[1] From 1916 - 1922, she attended Clyde School at both its East St Kilda and Woodend (which she was later commissioned to alter in 1940 through Romberg & Shaw[3]) campuses.

[1] While working for Stephenson, she became well known for her capacity to administer and supervise large projects, particularly hospitals including St Vincent's (1933), the Mercy (1934, 1937-1939) and the Freemasons' (1935).

[3] In the early fifties, Shaw returned to the Public Works Department in Sydney, as the Architect-in-charge for the design and construction of Commonwealth Migrant Hostels.

[2][3] In 1937, after setting up the Sydney Branch office for Stephenson, she was appointed associate member of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects (RVIA).

[2][3] It was the latter that led to her rejoining Bates Smart McCutcheon in 1956, becoming the first full-time architectural librarian, a role that involved collecting technical information and archived plans and drawings, before retiring in 1969.

[1] Designed in 1940 Architect: Frederick Romberg and Mary Turner Shaw Located: 2 Horsburgh Grove, Armadale In the first decades of the 20th century, and gaining momentum after World War I, apartment buildings started to appear in Melbourne.

The residents’ ways of life, personal and social, were negatively impacted by the war in Australia, and it worsened into a housing shortage as the population increased.

And driven by that growth, South Yarra and Toorak started to give in to what Wilde (1999:40) describes as "the combined pressures of probate, depression and profit".

Before war regulation that stopped all of the buildings, both architects—Frederick Romberg and Mary Turner Shaw performed the last private commission for Glenunga.

[4] The entry side in the functional plan of Glenunga flats is divided with driveway and external stairs, originating from the garden.

[4] Romberg and Shaw's way of defining the International Style was different as they included stones and bricks, instead of going with plain white form.

Nevertheless, there are still the flat roof structure and modelling of form which are still retained in the Style, including the stepped planning which strives for privacy for the residents.

Furthermore, it is worth noting that Glenunga has the angled glass bays which are associated with Romberg's admiration for Alvar Aalto's Villa Mairea, Finland in 1937–1938.

With wanting to include arts to the building, following the steps of the Swiss, Gert Sellheim was appointed to handle the matter of having colourful sundial on the main front wall and Aboriginal paintings in the entrance porches.

[6] Using glazed in the rooftop pergola at the front of Newburn with cantilevered balconies; Romberg attempted to construct a penthouse flat and office.

[7] Being one of the first blocks of apartments to reflect the innovative Europe-style architecture at the time, Newburn comes with an offset plan reminiscent of Berlin housing zone by Gropius.

Newburn was ahead of its time and sophisticated, and the architect associated with it, Frederick Romberg eventually started his own design company with Roy Burman Grounds and Robin Boyd.

The curved floating canopy at the entry pierced by circular skylights reappears on a much larger scale at Stanhill, designed the year before but not built until the later 40s.