Brita Snellman, also Brita Ribbing, (21 May 1901 - 9 June 1978) was a Swedish architect. In 1924, she became the first woman to graduate in architecture as a regular student at the
Royal Institute of Technology
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in
Stockholm
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.
Biography
Snellman obtained good results in drawing and mathematics in her school leaving examination after her schooling in the Stockholm district of
Djursholm
Djursholm () is one of four suburban districts in, and the seat of Danderyd Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. Djursholm is included in the multi-municipal Stockholm urban area. Djursholm is divided into a number of different areas: Djursh ...
. As a result, her father, a bank manager, engaged
Gunnar Asplund
Erik Gunnar Asplund (22 September 1885 – 20 October 1940) was a Swedish architect, mostly known as a key representative of Nordic Classicism of the 1920s, and during the last decade of his life as a major proponent of the modernist style whi ...
to introduce her to architecture.
In 1920, she was admitted to the Royal Institute of Technology as a special student but the following year, after a change in the statutes, she was given the status of a regular student.
In 1924, Snellman was the first woman to graduate in architecture under the new rules.
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In August 1924, she was employed as an architect by Ragnar Hjorth (1887–1971).][
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1901 births
1978 deaths
20th-century Swedish architects
Swedish women architects
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