About / Biography
Elin Hirsch is an architect working cross-disciplinarily, seeking new perspectives on how and what we build.
Her architectural and curatorial practice merges critical and ecological thinking with research to explore the sustainable relations humans establish with and within built and unbuilt landscapes.
Her approach integrates collaboration, spatial concepts, and research-driven reflective practice.
In her projects, the focus lies on the interrelations between structure and detail within social, material, cultural, and political frameworks, seeking to foster care and planetary responsibility. Through exploring these relationships and dependencies, she aims to identify a project’s bearing elements for sustainable and regenerative adaptation and transformation.
Alongside this practice, her research explores the interconnections between human spatial experience and the built environment, investigating how spatial concepts might move beyond physically patched landscapes toward the careful transformation of existing qualities and atmospheres—allowing narratives and traces to persist.
Her work spans from architectural and curatorial projects, practice-based research and advisory work.
Curriculum vitae
Elin Ingrid Hirsch
*1987, Freiburg, Germany
Education
Master in Building Culture – Sustainability, Strategy & 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 (diploma) — 2013-2014
Undergraduate Studies in Architecture, ETH Zürich, 2007–2012
Professional Practice
Own Practice — Elin Hirsch Studio, 2022– present (formerly Studio Hirsch)
Project Architect — Praksis Arkitekter, Svendborg, 2024–2025 I Transformation
Collaborating Architect — Vaag Arkitekter, Kerteminde, 2024 I Preservation
Project Architect— ERIK Arkitekter, Copenhagen / Odense, 2021–2022
Architectural positions in established practices in Denmark, Sweden,
Erik Arkitekter/Rubow Arkitekter/White Arkitekter/Arkitema, and Gehl, 2016–2022
Architectural internships in Switzerland and Germany, 2008–2009 and 2012–2013
Professional Roles and Activities
Professional Advisor
Visual Arts Council of Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality, 2024–present
- Advising on the integration of public art in urban space, including site selection, spatial integration, wayfinding, and accessibility
- Contributing to citizen engagement processes and mediation of public art
- Addressing social and material sustainability in restoration and relocation processes
Curator / Co-founder
TRAKT, Svendborg — 2025–present
Experimental exhibition and event space at the intersection of art and architecture
- Curating exhibitions and hosting talks, events, and interdisciplinary programs
Curator / Co-founder
Bar’kitektur - non-profit association and platform for architectural discourse, Svendborg — 2023–2025
- Curating and hosting talks and discussions on architecture
- Fundraising, partnership building, communication, and outreache
Selected Working and Project Grants
Grants for Bar’kitektur from Realdania, Land & By, and the Danish Association of Architects, 2024-2025.
Appointments and features
Appointment as Sustainability Advisor for UNDERVÆRKER, a Realdania initiative, 2023
Featured graduation project ´Rehousing Danish Suburbia´, Sustainia Living exhibition, Operaen / Industriens Hus, Copenhagen, 2016
Featured semester project ´Inductus´ (residential), ETH Zurich Yearbook, 2009
Architectural and curatorial projects, research, 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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