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Signe Ida Katarina Hornborg (8 November 1862,
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Turku
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– 6 December 1916, Helsinki
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) was a Finnish architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...
. Upon her reception of her architectural diploma in 1890, she became the first official female architect in the world.
Biography
A bishop's daughter, she attended theHelsinki Polytechnic Institute
Helsinki University of Technology (TKK; fi, Teknillinen korkeakoulu; sv, Tekniska högskolan) was a technical university in Finland. It was located in Otaniemi, Espoo in the metropolitan area of Greater Helsinki. The university was founded ...
from the spring of 1888. Hornborg graduated as an architect in 1890 by special permission, as female students were not admitted to the school. After first embarking on active collaboration with Elia Heikel, she joined the agency of Lars Sonck
Lars Eliel Sonck (10 August 1870 – 14 March 1956) was a Finnish architect. He graduated from Helsinki Polytechnic Institute in 1894 and immediately won a major design competition for a church in Turku, St Michael's Church, ahead of many estab ...
.
One of her most notable works is the ''Signelinna'' (also known as ''Nerwanderin talo'' or Nerwander House) in Pori
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, website www.pori.fi
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(1892). She also designed the outside of the Sepänkatu Apartment Building (1897) in Helsinki, as it was not considered right for women to design entire buildings at a time when architecture was a man's profession.
Working in the national romanticism style, Hornborg also contributed to the design for the fire department building in Hamina
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, requiring no fee. She also worked on municipal buildings for poor children in Helsinki.
See also
*Women in architecture
Women in architecture have been documented for many centuries, as professional (or amateur) practitioners, educators and clients. Since architecture became organized as a profession in 1857, the number of women in architecture has been low. At t ...
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