Mary Turner Shaw
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Mary Turner Shaw was an Australian architect. She was born in Caulfield, Melbourne, Australia and is one of the first women to be employed as an architect in the early 1930s in Australia and thus pion
Mary Turner (Mollie) Shaw
Glenunga Flats' Front View
Newburn Flats on 30 Queens Road View
Yarrabee Flats's front view
Frederick Romberg
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Frederick Romberg was a Swiss-trained architect who migrated to Australia in 1938, and became a leading figure in the development of Modernism in his adopted city.
Mary Turner Shaw
…and visited works of modernist architecture, Alvar Aalto and Willem Marinus Dudok. Upon returning to Melbourne in 1939, she formed a partnership with Frederick Romberg, Romberg & Shaw, administering and site supervision for Newburn Flats and Yarrabee Flats, which were early examples of functionalist architecture in…
Frederick Romberg in 1937
Stanhill Flats, view from Queens Road.
Newburn. Frederick Romberg's office was located for a time in the penthouse
Picken Court, Ormond College, University of Melbourne