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Alexis Ord

Alexis Ord

Australian Lord Mayor

Alexis Ord, also known as Lecki Ord, was Lord Mayor of Melbourne from 1987 to 1988. She was the first woman to hold that position.[1] Ord has been involved in several community activist groups, such as the Friends of the ABC,[2] founding member of the Women's Planning Network,[3] and the environmental movement.[4]

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Work

Ord was an architect by training. Her interests were primarily in planning issues and environmental sustainability.[5] This interest is evident during her time at architecture school where her Carlton terrace-house was "the central driving force" behind the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia student conference in 1964.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    "Women's Time – Taking Time". Archived from the original on 14 March 2003. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  2. [2]
    "Jonathan Shier Departs". Archived from the original on 21 May 2003. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  3. [3]
    Day, Kirsten; Raisbeck, Peter (2021). "The Last Laugh and Its Afterlife: Emerging Narratives in 1970s Melbourne Architecture". Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand. 31 (3): 336–356.
  4. [4]
    "Lecki Ord: First woman Lord Mayor of the City of Melbourne". Archived from the original on 24 October 2010. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  5. [5]
    "Ord, Lecki". Australian Women's Register. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  6. [6]
    "New Materials, New Architecture, 1964, Melbourne". architecture.com.au. Archived from the original on 8 March 2018. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
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