Marion Mahony Griffin

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Marion Mahony Griffin was a pioneering American architect and one of the first licensed female architects in the world, renowned for her influential work alongside Walter Burley Griffin and Frank Lloyd Wright.

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instanceOf American architect
architect
pioneer of women in architecture
woman
artisticStyle highly detailed ink and watercolor renderings
birthDate 1871-02-14
birthPlace Chicago, Illinois, United States
burialPlace Chicago, Illinois, United States
citizenship United States of America
deathDate 1961-08-10
deathPlace Chicago, Illinois, United States
degree Bachelor of Architecture
educatedAt Massachusetts Institute of Technology
employedBy Frank Lloyd Wright
Walter Burley Griffin
familyName Mahony
fieldOfWork architectural illustration
architecture
fullName Marion Lucy Mahony Griffin
gender female
genre architectural memoir
givenName Marion
graduationYear 1894
heritage Irish-American
influenced representation of Prairie School architecture
influencedBy Frank Lloyd Wright
knownFor Prairie School architectural style
architectural drawings and renderings
being one of the first licensed female architects in the world
collaboration with Frank Lloyd Wright
collaboration with Walter Burley Griffin
marriageStart 1911
movement Prairie School
nationality American
notableAchievement among the first licensed female architects in the United States
second woman to graduate from MIT with an architecture degree
notableWork design work for Canberra competition with Walter Burley Griffin
drawings for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wasmuth Portfolio
parent Clara Hamilton Mahony
Jeremiah Mahony
role chief draftsperson in Frank Lloyd Wright’s studio
spouse Walter Burley Griffin
workedIn Australia
India
United States
wrote The Magic of America

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