[1] Eva Kuhlefelt-Ekelund was born in Loviisa, Finland, and matriculated from the Helsinki New Swedish secondary school in 1910.
[1] She made study trips to Scandinavian countries as well as to Italy and France.
[1] Kuhlefelt-Ekelund also collaborated with another architect, Elsi Borg, and mapped and documented with her Swedish manors and castles.
[1] In 1920 Eva Kuhlefelt married architect Hilding Ekelund and chose her two-part surname, Kuhlefelt-Ekelund.
Kuhlefelt-Ekelund designed Privata svenska flickskolan ('Private Swedish girls' school') in Apollonkatu in Helsinki, which was completed in 1929.