World Fellowship Center. Conway, New Hampshire
1942 · Black and red ink on linen
90.7 × 87.2 cm (35 3/4 × 34 3/8 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Marion Mahony Griffin
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Marion Mahony Griffin was an American architect and architectural delineator whose hand-rendered watercolor presentations established a visual language for organic architecture in the early twentieth century. Working with her husband Walter Burley Griffin, she integrated landscape design with residential planning through topographical study and spatial continuity. Her drawings for projects including the master plan for Canberra, Australia, demonstrated an ecological sensitivity to site that influenced the relationship between building and land. Griffin's delineation techniques became foundational to modern architectural visualization.
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