Hillevi Svedberg (1910–1990) was an early Swedish female architect whose work was inspired by Functionalism . She is remembered for introducing showers and bathrooms in working-class housing and for her low-cost collective housing developments with children's care centres. One of her most successful buildings was the Yrkeskvinnornas Kollektivhus or YK-House (1939) in Stockholm 's Gärdet district which she designed in collaboration with Albin Stark (1885–1960).
18-845: [REDACTED] Hillevi Svedberg [REDACTED] Hillevi Engström [REDACTED] Hillevi Larsson Hillevi (also Hellevi ) is a Scandinavian version of the German name Helvig , originally Heilwig. The oldest record of a Swedish woman by the name Hillevi is from 1482. Notable people named Hillevi [ edit ] Hillevi Engström , Swedish politician and Minister for International Development Cooperation Hillevi Lagerstam , Finnish actress Hillevi Larsson , Swedish politician Hillevi Martinpelto , Swedish opera singer Hillevi Rombin , Swedish model and actress Hillevi Svedberg , Swedish architect References [ edit ] ^ Nomina, database of Swedish names maintained by
36-525: A classic in the field. On May 11, 1905, Catherine Krouse Bauer was born in Elizabeth , New Jersey to Alberta Krouse Bauer, a self-educated homemaker , and Jacob Bauer . Her father, a state highway engineer , was an early advocate of superhighways and implemented the first cloverleaf interchanges in America while serving as New Jersey's Chief Highway Engineer. Bauer's younger sister was Elizabeth Bauer Mock ,
54-783: A curator and Director of the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and her brother was Jacob Louis Bauer Jr., an engineer. Bauer completed her secondary education at the Vail-Deane School in her hometown. She first attended Vassar College , spent one year as an architecture student at Cornell University , then transferred back to Vassar College from which she received her undergraduate degree in 1926. In 1926–1927, Bauer spent time in Paris , where she befriended Fernand Léger , Man Ray , and Sylvia Beach . Inspired by
72-710: A federal agency of the Department of the Interior under the New Deal . She served as consultant and adviser to national, state, and local housing and planning agencies during the 1930s-1960s including the Federal Housing Administration , the Housing and Home Finance Agency , and the California Housing and Planning Association. Bauer was instrumental in the creation of the influential documentary film The City , which
90-641: A scholarship from the Sweden-America Foundation which allowed her to spend six months in the United States. While there she met Catherine Bauer , Eliel Saarinen , Carl Milles , Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright and joined a team set up by Franklin D. Roosevelt to plan housing developments. Hillevi Svedberg died in Stockholm on 19 June 1990. Catherine Bauer Catherine Krouse Bauer Wurster (May 11, 1905 – November 21, 1964)
108-573: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Hillevi Svedberg Born on 20 December 1910 in Uppsala , Hillevi Svedberg was the daughter of the Nobel chemistry laureate Theodor Svedberg and the physician Andrea Andreen . Her brother Elias Svedberg (1913–1987) was an interior designer. She studied architecture at Stockholm's Royal Institute of Technology , graduating in 1933. Only very few Swedish women had studied architecture as until 1921, it
126-527: The Swedish History Museum [REDACTED] Name list This page or section lists people that share the same given name . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hillevi&oldid=1236878016 " Category : Given names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
144-599: The Tenney Committee during the Red Scare of the 1950s. Bauer Wurster contributed to the establishment of University of California, Berkeley's UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design , contributed to the founding of the progressive architectural research group Telesis and served on the editorial board of the Telesis-affiliated publication, Task , a short-lived but influential architectural journal published during
162-676: The 1940s. She died in a fall during a solo hike on Mount Tamalpais , Marin County , California , on November 21, 1964. A bust of Catherine Bauer Wurster is located in the Environmental Design Library at UC Berkeley. An Oscar Stonorov bust of Wurster adorns the Robert C. Weaver Federal Building 's Main (South) lobby in Washington DC. The UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design 's Catherine Bauer Wurster Award for Social Practice
180-586: The city planning vision advanced by French architect Le Corbusier , Bauer published an article on his worker's apartments in suburban Paris. Returning to New York City in 1927, Bauer worked at a number of publishing houses, eventually collaborating with American urban critic Lewis Mumford beginning in the late 1920s. It was at his urging that she became involved with the architects of change in post- World War I Europe , among them Ernst May , André Lurçat , and Walter Gropius . Convinced that good social housing could produce good social architecture, and moved by
198-565: The design of the collective housing building on Stockholm's John Ericssonsgatan. With its 57 apartments, a restaurant and a children's day care centre, it was Sweden's first development in collective housing. Even more successful was the building she designed in collaboration with Albin Stark. Commissioned by Yrkeskvinnornas Klubb (the Professional Women's Club) it became known as the YK-House. It
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#1733086007292216-628: The economy through housing construction. In 1936 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study housing in Europe and the USSR. Bauer was the primary author of the Housing Act of 1937 and advised five presidents on housing and urban planning strategies. Following the passage of the Housing Act of 1937 , she was named the Director of Information and Research for the newly formed United States Housing Authority ,
234-647: The visible ravages of the Depression , she became a passionate leader in the fight for housing for the poor and in 1934 accepted an appointment by the American Federation of Labor (AFL) to become Executive Director of the new Labor Housing Conference based in Philadelphia . Her book Modern Housing (1934) described the housing achievements Bauer had observed in Europe and lessons for the United States capturing attention of New Deal policy-makers who wanted to boost
252-452: Was an American public housing advocate and educator of city planners and urban planners . A leading member of the "housers," a group of planners who advocated affordable housing for low-income families, she dramatically changed social housing practice and law in the United States. Wurster's influential book Modern Housing was published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1934 and is regarded as
270-642: Was completed in 1939 in the Gärdet district of the city. Stark designed the façades while Svedberg had responsibility for the interiors. Drawing on her earlier experience, she installed even larger kitchens and ensured better natural lighting. Like the building on Ericssonsgatan, it also had a restaurant and a day care centre. Svedberg moved into one of the apartments herself, with her husband and initially two children, soon to grow to four. She became fully engaged in collective housing design, writing articles and taking up speaking assignments on her work. In 1937, Svedberg won
288-589: Was established to recognize alumni who have made significant contributions in their professions. The building that houses the College of Environmental Design at Berkeley was renamed the Bauer Wurster Building in 2020 to clarify that it was named in honor of both William Wurster and Catherine Bauer Wurster. The lifetime achievement award of the Nonprofit Housing Association of Northern California
306-638: Was included in the 1939 New York World's Fair. In 1940, Bauer accepted a position as Visiting Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley 's School of Social Welfare. During the 1940s-1950s she lectured and led seminars at Harvard University , Cornell University , Mills College , and University of Wisconsin , and in 1950 joined the department of architecture at University of California, Berkeley . After her marriage to San Francisco area architect William Wurster , whom she met while teaching at UC Berkeley in 1940, both withstood accusations of disloyalty by
324-517: Was only available for men. On 29 June 1933, she married the engineer Knut Robert Knutsson Almström (1907–1980). Immediately after her graduation, she was employed by the architect Carl Otto Hallström, but soon established her own business. Inspired by her mother's concern for social work and Hallström's involvement with the national health authority, she worked on the design of retirement homes, schools and orphanages. In 1933, together with Sven Markelius , she turned to more radical work, participating in
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