Helen Margaret Tippett OBE (née O'Donnell; 23 March 1933 – 11 February 2004) was an architecture academic in Australia and New Zealand.
[1] She was educated at Geelong Church of England Girls' Grammar School, The Hermitage,[1] and went on to study architecture at the University of Melbourne in the early 1950s, where her peers' description of her work at this time reveals "a determination to solve problems of careful planning analysis and building production as part of the design process".
[2] She graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture (Honours) in 1954, and later completed a Master of Business Administration degree at Melbourne in 1974.
[5] During her family's three years in Beirut, she worked on projects in the Middle East, dressing as a man when she visited building sites.
[5] She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to architecture, in the 1994 Queen's Birthday Honours.