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The Architecture of Walter Burley Griffin: archetypal patterns
La comunidad residencial de Castlecrag, construida a las afueras de Sydney por Marion Mahony Griffin y Walter Burley Griffin, supone una reivindicación del papel central del ser humano en la arquitectura por encima de cuestiones meramente funcionalistas. El uso de la técnica y la razón durante los primeros años del siglo xx, supuso un alejamiento del mundo experiencial, propio del hombre en su desarrollo como individuo que forma parte de un todo común como es la naturaleza. Su concepción holística del proyecto, implica una relación directa entre las vivencias de sus usuarios y el entorno en el que se materializan. Cercanos al pensamiento antroposófico de Rudolf Steiner, el desarrollo de su obra en Sydney supone una aplicación de algunos de los principios enunciados por éste en su colonia en Dornach. Así, los materiales, las texturas y los colores utilizados en los acabados de la casa Fishwick y la casa Duncan, tratan de establecer unas relaciones entre sus usuarios y la naturaleza que los rodea, de forma que la intuición unida a la razón, produzcan una arquitectura que permita el crecimiento personal del ser humano.
Published in the final months of 1891, Architecture, Mysticism and Myth was the first architectural treatise written by the late nineteenth-century English architect and theorist William Richard Lethaby (1857-1931).' Documenting the characteristic attributes of the architectural myth of the "temple idea", and its presence amongst architectures of multiple ancient cultures, the text was endowed with a distinctly historical tone. In examining the motives behind myth, which Lethaby defined as the interaction and reaction between the natural universe and the built environment, Lethaby also injected a series of theoretical considerations into the text. It is clear that Lethaby's interest in the temple idea was not limited to its curious, prolific presence in past architectures, hut also embraced a consideration of what lessons the temple idea may contribute to the struggle of the late nineteenth-century English architect to define an "art of the future".
The Architecture of Newman College
- Jeffrey John Turnbull
‘Architecture in American Universities
- Griffin
Architecture in American Universities): 173. The same text was published earlier as ‘Architecture and Democracy
- Griffin Walter Burley
‘The Architecture of Newman CollegeA reading of the Griffins’ early Australian work
- Turnbull
‘Spirituality and Symbolism in the Work of the Griffins
- Weirick
courtesy of the Eric Nicholls Collection, kindly showed office folders of images from photographs, postcards and magazine articles that were filed under subject headings in the Griffins' Sydney office
- Marie Nicholls
- Sturgis Russell
Van der Plaat has brilliantly analysed all aspects of theory in Lethaby's book, whereas this article compares the form of only three of Lethaby's archetypes in relation to a relevant few
- Deborah Van Der Plaat
The same text was published earlier as ‘Architecture and Democracy
- Walter Burley
Architectural Composition at the Ecole’, suggests that was eclipsed at the Ecole by the more popular mode of by the end of the nineteenth century
- David Van Zanten