Find out what made Marion’s hair stand on end at the Marion Mahoney Griffin Lecture 2021. Image: Supplied.
‘What made Marion’s Hair Stand on End?’ An exploration of Marion Mahony Griffin’s pioneering role as an environmentalist and urban planning.
Dr Anne Watson has had a long association with the Griffins including as curator/editor of the 1998 Powerhouse Museum exhibition/catalogue Beyond Architecture: Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin in America, Australia and India, editor of Visionaries in Suburbia: Griffin Houses in the Sydney Landscape (2015) and curator of Paradise on Earth (Museum of Sydney, November 2020-April 2021) celebrating the sesquicentenary of Marion’s birth.
She has also written and lectured extensively on the history of the Sydney Opera House including as author of ‘The Poisoned Chalice: Peter Hall and the Sydney Opera House‘ (2017) based on her 2014 PhD thesis.
The Details:
What: The Marion Mahoney Griffin Lecture
When: Saturday 13 March, 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Where: National Museum of Australia, Lawson Crescent, Acton
Cost: $15 per person, tickets available through Eventbrite.
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