Marion Mahony Griffin Essays

  • Australian Architecture Analysis

    1420 Words  | 3 Pages

    Revolutionary Generation Architecture traces the changes in history through various traditions, nations, regions, overarching stylistic trends, dates and so on. Many factors have their own ability to change the scheme or style of architecture, and these factors also have particularly relationship to each other. When it comes to a country, nationalism or regionalism is a good start to analysis a county’s architecture theory. The definition of nationalism can be simply described as a devotion to one’s

  • Australian Architecture Analysis

    1687 Words  | 4 Pages

    The Griffins, Kevin Borland and Edmond and Corrigan expressionist tendencies rebelled against the mainstream and were a catalyst to pluralism within Melbourne Architecture. Expressionism was formed in Europe in the 20th century during the inter-war period. Expressionist architecture emphasized form and abstraction which was centered around themes of natural phenomena such as caves, crystals, rocks ,organic forms and democratic ideals. It uses the form of the building as a means to symbolize, or