Cornelia Brierly (1913–2012) was an American architect and one of the first five women to study architecture at Carnegie Tech.
Cornelia Brierly was born April 12, 1913, in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.
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[clarification needed].
[1][2] She studied with Wright for 10 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.