Hillevi Svedberg
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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).[1][2]
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 was only available for men. On 29 June 1933, she married the engineer Knut Robert Knutsson Almström (1907–1980).[1]
