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Walter Burley Griffin

1876 - 1937

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Walter Burley Griffin (November 24, 1876 – February 11, 1937) was an American architect and landscape architect. He designed Canberra, Australia's capital city, the New South Wales towns of Griffith and Leeton, and (with his wife) the Sydney suburb of Castlecrag. Influenced by the Chicago-based Prairie School, Griffin developed a unique modern style in partnership with his wife Marion Mahony Griffin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Burley Griffin has received more than 374,527 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Walter Burley Griffin is the 393rd most popular architect (up from 394th in 2019), the 6,035th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,504th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Walter Burley Griffin ranks 393 out of 518. Before him are Massimiliano Fuksas, Daniel Burnham, Aurelio Galfetti, Max Berg, Vasily Stasov, and Kunio Maekawa. After him are Giuseppe Piermarini, Hermann Bollé, Juan Gómez de Mora, John Hejduk, Michel de Klerk, and Andrey Voronikhin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Walter Burley Griffin ranks 145. Before him are Olav Duun, Stylianos Gonatas, Hippolyte Aucouturier, Sotirios Versis, Max O. Lorenz, and Felix Jacoby. After him are John Marshall, Flora Sandes, Alfred Stock, Marvin Hart, Nikolay Burdenko, and Gwen John. Among people deceased in 1937, Walter Burley Griffin ranks 132. Before him are Silvestras Žukauskas, Paul Bekker, Mykola Kulish, Yan Gamarnik, Felix Graf von Bothmer, and George Albert Boulenger. After him are Prosper Poullet, Mykhaylo Semenko, Bolesław Leśmian, Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, Alexander Chervyakov, and Sigizmund Levanevsky.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walter Burley Griffin ranks 6,035 out of 20,380. Before him are Ken Olsen (1926), Michael Cudlitz (1964), Jeffrey Ullman (1942), Jerry Lucas (1940), Owen Garriott (1930), and William Bonin (1947). After him are John William Casilear (1811), Geraldine Ferraro (1935), Kim Dickens (1965), Stan Hansen (1949), Lupe Ontiveros (1942), and Ben Sharpsteen (1895).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Walter Burley Griffin ranks 23. Before him are Thom Mayne (1944), Steven Holl (1947), Michael Graves (1934), Gordon Bunshaft (1909), Frederick Law Olmsted (1822), and Daniel Burnham (1846). After him are John Hejduk (1929), Robert Moses (1888), Julia Morgan (1872), Cass Gilbert (1859), Henry Hobson Richardson (1838), and Robert A. M. Stern (1939).

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