About / Biography
Elin Hirsch is an architect working across architecture, research, and curation, with a focus on existing buildings and landscapes, shaped by culture, dependencies and systems.
Her practice explores how built and unbuilt environments can be repaired, reused, adapted, and continued with care. Drawing on spatial, material, cultural, ecological, and historical perspectives, she develops project-specific approaches to working with what already exists.
Her work spans architectural projects, curatorial formats, practice-based research, and advisory work. Across these fields, she is concerned with spatial experience, material responsibility, and the layered meanings embedded in buildings, sites, and landscapes.
Curriculum vitae
Elin Ingrid Hirsch
*1987, Freiburg, Germany
Education
Master in Building Culture – Sustainability, Strategy and Transformation, Postgraduate programme, Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, 2023–2025
MA in Architecture (cand. Arch), Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, 2014–2016
BSc in Architecture, Technische Universität Wien, 2013-2014
Undergraduate Studies in Architecture, ETH Zürich, 2007–2012
Architectural Practice
Architect / Founder — Elin Hirsch Studio (formerly Studio Hirsch), Svendborg, 2022–present
Project Architect — Praksis Arkitekter, Svendborg, 2024–2025 | Transformation, cultural heritage
Collaborating Architect — Vaag Arkitekter, Kerteminde, 2024 | Preservation, restoration and conservation
Architectural positions in Denmark and Sweden, including Erik Arkitekter, Nordic Office of Architecture, White Arkitekter, Arkitema and Gehl, 2016–2022
Architectural internships in Switzerland and Germany, including Graber Pulver Architekten and Böwer Eith Murken, 2008–2009 and 2011–2012
Advisory & Curatorial Work
Professional Advisor
Visual Arts Council Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality, 2024–present
Advising on public art in relation to site selection, spatial integration, wayfinding, accessibility, sustainability and public mediation
Curator / Co-founder
Den Nordiske Ambassade, Svendborg, 2025–present
Development and curation of exhibitions, events and interdisciplinary formats at the intersection of architecture and art
Curator / Co-founder
Bar’kitektur, non-profit association and platform for architectural discourse, Svendborg, 2023–2025
Curating and moderating architectural talks, debates and public events, including fundraising, partnerships, communication and public engagement
Funding for Bar’kitektur from Realdania, Land & By, the Danish Association of Architects, Faberske Fond, Faaborg Kulturpulje and others, 2024–2025
Appointment as Sustainability Advisor for UNDERVÆRKER, a Realdania initiative, 2023
Featured graduation project “Re-housing Danish Suburbia” in the exhibition “Sustainia Living” at Operaen and Industriens Hus, Copenhagen, 2016
Featured second-year residential semester project “Inductus”, Chair of Prof. Andrea Deplazes, ETH Zurich Yearbook, 2009
Architectural and curatorial projects, writing and advisory work.
Elin Hirsch
Architect MA Arch. / cand.arch
Work and collaborations:
Copenhagen, Berlin,
Basel / Zurich.
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T (+45) 4231 0239
studio@elinhirsch.com
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