Buhrich studied architecture at the Polytechnic University, Berlin with Hans Poelzig, moving to Zurich’s Technical University, then England by 1938, later to Australia in 1939. She worked as an architect in Canberra, moving to Sydney where she worked for the Commonwealth Experimental Building Station. By 1950, she was working as a design writer and critic with a column in the Sydney Morning Herald from 1957 to the late 1960s.