Mary Turner Shaw, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian architect
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Place of Birth: Caulfield, Victoria, Australia
About Mary Turner Shaw
- Mary Turner ("Mollie") Shaw (1906–1990) was born in Caulfield, Melbourne, Australia.
- She is one of the first women to be employed as an architect in the early 1930s in Australia and thus pioneered new pathways for female architects.
- Her career is widely known for her working qualities that made her oversee many projects across Australia.
- She also became a distinct figure as an architectural historian, when she started publishing books and written articles.
- Her skills were diverse as she worked as a fashion designer, interior designer, project manager, public works architect and pioneer architectural librarian.
- As historian Geoffrey Serle described her, she was "a born writer and research historian with imagination, the ability to tell a story and define and ask fundamental questions".
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