same league as Frank Lloyd Wright and Hermann von Holst, Marion eventually married and worked with Walter Burley Griffin on public and private architecture in Sydney and Melbourne.

Citations

  • Berkon, Susan F. (1977), 'Marion Mahony Griffin’, Women in American Architecture Torre, Susana (ed.), New York.

  • Hamann, Conrad; & Rubbo, Anna (1988), 'Walter Burley Griffin: A Review’, Monash University, Clayton, Vic.

  • Hanna, Bronwyn (2000), 'Absence and Presence: A historiography of early women architects in New South Wales’, PhD thesis, Architecture UNSW.

  • Harrison, Peter, 'Walter Burley Griffin’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol.9, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Roe, Jill (1995), 'The magical world of Marion Mahony Griffin’, in Minorities, Fitzgerald, S. and Wotherspoon, G. (ed) Sydney, NSW.

  • Walker, Henrietta C. (1916), 'Woman the Architect’, Lone Hand, December, 1.

  • Walker, Meredith; & Kabos, Adrienne; & Weirick, James (1994), 'Building for Nature: Walter Burley Griffin and Castlecrag’, Castlecrag, NSW.

  • Information sourced from Weirick, James.

  • Terence Lane. One Hundred Modern Chairs. Natl Gallery of Victoria, 1974

See also

  • 'Heritage biography, ADD section 9, plate 376'.
  • Powerhouse Museum, '97/308/1 Light fitting and storage box, from the Capitol Theatre in Melbourne, wood / plaster / glass / metal, designed by Marion Mahony Griffin and Walter Burley Griffin, manufacturer unknown, Australia, 1921-24', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW. http://from.ph/158184

Initial data sources

  • Heritage with additions