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Marion Mahony GriffinWW-1924-137865

1924·Ink on paper·73.8 × 54.5 cm (29 1/16 × 21 7/16 in.)

<p>Though she is most known for her Prairie School designs, Marion Mahony Griffin devoted herself to writing and progressive causes in the late 1930s and ’40s. Working with American pacifist and feminist Lola Maverick Lloyd, Mahony Griffin planned a large, unrealized retreat center for the peace organization World Fellowship of Faiths. Intended to celebrate the power of individuals to pursue peace after the trauma of the war, Griffin’s geometric design blends a colony of cottages and recreational facilities into the topography of the landscape.</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1924
Medium: Ink on paper
Dimensions: 73.8 × 54.5 cm (29 1/16 × 21 7/16 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Marion Mahony Griffin

Artist

Marion Mahony Griffin

Photography

Marion Mahony Griffin was an American architect and architectural delineator who pioneered the integration of landscape design with residential planning in early twentieth-century practice. Working alongside her husband Walter Burley Griffin, she developed a distinctive approach to organic architecture that emphasized the relationship between building and site through careful topographical study and hand-rendered presentation drawings. Her watercolor renderings and landscape plans for the Griffins' projects, including their design for Canberra, Australia, established a visual language that prioritized spatial continuity and ecological sensitivity.

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