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, research, writing and advisory work.
Curriculum vitae / C.v
Elin Ingrid Hirsch
born in Freiburg in Southern Germany, 11th February 1987
Education
Master in Building Culture – Sustainability, Strategy and Transformation
Postgraduate programme, Royal Danish Academy– Architecture, Design and Conservation, 2023–2025
MA in Architecture (cand.arch.)
Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design and Conservation, 2014–2016
BSc in Architecture, Technische Universität, Wien, 2013- 2014
Undergraduate Studies in Architecture, ETH Zürich, 2007–2012
Professional Practice
Independent Architectural Practice — 2022– present (formerly Studio Hirsch)
Project Architect — Praksis Arkitekter, Troense, 2024–2025 I Transformation
Collaborating Architect — Vaag Arkitekter, Kerteminde, 2023–2024 I Conservation and preservation
Founder & Architect — Studio Hirsch, Svendborg, 2022–2025
Architect — ERIK Arkitekter, Copenhagen / Odense, 2021–2022
Project Architect — Rubow Arkitekter, Copenhagen, 2018–2021
Architect — White Arkitekter, Malmö, 2017–2018
Architect — Arkitema, Copenhagen, 2017
Architect (project-based) — Gehl, Copenhagen, 2016
Architectural Intern — Graber Pulver Architekten, Zurich, 2012–2013
Architectural Intern —Böwer Eith Murken, Freiburg, 2008–2009
Professional Roles and Activities
Professional Advisor — Visual Arts Council of Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality, 2024–present
- Assessment of artistic projects
- Advisory work on visual arts in public contexts
Co-founder and Board Member — Bar’kitektur (non-profit association), 2023–2025
- Fundraising, partnerships, and curation of discussion salons
- Public engagement and professional dialogue
Selected Working and Project Grants
Grant for Bar’kitektur, a non-profit project and community of architects and artists
Sponsors: Realdania, Land & By, and the Danish Association of Architects, 2024-2025.
Appointments and features
Appointment as Sustainability Advisor for UNDERVÆRKER, a Realdania initiative
(representing Studio Hirsch), 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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