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Cornelia Brierly

1913 – 2012

American architect

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Lived 1913 – 2012 (aged 99). Cornelia Brierly was an American architect.

Cornelia Brierly (1913–2012) was an American architect and one of the first five women to study architecture at Carnegie Tech. She was the first female fellow of Frank Lloyd Wright in Taliesin, 1934.

Life Cornelia Brierly was born April 12, 1913, in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. She studied briefly at Cornell University and the University of Pittsburgh before she enrolled in Carnegie Tech, becoming one of the first five women to study architecture in the program. In 1934 she joined the Taliesin Fellowship under Frank Lloyd Wright. She worked on Wright’s Broadacre City plan, building models in Arizona and traveling to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C., to explain the ideas to a wider audience.

Brierly studied with Wright for ten years before starting a private practice with her husband Peter Berndtson. In 1956 she returned to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation working as an architectural designer, interior decorator, and landscape architect. She served as Honorary Chairman and Trustee of the Foundation.

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Carnegie Mellon University

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American architect

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Cornelia Brierly was born on 12 April 1913 in Pennsylvania, Mifflin County.

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Cornelia Brierly died on 24 August 2012.

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Cornelia Brierly was an architect.

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· Wikidata: Q19510486

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