Tag Archives: Western Australia

Jean Verschuer 1925-

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Entrance to a stone building with trees in the foreground.Jean Verschuer, Lady Brodie-Hall is a prominent and respected West Australian landscape architect.

During the 1960s Jean Verschuer worked with the architectural firms of Forbes and Fitzhardinge and Summerhayes and Associates and was consultant to large public companies, private firms, government agencies and local councils on a range of projects. These included standard-gauge railway stations, the Salvation Army village in Hollywood Western Australia, and the design of major mining towns and their surrounds.

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Margaret Feilman 1921-

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Margaret FeilmanMargaret Feilman OBE was Perth’s first female town planner. She also had a successful career as an architect and landscape designer and was an early advocate for identifying and protecting  built heritage.

A founding member of the Western Australian Town Planning Institute in 1950, she was also – in 1959 – a founding member of the Western Australian branch of the National Trust of Australia.

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Cynthea Teague 1907-2007

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Architectural drawing of a tall modern building.Architect Cynthea Mary Teague became the first woman in the executive level of the Commonwealth Public Service in 1964.

During her long public service career she was involved in many projects around Australia, including armament factories, schools and housing in Darwin, the Springvale Hostel in Melbourne,  overseas diplomatic accommodation, and Commonwealth office buildings in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Darwin.

In 1971 Cynthea Teague was awarded an MBE for her services to the Commonwealth.

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Margaret Morison 1900-1985

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Western Australia’s first woman architect,  Margaret Pitt Morison’s career spanned more than 64 years as practitioner, educator and historian.  She registered as an architect in October 1924 and worked and stiudied in Melbourne for the next four years.

In the 1930s she worked on the Perth buildings the Myola Club in Claremont, the Adelphi Hotel, the Karrakatta Club and the Emu Brewery; in the early 1940s in partnership with Heinz Jacobsohn she designed Perth residences including the Marginata Flats and a substantial house for herself and her father in the suburb of Dalkeith.

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