Rosina Edmunds
Illustration — Rosina Edmunds in 1950 Rosina Mary Edmunds, also known as Rosette Edmunds (31 May 1900 – 23 April 1956), was an Australian architect, town planner and writer. Edmunds practiced in Sydney and Canberra, designing master plans and churches, and also published written works as a historian and government advocate.
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Rosina Edmunds
https: nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46455401 – The Australian Women's Weekly via National Library of Australia Trove · Public domain
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- 1900 · Strathfield.
- Died
- 1956 · Griffith.
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- Australia
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- architect · urban planner
- Education
- University of Sydney
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Illustration — Rosina Edmunds in 1950 Rosina Mary Edmunds, also known as Rosette Edmunds (31 May 1900 – 23 April 1956), was an Australian architect, town planner and writer. Edmunds practiced in Sydney and Canberra, designing master plans and churches, and also published written works as a historian and government advocate.
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Edmunds was born in Sydney and completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Sydney before graduating with an architecture degree in 1924, one of the university's first women to do so. From 1929 until 1941, Edmunds worked in the Sydney office of architecture firm Clement Gancey, which had also employed other notable women architects such as Heather Sutherland, and Winsome Hall Andrew. Edmunds contributed to major master plans for Sydney. In 1955 Edmunds began her term as President of the RAIA's Canberra Branch. She was the first woman told hold such a position in Australia.
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• Edmunds, R. M 1938, Architecture: An Introductory Survey, Dymocks, Sydney
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- 1.Services, Archives and Records Management. Faculty of Architecture Women Graduates. sydney.edu.au.
- 2.Heritage in Trust - The Journal of the National Trust in Australia (ACT). Autumn 2003.
- 3.Webber, Caroline. Edmunds, Rosina Mary (Rosette) (1900–1956). Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
- 4.'Interesting People' The Australian Women's Weekly. 11 March 1950.
- 5."Architecture: An Introductory Survey.". The Catholic Press. 2199. 3. 10 March 1938.
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