Franca Helg

Franca Helg (21 February 1920 – 4 June 1989) was an Italian designer and architect.

She also had a career teaching at Istituto Universitario Architettura Venezia and Polytechnic of Milan.

Graduated from the Politecnico di Milano in 1945, Franca Helg was active both in the field of architectural planning and in industrial design, with important project interventions often in collaboration with Franco Albini, with whom she was for long associated professionally, from 1951 until the death of Albini in 1977.

[2][3] Subsequent to which she worked with Marco Albini and Antonio Piva.

[2][4] Among her works, the Roman stores La Rinascente, in Piazza Fiume, the Terme Luigi Zoja of Salsomaggiore, the Museo degli Eremitani in Padova.

Helg and Albini at 1964 Compasso d'Oro award ceremony
The neighborhood of Piccapietra in Genova projected by the architects Franco Albini and Franca Helg portrayed by the Italian photographer Paolo Monti
The neighborhood of Piccapietra in Genova projected by the architects Franco Albini and Franca Helg portrayed by the Italian photographer Paolo Monti