@article {Freestone79, author = {Robert Freestone}, title = {Early Historic Preservation in Australia: The Walter Burley Griffin Connection}, volume = {18}, number = {1}, pages = {79--87}, year = {1999}, doi = {10.3368/lj.18.1.79}, publisher = {University of Wisconsin Press}, abstract = {Walter Burley Griffin is not remembered as a historic preservationist, but his involvement in a campaign to save a convict-built building in Sydney, Australia, in the 1930s reveals a deep respect for the inherited built landscape. Griffin{\textquoteright}s contribution, while modest, is important because it illustrates an important juncture in the evolution of the historic preservation movement in Australia. These effrts can be situated within his broader socio-architectural philosophy, and represent a neglected dimension in the career of one of the major figures af twentieth-century architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning. Buildings are the most subtle, accurate and enduring records of life-hence their problems are the problems of life and not problems of form; but through the forms and material of buildings we can gain an insight into the life of the past.}, issn = {0277-2426}, URL = {https://lj.uwpress.org/content/18/1/79}, eprint = {https://lj.uwpress.org/content/18/1/79.full.pdf}, journal = {Landscape Journal} }