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Modern Australian residential architecture - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

Canberra - Australia's Culture Portal

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 design - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

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An Ideal City (more info)

'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

Canberra - Australia's Capital National Capital Authority (more info)

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.

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No Fences, No Boundaries ,Äì Walter Burley Griffin, clip 1 (has teachers,Äô notes) - australian screen (website australianscreen )

Using voice-over, interviews, sketches and still shots of buildings, this clip gives a biographical overview of Griffin and describes the stylistic influences on his development as an architect. This clip shows photographs of Walter Burley Griffin, his ho...

96/366/1 Study table, [Japanese] oak, designed by Marion Mahony/Walter Burley Griffin, made by [James Moore], Melbourne, for Newman College, University of Melbourne, c 1917 - Powerhouse Museum Collection (website Powerhouse Museum )

Furniture > Desks>>+ A6380 Travelling desk: H = 17.5cm, L = 3...> + A9352 Desk and chair, Tasmanian myrtle, ... > + A9372 Office furniture, desk, pedestal, ... Designed by Marion Mahony and/or Walter Burley Griffin as part of a range of furniture for stud...

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 Collection (website Powerhouse Museum )

The Capitol Theatre was designed by the Griffins in 1921-24 as part of the Capitol House shop and office complex, 109 Collins Street, Melbourne. > > The maker of the light is unknown; the manufacturer may yet be revealed by examining the Capitol Theatre C...