Recovering Walter Burley Griffin's final American city plan

Christopher Vernon

Planning Perspectives, 2015, vol. 30, issue 4, 625-637

Abstract: In 1912, Walter Burley Griffin famously won the international design competition for Australia's national capital, later named Canberra. In 1914, Walter - along with his wife and professional partner Marion Mahony Griffin - moved from their native Chicago to Australia to orchestrate Canberra's realization. On a return visit to the USA in 1925, Walter was commissioned to lay out an extension to the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge. Until now, this project was only known from a singular, passing mention of it in a period newspaper article. This report reconstructs the writer's convoluted effort - spanning more than a decade - to confirm Walter Burley Griffin's authorship of this enigmatic project and to locate the plan itself. In parallel, it recovers, partly based upon evidence-derived suppositions, the circumstances surrounding what proved to be Griffin's final American commission.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/02665433.2015.1047894

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