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Images- Northern Suburbs Fishwick House |
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architect |
Walter
Burley Griffin |
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location |
The Citadel, Castlecrag. Walter Burley Griffin |
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date |
1929 |
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style |
Inter-War Art Deco |
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construction |
stone cladding, render |
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type |
House |
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The Fyshwick House was occupied by Nisson Leonard Kanevsky, who
commissioned Griffin to design the incinerators, between 1931 and 1940.
Much of the stone used in the house came from the site. It reflects
Griffin’s conception of houses, as the houses at Castlecrag, being
subordinate to the landscape, indeed becoming part of the landscape.
This was achieved by the use of stone and flat roofs, the relationship
of the outdoors and indoors, and exploitation of views across the
landscape. Griffin and his wife Marion Mahoney both worked in the office of Frank Lloyd Wright. Griffin's work is a striking example of the way that aspects of an important modern architectural philosophy and its aesthetics - that of Chicago's "Prairie School" - came to Australia. |
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links |
http://www.teachingheritage.nsw.edu.au/b_expressing/wwalterburley.html |