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- BUILDING
FOR THE FUTURE
- Australia's
pioneering women architects
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- Florence
Taylor (née Parsons), the first woman in
Australia to pursue a professional career in
architecture began nightclasses in 1899 at
Sydney Technical College, the only woman amongst
200 men. At the same time she served her
apprenticeship and was later employed as "Chief
Draughtsman" in a prestigious Sydney
architectural office before qualifying in 1907.
With her husband George, she ran the successful
Building Publishing Company producing trade
journals on the built environment for 33
years.
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- Florence
was not admitted to the NSW Institute of
Architects because she was a woman until a
policy change 13 years after she first
qualified. Queensland Institute of Architects
was the first in Australia to admit a woman -
Beatrice May Hutton - in 1916 while Eileen Good,
first woman to gain the University of
Melbourne's Diploma of Architecture in 1921 was
to become the following year, the first female
member of the Royal Victorian Institute of
Architects.
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- By
the First World War, NSW, Victoria and
Queensland had produced Australia's first female
architects but by the 1920s other states
followed suit. Esther Legay, possibly South
Australia's first woman architect was in
practice at this time. Margaret Pitt Morison,
Western Australia's first woman architect,
qualified in 1924 after 4 years articles with a
Perth architect. During the 1940s, Tasmania's
first known student of architecture, Margaret
Keitha Findlay began training while Heather
Moir, probably ACT's first female architect was
in practice.
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- In
1983, Eve Laron founded Constructive Women Inc,
the association of women architects, landscape
architects, planners and women of the building
industry. In 1995 the Constructive Women
Architecture and Design Archive was founded at
Stanton, North Sydney Municipal Library to start
documenting the contributions of women to
Australia's built environment.
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- Some
first women in Australia's architectural
world...
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 - By
permission of the National Library of
Australia
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- FLORENCE
TAYLOR (1879-1969)
- Australia's
first woman architect and engineer qualified in
building construction, architecture and quantity
surveying in 1907. Thirteen years later she was
the first woman to gain membership of the NSW
Institute of Architects.
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 - Courtesy
of Ms Rosalind
Smallwood
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- RUTH
ALSOP (1879-1976)
- Victoria's
first female qualified architect completed her
articles at her brother's firm Klingender &
Aslop in 1912, remaining a registered architect
until 1927.
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 - Charles
Bush
- Eileen
Mary Good (c1957)
- oil
on composition board
- Commission
with funds raised by appeal to graduates
c1957
- University
of Melbourne Art
Collection
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- EILEEN
GOOD (1893-1986)
- The
first woman to graduate from the University of
Melbourne's new Diploma of Architecture course
in 1921, she became the first female member of
the Royal Victorian Institute of
Architects.
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 - By
kind permission of the Board of Architects,
Queensland
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- ELINA
MOTTRAM (b1903)
- Queensland's
longest practicing female architect was also
this State's first establishing her own business
in Brisbane in 1924.
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 - University
of Melbourne Archives
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- ELLISON
HARVIE (1902-1984)
- Seen
here at the rear drawing board, she was the
first woman to graduate from the University of
Melbourne's Architectural Atelier after
completing the course in 1928. The degrees were
first bestowed the following year although she
did not apply for hers until 1939.
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 - La
Trobe Collection, State Library of
Victoria
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- MARY
TURNER SHAW (1906-1990)
- A
graduate of the University of Melbourne's
Architectural Atelier, she was the first female
architect employed by the Public Works
Department of the Allied Services in
1941.
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 - Courtesy
of Louise Cox/Photo by Kate
Gollings
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- LOUISE
COX (b1939)
- Appointed
in 1994, she was the first female President of the Royal Australian
Institute of Architects based in Canberra, after an unbroken run
of 55 male Presidents since its foundation in 1929.
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