Brit Andresen was born in Norway in 1945. She completed her early education in England and Sydney before studying architecture at the University of Trondheim in Norway, graduating in 1969. In 1971, she began her practice in Cambridge and taught at the University of Cambridge and the Architectural Association, London (1971-77). In 1976 she accepted an appointment as a lecturer at the University of Queensland which she commenced in 1977. In 1980, Andresen married Peter O’Gorman (1940-2001) and together formed the practice Andresen O’Gorman. In 1981 she took leave from UQ and accepted an appointment as assistant professor at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA (1981-83). In November, 2010 Andresen retired from UQ and was appointed Emeritus Professor of the School of Architecture. -- From Digital archive of Queensland architecture

Peter Harry O’Gorman was an Australian architect. Born in Brisbane in 1940, O’Gorman graduated from the University of Queensland in 1964 and started a sole practice. His early approach to system building enabled people of lesser means access to high-quality architecture. In the late 1970s he met Brit Andresen, with whom he formed an architectural partnership. They also both taught at the University of Queensland and subsequently married. From 1980 onwards Andresen O’Gorman completed numerous buildings. Their work has been widely published, and was brought to an international audience, particularly by the Mooloomba House on North Stradbroke Island. Peter O'Gorman died on 19 October 2001.

Michael Dennis Keniger, born 12 April 1947, is an award-winning architect and academic, and was Queensland Government architect from 1996 to 2008. He was awarded Queensland Architect of the Year in 1998. He was Head of Architecture at the University of Queensland for a decade from 1990 to 2000 and held many other senior roles at UQ, including Deputy Vice-Chancellor, until his resignation in 2011. He is currently an architecture professor at Bond University.

Prior to 1982, known as Church of England in Australia Diocese of Brisbane.

Andresen O’Gorman was an architectural partnership of Brit Andresen and Peter O’Gorman. It was formed in Brisbane in 1980 and mostly worked with private residences in south-east Queensland. The works of the Andresen O’Gorman are mostly timber houses of modest scale on individual sites. They are characterised by their responses to the subtropical climate and include the linear planning of open and enclosed spaces, the layering of zones of inhabitation, and circulation and the opening up of internal spaces to the external environment. These characteristics are most pronounced in projects such as Ocean View farmhouse at Mt Mee (1994-1995), Roseberry house at Highgate Hill (1994-1997), Mooloomba house on North Stradbroke Island (1995-1997) and the Moreton Bay houses at Wynnum (1998-2001).