Florence Mary Taylor CBE OBE (1879-1969) was Australia's first qualified woman architect, structural engineer and civil engineer. On 3 April 1907, she married architect-engineer- craftsman and pioneer aviator George Augustine Taylor (1872-1928). After their marriage the Taylors established the Building Publishing Company. They developed a successful stable of industry publications, largely written by the Taylors, and spearheaded by Building magazine (1907-1972).

Targeting the Australian building community, the editors of Building promised their readers impartially. Declaring that ‘no puffing will be found in its reading matter’, the journal’s intention was clearly stated in its first issue in September 1907:

To record their doings, study their requirements, watch legislative and other movements that may affect their interests, lay before them the cream of the world’s research in their various lines, and study for them fluctuations in property and building materials.

The magazine offered ‘influential commentary on the built environment in Australia’ for the next half century. Florence Taylor wrote a regular column which highlighted women in architecture and, following the death of her husband in 1928, took over as editor and producer of Building until her retirement in 1961. An official journal of the Master Builders' Federation of Australia, the nation’s oldest industry association, Building continued to publish up-to-date information of interest to tradespeople, suppliers, professional and home builders alike into the 1970s.