 By 1914 Griffin and his architect wife Marion Mahony had moved to Australia after winning the 1912 international design competition for the Federal Capital, Canberra with a scheme based on its topography, a distinctly non-prairie valley landscape of undulating hills.This was a project they had worked on together.By 1919, there were problems with the Canberra project and Griffin resigned his position as Federal Capital Director of Design and Construction.