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Walter Burley Griffin in America provides a detailed look at the work of one of the most original architects the United States has produced. This beautiful volume features nearly 200 photographs of Walter Burley Griffin's structures and landscapes, as well as a chronological catalog of standing buildings, a list of demolished works, a location guide, and a selected bibliography. The book is further enhanced by Mati Maldre's discussion of his techniques and objectives in photographing Griffin's work and Paul Kruty's essay putting Griffin forward as the third great member, after Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, of the Prairie School of architecture.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #965386 in Books
• Published on: 2000-11-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Midwest Book Review
One of the most original architects America has produced, Walter Burley Griffin worked in the shadow of his early colleague and employer, Frank Lloyd Wright. This has obscured Griffin's contributing role in Wright's architecture as well as the superb accomplishments of his own work as architect, landscape architect, and town planner. Walter Burley Griffin In America combines the richly detailed photographs of Mati Maldre and extensive research of Paul Kruty to provide the first complete visual record ever published of Griffin's surviving American work. The volume is accessible to the general reader, and indispensable to historians and students of architecture. Included are nearly 200 photographs of structures and landscapes designed by Griffin. Walter Burley Griffin In America also features a chronological catalog of standing buildings, a list of demolished works, a location guide, and a selected bibliography. Walter Burley Griffin In America is a splendid work of scholarship and a highly recommended addition to all architectural studies collections.

Chicago Sun-Times
Compelling display. . . . Through Maldre's arresting . . . photography, we see an amazing series of houses and buildings that proclaim Griffin's overlooked genius.

Customer Reviews

A Beautiful Raisonne
This is a beautiful catalog of the work of a unique American architect. (I'm not an unbiased reviewer -- I live in a Walter Burley Griffin home.) Mati's photographs are beautiful, and he is to be congratulated on his perserverance in completing this photographic record when he did. Some of the houses are disappearing due to developer fever -- it's truly a shame that Americans lust after oversized cookie cutter McMansions, and don't recognize the heritage that is being discarded. Viva Preservation!

classic prairie school reading
This book is well researched, well designed and well executed. The photographs are entirely in B&W and are beautifully reproduced here. Walter Burley Griffin and his most talented wife Marion Mahony are still fighting their way out of the shadows of Frank Lloyd's Wright's "presence"..however this book greatly enhances our knowledge of the legacy the Griffin's built here. Bottom line, Walter and Marion were a powerful architectural team and Illinois/Iowa both house an unbelievable collection of their prairie school gems. I would highly reccommend this book as a starting point for anyone interested in exposing themselves to the Griffins are their influence on Frank Lloyd Wright and the prairie school. FYI the first 1/3 of the book is text and the rest photographs.....I just wish the book was bigger and longer.