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> Walter Burley Griffin was born in 1876 in Maywood, Illinois. He received his
> degree in architecture from the University of Illinois in 1899 and then
> returned to Chicago, joining the group of architects already assembled at the
> Steinway Piano Company building, which was referred to as Steinway Hall. In
> 1901 he was employed by Frank Lloyd Wright at his Oak Park studio, staying
> there until 1905 when he left over a dispute about being paid with Japanese
> prints instead of money for his work just after Wright had returned from
> Japan. While working with Wright he met Marion Lucy Mahony, the person
> responsible for many of the perspective building renderings that showcased
> Wright’s prairie works, and later married her in 1911.
> 
> He then returned to Steinway Hall to open up his own practice, focusing
> primarily on residential commissions. He eventually hired former Wright
> employees and colleagues, Francis Barry Byrne and Harry Robinson. In 1912
> Griffin won a competition to design the new capital city of Canberra,
> Australia. He and Marion left for Australia in 1914 to oversee the design and
> construction of the capital city along with other commissions that Walter had
> also received. This left Francis Barry Byrne to manage the Chicago office
> while Marion managed an office in Sydney and Walter ran the Melbourne office.
> 
> Walter practiced architecture for 21 years in Australia before leaving for
> Lucknow, India to design the University of Lucknow library building. While in
> India Walter died in 1937 from peritonitis developed from a ruptured gall
> bladder that occurred while he was in Australia.