Margaret Anne Fellman was born in Crawley, Western Australia back in 1921 to Herbert and Ethel. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Western Australia in 1943. She continued her education at the Perth Technical College passing the exam for Registration as an Architect in 1945.
She was the first female cadet in the Public Works Department of Western Australia, receiving a British Council scholarship in 1948. In 1950, she completed her Postgraduate Diploma at the University of Durham. Afterwards she returned to Perth opening a practice in architecture. A founding member of the National Trust of Australia, she also became the Commission of the Australian Heritage Commission in 1976. She died in 2013, she was 92.
What you may not know about Margaret is that she was Perth’s first female town planner. She was the architect that planned the town site of Kwinana, New Town used to house 25,000 industry employees.
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