(b Vienna, 30 Nov 1939). Canadian architect. She trained (1958–9) at the Technische Hochschule in Graz, Austria and received a BArch. (1963) and MArch. in Urban Design (1967) from the University of Toronto. In the mid 1970s she joined the Toronto architectural firm Fairfield DuBois (now Dubois Plumb Partnership) and became a partner in 1980. The partnership produced a wide range of works, including housing, hospitals and office and university buildings. In her large-scale office project the Joseph Shephard Building (1980) in North York, Ontario, reference to the surrounding open landscape is suggested by the horizontal emphasis of the long rows of windows fronted by brick terraces. Plumb’s belief that new structures should be designed to integrate with existing buildings in the area informs her award-winning project, the Oaklands Condominiums (1981), Toronto. The pointed gable roofs recall 19th-century domestic architecture, yet the simplified lines of the buildings constitute a modernist reworking. In contrast, the interior area, with its high-walled corridors and curved glass ceilings, makes little reference to the past. Plumb taught at various architecture schools, including the University of Waterloo, Ontario (1981–2), and the Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax (1985–6).