Maggie Edmond

As a child, Edmond's family lived in houses designed by notable Australian architects—the Bridgeford House in Black Rock, designed by Robin Boyd in 1953; and the Quamby apartments in South Yarra, designed by Roy Grounds. She has reflected on this upbringing, noting that "from a very early age I was aware that houses I had lived in differed from those of my friends".[4]

Edmond studied architecture at University of Melbourne alongside her first husband, landscape architect Robin Edmond.[5] She completed her Bachelor of Architecture in 1969.[6]

In 1974, she formed a partnership with her husband Peter Corrigan to create the Melbourne-based architectural firm Edmond and Corrigan. She remains a principal of the firm, and manages and presents much of the work.[7]

She was described by Neil Clerehan as "probably the nation's foremost female architect".[8]

The first published projects of Edmond and Corrigan—the Edinburgh Gardens Pavilion (design completed 1977) and Patford House (design completed 1975) in Fitzroy—were developed by Edmond alone.[9]

Edmond became a member of the Deakin University Council in 1999, acting as Deputy Chancellor from 2004-07. She sits as chairperson of Deakin University's Campus Planning Committee.[10]

In 2014, Edmond sat on the jury of the Houses Awards—an annual program to award Australia's best residential architecture projects.[11]

On 21 March 2015, Edmond was awarded an honorary Doctor of Architecture by the University of Melbourne.[12]

In 2001, she was awarded a Life Fellowship by the RAIA.[13]

She is recognised by the Victorian Chapter of the Institute of Architects with the named award, the Maggie Edmond Enduring Architecture Award of which she won the first award in 2003 for the Chapel of St Joseph.

Edmond is the daughter of Melbourne fashion designer Linda Suchestow.[14]

• Hamann, Conrad (1993). Cities of Hope: Australian Architecture and Design by Edmond and Corrigan 1962-92. Oxford. ISBN 0-19-553467-0.
• Corrigan, Peter (1996). Building 8: Edmond and Corrigan at RMIT. Schwarz Transition. ISBN 1863953132.
• Hamann, Conrad (2012). Cities of Hope Re-membered: Australian Architecture by Edmond and Corrigan 1962-2012. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-050050-034-7.
• Spooner, Michael (2013). A Clinic for the Exhausted: In Search of an Antipodean Vitality Edmond & Corrigan and an Itinerant Architecture. Spurbuchverlag. ISBN 978-3-88778-392-1.
• Peter Corrigan: cities of hope. RMIT Gallery. 2013. ISBN 9780980771046.
• Influence : Edmond & Corrigan + Peter Corrigan. Uro Publications. 2019. ISBN 9780648435501.