She studied at the Royal Drafting School (now Oslo National Academy of the Arts) under Herman Major Schirmer, graduating in 1894.

She also served architectural apprenticeships with architects Halfdan Berle Oslo and Martin Nyrop in Copenhagen.

After her breakthrough the same year with Heftyeterrassen, a residential complex at Thomas Heftyes gate 42 in Oslo, she went on to design a number of large villas as well as a hospital and student accommodation for women.

[4] At Asker in 1910, she drew the main building at Hval farm for estate owner Wilhelm Roede.

Gyldenløves gate 19 from 1929 is a monumental structure designed in Neoclassical architecture on Arno Bergs plass in Frogner.