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TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING
SATURDAY OCTOBER 3 &
SUNDAY OCTOBER 4, 2026
HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS

We are pleased to announce that the 25th Annual Meeting of the Walter Burley Griffin Society of America will be held in the North Shore community of Highland Park, Illinois, on the weekend of 3-4 October 2026 (Saturday to Sunday). The Saturday morning lectures and luncheon will be held at Trinity Episcopal Church, 425 Laurel Ave, Highland Park. A full itinerary and registration form will be available in the spring newsletter. Proposed buildings and landscape sites will include work by John Van Bergen, Frank Lloyd Wright, Lawrence Buck, and Jens Jensen, among others.

And, of course, you must be a member of the Griffin Society to register for the conference. If you have not renewed your membership, please fill out the form below.

MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS

Once again, please renew your Griffin Society membership for 2026. We have just raised our basic dues of $35 ($30 for seniors and students). We do need our members to renew their membership so we can continue organizing our annual meetings and publishing newsletters as well as sponsor publications and preservation project things possible. Thanks so very much. The membership renewal form can be found here (Membership Form). Please return the form with your payment to the Society.

The Walter Burley Griffin Society of America
is proud to announce...

GRIFFIN SOCIETY POSTERS

The Griffin Society is pleased to make its set of conference posters available for purchase. For the past six years the Society has commissioned commemorative posters for its annual meetings from the Brooklyn Studio of Peter Kruty and Sayre Gaydos. Hand printed with fine inks on handmade papers in limited editions, they are artworks in themselves and make excellent additions to the collections of architecture aficionados, Griffin followers, or anyone looking for an affordable and unique gift. The Society is offering these elegant prints for the modest price of $35 apiece including postage and handling (within the United States).

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Peter Kruty is a master printer and, together with his partner Sayre Gaydos, is the proprietor of Peter Kruty Editions, a fine art and commercial letterpress studio located in a charming two-story former horse stable in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Peter trained under Richard-Gabriel Rummonds at The University of Alabama and has graduate degrees in both letterpress and printmaking. The studio, now in its twenty-fourth year, collaborates with numerous contemporary artists and designers, including Lesley Dill, Louise Lawler, Eliza Kentridge, and Walton Ford. Its productions are widely collected both privately and by museums and libraries. Peter has taught book arts extensively in the United States and currently instructs letterpress at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. Peter and Sayre also teach a letterpress workshop at the renowned Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione in Cornuda, Italy.

As an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, Peter studied architectural history under Paul Sprague, developing an early interest in the Prairie School and Walter Burley Griffin. He attends the meetings of the Griffin Society as his schedule permits and has been pleased to offer his services in producing the conference posters for the last six meetings. Peter and Sayre have created the posters at little more than cost and have donated all proceeds to the Griffin Society.

Peter Kruty
365 40th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11232
peterkrutyeditions@peterkrutyeditions.com

See the Publications page for pricing and ordering information.

 
 
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