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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon MORGENSTERN, Riva Born: 1925 01 06 Died: 2011 10 26 Architect SACA: Reg No: 1156 Year registered: 1949 BArch 1950 (Witwatersrand), DipTP 1952 (Witwatersrand). Riva Borkowf was born on 6 January 1925 in Lithuania. The family left owing to increasing anti-Semitism when she was a young girl and they ended up in South Africa. She studied architecture at University of the Witwatersrand, there she met Jacques MORGENSTERN and they were married in December 1950, following their respective graduations. Over the next two years she studied Town Planning, earning her Diploma in 1952. Riva was proclaimed as "The first woman in the Union to receive a Diploma in Town Planning." Riva and Jacques established a joint architecture practice named MORGENSTERN & MORGENSTERN. The Morgensterns had six daughters. There is an obituary to Riva and Jacques on the MORGENSTERN & MORGENSTERN entry with more photographs. Books citing MORGENSTERN ISAA. 1959. The Yearbook of the Institute of South African Architects and Chapter of SA Quantity Surveyors 1958-1959 : Die Jaarboek van die Instituut van Suid-Afrikaanse Argitekte en Tak van Suid-Afrikaanse Bourekenaars 1958-1959. Johannesburg: ISAA. pp 94, 189 Wale, Laurie (Editor). 1962. New home building ideas : Architects' plans for southern Africa. Cape Town: Purnell & Sons. pp 20-26