Castlecrag, Australia, Australia
Year 1925 latitude: -33° 48' longitude: 151° 13' Period Initiator(s) Planning organization Nationality initiator(s) Designer(s) / Architect(s) Walter Burley Griffin Marion Mahony Griffin Design organization Inhabitants 2,805 (2006) Target population Town website Town related links http://www.teachingheritage.nsw.edu.au/b_expressing/wb1_wbglegacy.html http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LA20050622 033 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/previous/griffin.asp Literature - M. Kabos Walker; J. A. Weireck, 'Building for Nature: Walter Burley Griffin and Castlecrag' 1994, Walter Griffin Society, Sydney 1994 type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
Castle Crag in Sydney is a suburb designed to embody theosophist principles. It is an experiment in communal and community planning and living and a rare example of idealism in action in Australia. The aim was to create a residential area in harmony with nature. A network of linking walkways, roads that followed the contours of nature, sandstone and knitlock houses, Australian plants and an amphitheatre - thought as an integration of architecture and landscape - was part of the Griffin's concept. source:
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