Brita Snellman (later Ribbing; 21 May 1901 – 9 June 1978) was a Swedish architect. In 1924, she became the first woman to graduate in architecture as a regular student at the

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in Stockholm.

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Snellman obtained good results in drawing and mathematics in her school leaving examination after her schooling in the Stockholm district of Djursholm. As a result, her father, a bank manager, engaged

Gunnar Asplund Erik Gunnar Asplund (22 September 1885 – 20 October 1940) was a Swedish architect, mostly known as a key representative of Nordic Classicism of the 1920s during the last decade of his life. At this time, he was a major proponent of the mode ...

to introduce her to architecture. In 1920, she was admitted to the Royal Institute of Technology as a special student but the following year, after a change in the statutes, she was given the status of a regular student. In 1924, Snellman was the first woman to graduate in architecture under the new rules. In August 1924, she was employed as an architect by Ragnar Hjorth (1887–1971). In 1925, she took up employment with the architect Dag Ribbing (1898–1980), whom she married. She later undertook commissions together with her son Lennart Ribbing (1927–1993).

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