Chicago-born architect Marion Mahony Griffin (1871-1961) is known primarily for a magnificent drafting style that incorporated architectural plans into dramatic and stylized landscapes. Yet standard histories of early twentieth-century architecture have not fully recognized her pioneering work, which went far beyond her early contributions to the Prairie School. Marion Mahony Griffin: Drawing the Form of Nature is the first book devoted to Mahony Griffin's graphic work and presents a new critical interpretation of her art ...
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Chicago-born architect Marion Mahony Griffin (1871-1961) is known primarily for a magnificent drafting style that incorporated architectural plans into dramatic and stylized landscapes. Yet standard histories of early twentieth-century architecture have not fully recognized her pioneering work, which went far beyond her early contributions to the Prairie School. Marion Mahony Griffin: Drawing the Form of Nature is the first book devoted to Mahony Griffin's graphic work and presents a new critical interpretation of her art.
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I'm a bit predudiced here as I am always on the lookout for ways to depict the Australian lanscape which in not English, European or American all of which are generally much softer while Australian bush has a harsher, hard edged feel. Mahony's drawings shown in this book do that, in my opinion. Loved the feeling she achieved with the angophora's as I grew up and live in the parts of Sydney where they grow and she depicts the architecture as it still is to an extent today (progress!) . It also particularly helps to correct the unheralded contribution of women to architecture and generally shows that architecture is produced by a team not just a celebrity architect(Walter Burley Griffen).
