| Franca Helg | |
| Birth Date: | 21 February 1920 |
| Birth Place: | Milan |
| Death Place: | Milan |
| Nationality: | Italian |
| Alma Mater: | Polytechnic University of Milan |
| Practice: | Polytechnic University of Milan |
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.[1] She collaborated with Franco Albini from 1945 through 1977.
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.
After having been assistant to the seat of architectural composition held by Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso first at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (Iuav) and then at then at the Politecnico di Milano, there followed associate teaching in 1967, teaching the same discipline, in which she became tenured in 1984.[4]
Among her works, the Roman stores La Rinascente, in Piazza Fiume, the Terme Luigi Zoja of Salsomaggiore, the Museo degli Eremitani in Padova.