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Robin Boyd, Roy Grounds and Harry Seidler have contributed significantly to modern Australian architecture by applying modernist-style principles to Australian homes. Another group of architects, such as Glenn Murcutt, Tina Engelen and Ian Moore, and Trop...
As elsewhere in Australia, European settlement disrupted Aboriginal patterns of land use and movement across the country, and many Aborigines died from European-brought diseases like influenza, smallpox and tuberculosis. The Griffins, Walter Burley and Ma...
Australian designers, by their very nature, look for simple and elegant solutions for challenges in often ordinary situations, balancing creativity with cost-effectiveness and innovative construction. Inspiration comes not only from historical and interna...
'An Ideal City? The 1912 Competition to Design Canberra' is an online exhibition about the competition to design the capital of Australia, the entrants, Walter Burley Griffin's winning design, and the changes that have been made to the plan as Canberra ha
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Find information on the National Capital Authority, a history of Canberra including Walter Burley Griffin's original plan. Also includes details on visiting the capital, present day attractions and future plans.
Search our collection > > WALTER BURLEY GRIFFIN, Melbourne Chairs from the Men's Fellowship Room, Uniting Church, Kew ...
Born: 24 November 1876 Maywood, Illinois, United States Died: 11 February 1937 Lucknow, India Suite of furniture from Newman College, University of Melbourne:......
irn=361979&search=furniture+design&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=377363&search=furniture+design&site_id=3 > 2008/118/1 Chair, 'Sunday' (Talon) prototype, plywood / plastic, designed by Bangdesign, Sydney, New South Wa...
irn=131437&search=nicol&site_id=3 93/171/1 Glove puppet, 'Bunyip Bluegum', from 'The Magic Pudding', papier mache/cotton, William Nicol, Melbourne, Australia, 1945 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=131437&search=nicol&site_id=3 htt...
irn=28692&search=middle+harbour&site_id=3 > 85/1284-2040 Glass negative, half plate, 'Middle Harbour', Kerry and Co., c. 1884-1917 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=28718&search=middle+harbour&site_id=3 > 85/1284-2064 Glass negativ...
irn=141454&search=past&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=122308&search=past&site_id=3 > 92/1685 Swimsuit, men's, 'March Past', nylon, Speedo, Australia, 1990 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=12230...
irn=166191&search=melbourne+capitol+theatre&site_id=3 98/99/9 Photographic print, colour, 'Walter Burley Griffin's Capitol Theatre, Melbourne', paper, photographed by Wolfgang Sievers, Melbourne, Australia, 1976 [reprint 1998] http://www.powerhousemuseum....
irn=166191&search=walter+burley+griffin+architecture&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=167893&search=walter+burley+griffin+architecture&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=167894&search=wal...
irn=103446&search=australian+architecture&site_id=3 90/209 Posters, (2) 'Australian Built, a Photographic Exhibition of Recent Australian Architecture', Spatchurst Design Associates, Sydney http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn...
irn=203909&search=drawers&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=8169&search=drawers&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=142638&search=drawers&site_id=3 http://www.powerh...
ABC Home | Radio | Television | News | Your Local ABC | More Subjects& | Shop Home | Past Programs | Have Your Say | Subscribe | About Us | Contact Us Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin: Photographed at Castlecrag, Sydney, in 1930. ...
ABC Home | Radio | Television | News | Your Local ABC | More Subjects& | Shop Home | Past Programs | Have Your Say | Subscribe | About Us | Contact Us Canberra: "Walter Burley Griffin's Plan of Canberra as Finally Revised and Accepted" (1913)...
irn=320073&search=portugal&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=381498&search=portugal&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=381499&search=portugal&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/coll...
irn=202961&search=Trail&site_id=3 > A9148-15 Genoese style bobbin lace border, [Italian], serpentine trail http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=202961&search=Trail&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=13...
irn=11068&search=bauhaus&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=319608&search=bauhaus&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=167934&search=bauhaus&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collecti...
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