Elsi Borg
Life
She was born in Nastola and died in Helsinki. She graduated from Helsinki University of Technology in 1919.{{cite web | url=http://www.mfa.fi/architect?apid=2904 | title=Elsi Borg | publisher=Museum of Finnish Architecture | accessdate=February 4, 2012}}
She designed the infamous children’s hospital Children's Castle in Helsinki and the Taulumäki Church in Jyväskylä.{{cite book|author=William C Miller|title=Nordic Modernism: Scandinavian Architecture 1890-2017|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aMSCDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT82|date=31 August 2016|publisher=Crowood|isbn=978-1-78500-237-3|page=82}} She worked with Olavi Sortta to design the military hospital in Viborg. Her brother was architect Kaarlo Borg. She is also the sister of graphic artist Esther Borg and Parliament member Margit Borg-Sundman.
In 1919, Elli Ruuth together with Elsa Arokallio, Elsi Borg, Salme Setälä, Eva Kuhlefeld and Aili-Salli Ahde-Kjäldman, was part of the founding group of the Tumstocken association and then the Finnish Association of Women Architects.{{Cite web |title=J. S. Sirén |url=https://www.mfa.fi/kokoelmat/arkkitehdit/j-s-siren/ |access-date=2023-09-03 |website=Arkkitehtuurimuseo |language=fi}}
Sources
- Henttonen, Maarit: Elsi Borg, 1893–1958, arkkitehti. Suomen Rakennustaiteen Museo, 1995. {{ISBN|978-951-9229-87-4}}
- “BLF.” Accessed October 26, 2021.
https://www.blf.fi/artikel.php?id=7791 . - “Taulumäki Church · Finnish Architecture Navigator.” Accessed October 26, 2021.
https://finnisharchitecture.fi/taulumaki-church/ . - Tyvelä, Hanna. “Sukupuolittuneita Näkymiä = Gendered Perspectives on Architectural Practice.” Arkkitehti 116, no. 2 (January 1, 2019): 41–45.
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