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Helge Westermann (1914-2010) was a Danish-born American architect in practice in New York City from 1953 to 1978.

Life and career
Helge Westermann was born October 25, 1914 in Esbjerg, Denmark. He was educated in the United States, earning an M.Arch. from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1945, with supplementary studies in urban planning at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 1947 he moved to New York City where he joined the hospital planning firm of Neergaard & Craig. The firm later became Neergaard, Agnew & Craig and then Neergaard, Agnew, Craig & Westermann when Westermann was made a partner in 1953. He left the firm in 1955 to pursue private practice. Like his former employers, Westermann focused his practice on hospital design. In 1964 he formed the firm of Helge Westermann/Richard Miller/Associates with Richard Miller, formerly a professor of architecture at Columbia University. They practiced together until Westermann's retirement in 1978. In addition to his hospital work, Westermann was also associate architect with Pietro Belluschi and Eduardo Catalano in the design of the Juilliard School, completed in 1969, and the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, completed in 1984. In the fifth edition of the AIA Guide to New York City, the authors identify Westermann's work at the Montefiore Medical Center and North Central Bronx Hospital as "examplary" examples of public architecture.

Westermann joined the American Institute of Architects in 1947, and was elected a Fellow in 1974. He died August 4, 2010 in Washington, D.C. at the age of 95.

Architectural works

 * Gorgas Hospital (former), Calle 53 Este, Panama City, Panama (1961-64)
 * McCauley Tower of Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland (1962-63)
 * Juilliard School, 60 Lincoln Center Plz, New York City (1965-69)
 * Northwest Building, Montefiore Medical Center, the Bronx (1966)
 * Middletown State Hospital rehabilitation center, Middletown, New York (1967)
 * Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts (1968)
 * Hospital Regional de Caguas (former), PR-172, Caguas, Puerto Rico (1968)
 * Bronx House, 990 Pelham Pkwy S, the Bronx (1970-73)
 * Edna and Monroe C. Gutman Center, Montefiore Medical Center, the Bronx (1970)
 * Yale University Health Services (former), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (1970-71)
 * North Central Bronx Hospital, 3424 Kossuth Ave, the Bronx (1972-76)
 * Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, 100 Amsterdam Ave, New York City (1973-84)
 * St. Mary's Hospital, 200 Jefferson Ave SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan (1975-76)