Fall 25 YR.4/5
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Introduction
Course codes for the Studio projects fall 2025:
YR 4: Autumn A42A13 + A42B13 (Spring A42C14 + A42D14)
YR 5: Autumn and Spring A52A13 + A52B13
This Mk1 of the Catalogue, published 22 August 2025.
Please note: Next studio selection will be in the spring term’s first week, January 2025.
This booklet presents the full range of studio-based courses offered at the Advanced Level (Second Cycle) within the KTH School of Architecture. It includes studios in Architecture, Sustainable Urban Planning and Design (SUPD), and Architectural Lighting Design (LODM), reflecting the school’s broad and interdisciplinary approach to architectural education.
We warmly welcome all new, returning, and visiting students to the KTH School of Architecture. Whether you are beginning your Master’s studies, continuing your journey, or joining us for a semester abroad, the advanced level studios offer a unique opportunity to develop your architectural thinking through projectbased learning, critical inquiry, and collaborative exploration.
Each studio provides a thematic framework for in-depth design investigations, supported by dedicated school teams and embedded within a vibrant research and teaching environment. Studios are complemented by seminar-based courses in theory, methods, and technology, forming a holistic and flexible curriculum that equips students to engage with the social, ecological, and spatial challenges of our time.
We look forward to welcoming you into our community of practice and inquiry at KTH.
Katja Grillner, Head of the School of Architecture
The division of Architecture, Culture and Environment explores and communicates architecture from a broad cultural-historical and socially critical perspective.
Culture and environment are heterogeneous concepts in continuous change. This complexity is studied through the discipline of architecture: How does architecture contribute to the production of cultures and environments? And on the other hand, how are cultural context and the environment forging architecture?
The division focuses on architecture as a cultural practice that instigates life-worlds through built and imagined architecture. By combining artistic and creative methods with ideological critique, the division aims to develop perspectives on climate change, sustainability, and democratic welfare infrastructures through education and research. Essential explorative themes in the division are contemporary history – a historical awareness of contemporary issues – and architecture as a profession, discipline, and cultural expression. Through drawings, full-scale buildings, models, and texts, various ideological systems and the influence of power structures on architecture are examined, and conversely, architecture’s reproduction of these systems and structures.
The division Architecture, Landscapes and Cities explores how spatial practices engage with the complex and shifting conditions of contemporary urban life. With a foundation in architecture, the division brings together interdisciplinary approaches to study and transform cities, landscapes, and public spaces as sites of cultural, political, ecological, and material negotiation. At t he undergraduate level, teaching includes introductions to city planning, the design of public space and landscape, and architectural typologies that respond to urban conditions. The division contributes centrally to the Sustainable Urban Planning and Design (SUPD) master’s programme and supports interdisciplinary teaching environments and advanced-level studios.
Urban design, territorial studies, and architectural approaches to the city are understood as fields that bridge theory and practice, entangling societal processes with the production of built form. Research in the division combines critical, speculative, and futureoriented methods with historical, philosophical, and aesthetic perspectives, contributing both to academic knowledge and to wid er public and political debates.
Areas of focus include the politics of public space and democratic agency; sustainability and resilience through feminist and participatory practices; and spatial configurations as they relate to social, ecological, and economic systems. The division forms part of KTH’s broader ABE research environment and builds on a strong tradition of collaboration and debate, drawing from diverse architectural competencies to shape a shared and evolving research milieu.
The Division of Architecture, Technique and Theory is an experimental architectural research and education environment engaging spatial, social, ecological and sustainable matters. Operating at the intersection of technique– understood as the practices, processes, skills and material methods of architecture - and theory which offers frameworks for reflection on the processes and complexities of architecture. Its practices are situated within a broader ambition to integrate empirical, material experimentation and theoretical discourse, thereby fostering new approaches to architectural thinking and making.
The research and education topics include architectural design, architectural technology, architectural representation, architectural sustainability, and related architectural theories. Research practices combine different methodologies and approaches, including
architectural theory and practice, artistic research, empirical studies and innovation. Activities span between research, teaching and practice, contributing to the following fields of research and development: design processes, critical theory, sustainability and re-use, digital methodologies and fabrication, architectural experimentation and media.
Division of Architecture, Technique and Theory is responsible for the 2nd year undergraduate architecture program and for the undergraduate courses of Architecture Technology and Architectural Representation. At masters’ level the division runs 5 architecture design studios and provides seminar and orientation courses.
At the Light and Design division, we shape the qualities of light and dark in space to support experience while carefully balan cing these effects with their impact on the environment.
Light and lighting, fundamental components in architecture, are essential for human perception and well-being, while they contribute to social, economic and environmental sustainability. In fact, the quality of light and darkness rhythms in architecture and the built environment – both daylight and artificial light – influences vision, perception and behavior and a wide range of physiological and psychological responses on humans and other species.
The programme brings together students of architecture, planning, civil engineering and natural and social sciences. You are equipped with theoretical knowledge and professional tools that position you as critical links, joining multiple perspectives i n sustainable planning and design processes relevant in Sweden and worldwide. Coursework includes substantial time spent in studios and on projects that train you in practical skills and give you a deep understanding of planning and design practice.
The programme offers three specialisations pursued through recommended course combinations, representing different professional competencies in sustainable urban planning and design. You can also broaden your knowledge by making your own combinations of courses. During the programme, students interact across the specialisations in courses and projects that foster a mutual exchange of knowledge and ideas.
25 YR.4/5
Anders Berensson, Karin Matz
Studio theme
Fabulous Future Factory immerses itself in ideas of a joyful sustainable future for us all - together. It is time to take the future back from individual self-improvement, dystopia, austerity and misery. Studio FFF is hungry for information on technology, politics and creating desire through good design. Architect is one of few professions with the ability to envision, visualize and propose radical change. Let's use that power to try to improve the world. We need to look critically at what futures are presented by architects through their projects. There is power in projection which is something to take advantage of. Can we change how others (and ourselves) see and think about today and tomorrow? Can a sustainable world, from a small reuse project to a high-tech mega project or redistribution of resources be that which makes people drool with desire? We shall find out!
Studio methodology
Taking on the mission of taking back the future, we will need architects with agency who are curious, brave, humble, confident, independent and not the least great designers... how can we assist you in this? Challenge accepted! You will solve urgent societal questions, need to try out a multitude of architectural tools and processes, try both being the best and the worst student in the class, work very hands-on in a direct way, and more than before independently locate material, project ideas and people to talk to. All this and more. In helping you become proactive agents, we must look at ourselves not as teachers but perhaps more as sports coaches. If you are up for daring, being curious and open minded while working hard on our fabulous future we would love to create it with you.
• Investigating new aesthetics in search for a new Fabulousness
• Developing a full-scale project and building it; through this attaining an understanding of design as something built and the architect’s responsibility in creating long-lasting structures in all its aspects connecting too many design disciplines –light, water, landscape etc.
• Investigating adaptive reuse through hands-on 1:1 experience
• Understanding your project from an international context and through comparison
• Developing design tools through 1 to 1 tests prototyping, and on-site designing scale
• Developing architectural and urban strategies in response to radical change with tools to envision and propose positive outcomes for real problems, (not just stating facts) shaping public opinion into something desirable for the future to follow.
• Analyze spatial, legal, and regulatory frameworks shaping the built environment
• Attaining communication tools like image making, AI and story telling
• Gaining practice in working independently like real architects
• Learning to make FABULOUS things!
P1 Fontana Di Värmland
Chunky Reuse, building 1:1, collaboration with a museum and the theme of a fabulous fountain is what the 2025/26 FFF year begins with. We will build a fountain and a water square around a new system of ponds and streams at Alma Löv in Värmland. From their homepage: “In 2025, Alma Löv Museum of Unexp. Art will be closed in order to launch a long-term project: Rethinking Place and Movement . The project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between various creative and academic fields, where architects, biologists, choreographers, researchers, writers and artists are working together to explore the place and movement patterns in the area.”
We will study famous fabulous fountains, learn about pumps, water, and light, scan blocket.se and other Värmland reuse sites to find large chunks which can be joined to other large chunks where the joint will be an important player in making a new fabulous. This to create Fontana Di Värmland. The projects will be full scale, hands on with longer stays at Alma Löv in Värmland.
You are expected to in Värmland on Alma Löv Monday to Friday Week 38, 42 & 43
P2 …and then they lived happily ever after After digging in mud and connecting pumps to water creating smoke and mirrors it is time to move indoors. In P2 we will focus on imagining a fictional (perhaps) future in Stockholm. You will have to challenge yourself by pushing your imagination to envisage fabulous scenarios. We will practice AI image work, storytelling and trying out ideas out of your comfort zones. You yourselves will develop and decide what scale you are looking at and working in, but it should result in a children’s/ (and adults) book with sagas from a future Stockholm – accompanied with images.
Love Di Marco, Carolina Nilsson Wikström
Studio Theme
Gambling can be traced back to the Palaeolithic era, but the casino – a diminutive of the Italian casa – traces its origins to the small garden pavilions and pleasure houses of Renaissance villas before evolving into spectacular, state-sanctioned gambling palaces that turned pleasure into public and private profit.
In 20th century Sweden, the spatial manifestations of state-run gambling – kiosks, agents and clubhouses – were at once sites of entertainment, collective ritual and financial transaction, where surplus was channelled into public coffers. This uneasy alliance culminated in the era of Casino Cosmopol , whose four venues exemplify the 21st century’s reduction of architecture into pure spectacle, with form fully in service of consumption. Now facing obsolescence as an ambiguous yet public infrastructure, the casino’s spatial ambivalence – pleasure framed by discipline – endures and resonates in today’s cultural institutions, as they turn to immersive scenographies and theatrics to capture and commodify human attention. Blockbuster exhibitions, gift shops and Instagram-friendly installations echo the mechanisms of the casino, while public museums and biennials serve simultaneously as both validators of value and drivers of speculation in the art market. In 2024, Casino Cosmopol in Malmö closed, followed by Stockholm in 2025, marking the end of state-owned casinos in Sweden. The city of Malmö wants a new museum in its place. Could histories of pleasure, spectacle and public gathering offer clues for this new use?
This year FUNDAMENTALS, in collaboration with Malmö Stad, explores how public infrastructures can be reprogrammed, using abandonment as a point of departure to imagine new spaces, institutions and rituals for collective life.
Studio Method
FUNDAMENTALS approaches architecture as a civic practice, positioning the architect as an active public agent. Through close reading, surveying, drawing, modelling, and imagemaking, students engage critically with spatial, social and cultural conditions. The studio is a collaborative environment, in which each individual proposal contributes to a shared enquiry through dialogue and mutual critique. With equal emphasis on rigorous thinking, precise and economical design and experimental representation, we conceive of architecture as a proactive instrument – capable of shaping policy rather than merely responding to it. Throughout the term, invited guests – architects, artists, politicians, planners and economists – challenge students to test their ideas across disciplinary boundaries in order to rethink architecture’s capacity to serve the public good.
• To produce project work of increasing sophistication, that explores relationships between historical, theoretical and practical design issues. Understand link between design work and professional practice by engaging with real clients.
• To develop methodologies for site research, surveying and working with existing buildings, understanding of the relationship between architecture and social, cultural, contextual, constructional and environmental issues.
• To apply and integrate aesthetic and technical skills with critical awareness and develop visual, verbal and written communication skills using maps, drawings, models, images, collages and photography.
Through historic research, drawing, surveying and map-making, we will explore building typologies related to leisure and pleasure and the social, cultural and architectural context of Malmö, building a shared archive of precedents and a detailed knowledge of the city. Critical ways of seeing and understanding culminates in the design of temporary structures – pavilions, extensions, additions or interventions – that test the feasibility of a future project.
Working together with the city of Malmö in anticipation of an international competition launching next year, we will produce designs and speculations for a new type of museum and cultural institution for Malmö that can house the collections currently in storage and resonate with the city. The project will be presented to representatives of Malmö Stad and Malmö Konstmuseum, with a public exhibition of the work planned for early 2026.
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Mikael Bergquist, Michela Barone Lumaga
Studio Theme
The focus of the studio is the critical and experimental study of domestic space, in an urban setting from apartment to collective living. The ambition is to investigate the conventions and codes of the home and its basic architectural elements - both programmatic and tectonic. The studio will examine what is the most familiar and yet difficult kind of architecture: the house. We will explore its potential as a contemporary model of living. The aim of this studio will be to reappraise the spatial, social and ecological contracts of the home. We shall explore alternative living models that go beyond dichotomies such as husband and wife, living and work, private and public, house and garden.
Through the study of everyday elements and fundamental domestic programs such as cooking, working, bathing, resting, reading, gardening and playing, we will search for new domestic thresholds that can provide a space for both tradition and innovation.
Based in Stockholm, the studio will work on a infill project in the central city. We shall test the house within a site-specific context that is ordinary rather than exceptional. The aims are social, spatial and natural. Through modest means we will look at how architectural reinvention can turn the house into a regenerative social and environmental type, set somewhere between archetype and prototype.
During the semester we will build a common archive. We will encourage iterative design, model-making and explorative modes of representation. Each project is expected to be rigorous in research and design, and realistically grounded within its context.
• Gain a critical perspective on housing design and apartment layouts through literature studies, seminars, and lectures
• Investigate new forms of living—both contemporary and experimental models from the past.
• Moving beyond the traditional concept of the nuclear family, we will design buildings that foster collectivity in various ways within the context of Stockholm.
• Encouraging independent thinking, we will experiment with architecture, developing a unique position in terms of program and composition.
Project 1
Archive - We will work with references and build an archive of models, drawings, texts, articles, and books. We use different tools of representation and working methods.
Concept - We will speculate on what the contemporary dwelling can be today. We will make architectural projects based in part on the findings in Archive. We will work on different scales: from the communal area with streets and gardens, to the single unit, and down to parts of the unit.
Project 2
Revision - We will look at our concepts and develop them further from different angels. We work with the interior, movement, private - shared - communal. How the building relates to the topography and ecology of the site.
Presentatio n - We make coherent presentations of the projects from the overall to the detail. We work with precision of representation in models, drawings, text and images to present the full potential of our projects.
Studio Theme
Stockholm is a city of islands. A unique material and urban condition where the geological, natural and cultural meet in unexpected ways. The island as a category variously implies isolation, refuge, a certain autonomy. The island is a world unto itself. We are interested in the specificity of this condition. Each term the studio works with an island within the Stockholm region, defined either geographically or urbanistically. A detailed survey of the existing situation becomes key in starting to define a possible new architecture. We encourage a territorial understanding of the architectural project that engages with an increasingly circular material economy of reuse and regeneration.
Studio Method
We will work collectively and individually to make an architecture rooted in observation rather than invention. By learning from what already exists – materially, urbanistically as well as culturally – and by engaging with construction and making we will aim for an economical architecture full of character and optimism. Work will be structured in a non-linear way where research, proposition, strategy and detail are considered non-hierarchically. We aim to create an open and informal environment within the studio that enables cooperation, a collective exchange of ideas and a shared body of knowledge.
Nämdö is an island within the outer Stockholm archipelago. A striking natural environment with a fragile ecology, and a cultural landscape with a long history of fishing, farming and maritime trade. A small community of around 80 permanent residents occupy Nämdö and its surrounding islands. A number that increases to more than 1600 during the summer months with tens of thousands more visiting as tourists. The Nämdö archipelago has just been designated Sweden’s first marine national park. This will likely increase the amount of tourism in the area further – an economic opportunity that may come at the cost of environmental strain.
We will use P1 to untangle the various forces at play and to start to create a picture of what a sustainable future for Nämdö might look like. We will also start to define an architecture of limited resources, economy of means and seasonal change. We will conclude P1 with a short design project for a small structure.
Building on our observations from P1 we will, during the second part of the semester, develop medium scale architectural proposals on Nämdö that programmatically support both the local community and the requirements of the new national park. Projects will be developed though a series of short design exercises that each focus on developing specific aspect of your project.
Eva Arnqvist, Bojan Boric, Janek Ozmin
Studio Theme
Following over twenty-five years of market-driven development, this studio engages with sites of contemporary urban crisis — including slumlord-controlled housing, collapsed industrial economies, and ecological breakdown. Working within a Nordic context but drawing from international examples, we examine how architecture, landscape, and the city are shaped by regulatory frameworks such as detailed development plans, building codes, and land use policies — and confront their limits in addressing today’s urgent social, economic, and environmental conditions. Students are invited to challenge existing systems, expose spatial injustices, and propose new models of governance through spatial intervention. The studio positions architecture as a critical and imaginative practice — one that can reshape the collective management of land, resources, and public life. Through speculative design and grounded analysis, we explore how architecture might act within — and against — structures of power.
Through the lens of architecture, landscape, and the city, we explore how spatial reorganisation might enable new forms of stewardship, participation, and care beyond both stateled planning and dominant real estate interests. Students will critically engage with existing systems while proposing alternative approaches to regulating and imagining urban space. The studio foregrounds architecture as a cultural, political, and spatial practice capable of rewriting the rules of the game.
Studio Method
This studio adopts a practice-based research approach, combining site-specific enquiry, speculative design, and critical reflection. Students engage with historical and contemporary forms of governance — from formal state planning and legal codes to informal, community-led systems of spatial organisation.
Teaching formats include tutorials, fieldwork, collaborative seminars, and design workshops. Students conduct material inventories (tracing resources, infrastructures, land ownership, and building stock) and social inventories (mapping institutional actors, everyday practices, and regulatory conditions) as part of a wider toolkit that includes mapping, modelling, scenariobuilding, and spatial analysis.
Working iteratively, students explore how architecture can respond to challenges such as resource scarcity, climate shifts, spatial inequality, and population pressure. The studio collaborates with external partners — including municipal agencies, civil society organisations, infrastructure authorities, and tenants’ or user associations — to anchor design proposals within real-world governance contexts. Design is treated not only as an outcome, but as a mode of inquiry through which to
interrogate and reimagine how the architectural encounter and urban space is negotiated, distributed, and transformed over time.
• Develop multi-modal analytical methodologies based on ethnographic, forensic and material methods.
• Propose critical spatial and material interventions grounded in social, ecological, and political contexts
• Analyse spatial, legal, and regulatory frameworks shaping the built environment and work critically with planning documents, land use codes, and institutional policies as design material
• Develop architectural and urban strategies in response to complex governance challenges
• Explore alternative models of land stewardship, resource management, and spatial agency
• Through design and proposition, reflect on architecture’s role in shaping equitable and resilient futures
Holmen 1 in Vårberg is currently the subject of a court case, with its landlord facing forced administration after years of neglect. Students investigate the breakdown of governance, law, and spatial responsibility—moving from legal frameworks to the building itself. Treated as a witness, Vårberg and Holmen 1 are surveyed through mapping, modelling, and interviews. Using the bureaucratic, representational (surveys, diagrams, drawings, model, photographs) and investigative tools of the architect, findings are assembled into a series of critical “reports.” These reports will be designed to operate within the logic of the system.
Following the forced management case at Holmen 1, students develop individual or paired design proposals. Architecture is used to test how repair, stewardship, and public responsibility might emerge when market logics are suspended. Proposals may take the form of new building codes, material interventions, architectural strategies, or urban transformations. Students are encouraged to operate across a range of scales—from 1:5 to 1:5000—combining intimate material experimentation with large-scale urban thinking. Each project is expected to articulate a position within the city, engaging directly with its spatial, social, and political structures to propose new modes of civic responsibility and care. Work culminates in a public “dioramic room” combining survey models, drawings, architectural propositions, videos, and documents to stage architecture as counter-governance infrastructure — spatial strategies for recovery, participation, and reorganization.
Studio theme
Agricultural transformations and the farm in the 21st century
SHIFTS is an architectural research and design studio that mixes territorial-scale research with speculative design proposals in order to map the soon-to-be-present future.
For the fall semester, we will focus on the farm as an architectural, social, and territorial typology. From cloister to compound, from countercultural commune to kolkhoz, from collections of simple huts to vast landscapes of bio-industrial production facilities, from field to camp, the farm is a site for transspecies domesticities that blur the line between work and leisure, nature and culture, and consumption and production. It is a vehicle for anarchist dropouts, utopian socialists, feminists, capitalists, nationalists, and settler-colonial violence. Complex and contested, the farm is persistent in its ability to feed us (potentially all of us)—an ability that is intrinsically linked to the material and biological composition of the land it occupies, which is managed through the technologies of property, ownership, and land rights.
Looking specifically to the rich farmlands of Skåne at the southernmost edge of Sweden, we will explore the farm as a site for speculations on what it means to live and work together as we shift from the petro-capital modernity of the 20th century into the emerging paradigms of the 21st century.
The studio rests on an understanding of architectural projects and sites as always situated and enmeshed in larger systems of relations and dependencies stretching across, and potentially beyond, landscapes and territories. Systems that are layered, complex, and multifaceted, entangling form and politics, matter and meaning, human and beyond-human life, nature and culture. The studio’s work is research driven, meaning each semester starts with a research and methodology phase where students explore the theme of the studio in relation to a specific site, territory, type, or phenomena, and map out topics and research methods specifically for their projects. These tools are then deployed in order to construct assemblies of information that can act as operative cartographies: Maps and inventories that both indexes existing situations and propose new relations, use, and operations on the landscape.
The cartographies form the starting point for the second phase of the semester which is design driven and results in a typologically specific and architecturally refined proposal for a designed site/form/environment for life.
The studio is taught in collaboration with the Urban Ecologies course in the Sustainable Urban Planning and Design masters program and features transdisciplinary sharing of work and knowledge between the students of the SUPD and Architecture programs.
• Strong ability to individually, research, map, and define the themes, sites, and programs framing your project.
• Confidence in design research methodology and in turning critical thought into articulate design proposals.
• Trans-scalar design capabilities integrating territorial, architectural, and detail scale aspects of projects into coherent whole.
• Ability to present and communicate work using cartographic, diagramming, design drawing, image, and model making techniques.
The first project of the semester distributes students across an east-west vector spanning the farmlands of southern Skåne, in the very south of Sweden. Tracing the cultural, technological, and ecological systems that intersect with the landscape and the built edifices resting on top, we will search for sites of transformations, points of rupture, and signs of shifts. The work results in a cartography that both documents a territory and sets out the conditions for an architectural project.
The second project of the semester turns the trajectory set out in the first project into fully developed, designed, and articulated architectural proposals. Building on the rich history of the farm as a typology and reaching beyond the old binaries of the 20th century, we will explore what it means to live and work together, in the country, now and onwards.
Mats Fahlander, Tobias Nissen
Studio Theme
Architecture distinguishes itself from other art forms in that the discipline is affected to a higher degree by limitations which the architect cannot control: Besides the simple fact that a building cannot be realized without a client/investor there are social conventions, topographic, functional and technical factors we must take into account. One of the skills necessary to succeed as an architect is thus the ability to react to a given framework in a creative and intelligent manner. Instead of perceiving limitations as unwelcome obstacles we would like to welcome them as a kind of resistance which can release creative forces. The tasks we will work on are characterized by clearly defined contexts. By making the project briefs quite simple we want to free the students from time consuming analytical work and engage them instead to dive into the design process from the start, using the design process itself as an analytical tool.
Studio Method
The path leading up to an architectural project is most often more chaotic and less linear than one would like it to be from an academic point of view. At the same time every student is supposed to develop his/her own working method. Hence we do not consider It to be the teacher’s task to teach a working method. We would rather see ourselves as interlocutors confronting the students with insights resulting from our own experience and encourage them to make their own choices – in agreement with the teacher or by rebutting the teacher’s point of view. The starting point or the generating idea for a project can be highly personal and can in general not be judged as right or wrong. An idea is in that sense not discussable within the framework of architectural education. Our discussions will instead revolve around the process of translating an idea into architecture with the architect’s tools, i.e. sketches, models, horizontal and vertical projections.
The term begins with a theoretical introductory assignment that encourages fundamental reflections on the relationship between material, construction and architectural form. In three different fictional locations (a cliff face, a ravine, and a flat landscape), each student develops three projects for a building with a simple program. The three projects/locations are linked to three different building materials: wood, steel, and brick.
An exhibition hall for a 1960s aircraft at Arlanda Airport. Our client is the association Le Caravelle Club, a group of former SAS employes with a burning interest in aviation technology, who have taken on the task of preserving and renovating a Caravelle, one of the first jet-powered passenger planes, which was in use until 1998. The building is intended to function as a small aviation history museum, which, in addition to the aircraft itself, will also display other items related to the history of commercial aviation.
Studio Theme
For a couple of years, through hands-on interventions and fullscale building on site, we have been working with an abandoned building on Campus at Drottning Kristinas väg 67. This year we will take a step back and look at the building as a whole. You will suggest an alternative future use for the building instead of it being demolished. What kind of expressions are produced when the existing building and materials at hand become the starting point? In the near future architects will (hopefully) to a larger extent work with existing buildings and materials. Studio DKV will continue to try to understand what this can mean for architecture and the everyday work as an architect. Today adaptive reuse is discussed as a new way of producing architecture, but the reuse of materials and spaces is nothing new - the Romans for example reused parts of buildings when creating new ones in quite an unsentimental way. This creates new possibilities, patterns of matter out of place, and strips the existing of its current representational connotations. The joinery, the meeting of old and new and how things are put together, becomes the main interest rather than the parts themselves. An economy of effect.
Studio Method
Studio DKV will work as a lab where different approaches will be tested and evaluated - a bootcamp for the imagination and a testbed for new aesthetics. We will work with references and do study trips. Projects will vary in thematics and methods, but share one thing: adaptive re-use. We will explore what working with an existing building can do for the architectural project and process. During the semester we will also study and examine a number of terms and concepts through seminars and lectures. In the spirit of the Studio DKV - learning by doing - students will in groups create and hold small lectures for the studio.
• Learn to embrace the complex relationship between the existing and the addition.
• Demonstrate material re-use strategies in an existing building
• Create new aesthetics
• Develop architectural proposals through iterative design processes
Project 1
In project one you will study an existing building up-close, DKV 67. Through documentation, measuring, and readings you will come up with a suggestion of what this building could be. You will suggest/pick a new program and do an individual architectural proposal. At the beginning of the course we will do a study trip where we will visit inspirational reuse projects and meet with professionals that share our idè and wish for using the existing environments to create new possibilities.
In project two you will develop your proposals, create working drawings and images to convince stakeholders to not only save the building but also make a new functional future for the building and its site. A proposal to what might be. You will work individually or in pairs depending on the outcome from P1. Similar idea’s might be better of to combine. The final result will be a collective book of all you’re proposals aswell as the collective memory of the building. A statement and a gift to Akademiska Hus and the University leadership.
Erik Stenberg, Helena Westerlind
Studio Theme:
High Density, Low Carbon: resource efficient mass housing through reuse
The studio will explore the effects of resource efficiency through material and reuse strategies in mass housing design. While the separation of design tasks in the building process was historically considered essential for optimizing construction of mass housing, the shift toward material reuse (once again) calls for a more integrated design approach — one that challenges the divide between architecture and engineering. Through the theme of resource efficiency, the housing studio will therefore explore the architect – engineer divide and foster an empathetic attitude for the complementary roles of the architect and engineer in the design, production, and construction of mass housing. The studio will also study the living conditions of mass housing as a design driver by asking the central questions: For whom? and Why? In general, the studio proposes a process of designing mass housing as it relates to structural and material methods intimately tied with a cultural-historical perspective while critically engaging in today’s housing debates.
Studio Method:
Our ambition is to give students a thorough knowledge of the processes and mechanics of housing in order to upgrade and improve the architects’ role in current building production in the face of climate change. We also think that design through knowledge in material and architectural technology implicates the understanding of theories of tectonics and space. We will explore methods of representation, where drawings and models are primary working tools: as ways of exploring and explaining methods of design and, in particular, a position in regard to the adjustments, alterations, additions proposed. Each semester will include a phase of identifying and researching existing examples and topics as well as a design phase proposing new mass housing. Our teaching methodology proactively engages with contemporary practices by making extensive use of lectures and case studies.
Competencies:
• Housing Design (architect–engineer-divide and living conditions)
• Sustainability (circularity and resource efficiency)
• Materials (buildings, components, production, and flows)
Project 01:
“Taking issue with the idea of a single, overarching metanarrative, [Miles Glendinning in the book Mass Housing (2021)] argues that modernist mass housing, far from a monochromatic desert of uniformity, was a global landscape of riotously colourful variety and complexity…”
P1 Mapping Mass Housing (as a resource) To address the surplus of modernist mass housing in some Swedish municipalities and the urgent need to reduce the environmental impact of demolition, the project will investigate and map buildings that are deemed obsolete. Group and archival work will predominantly be used to find, analyze, and digitalize existing housing areas. The original typology, production and construction of the housing will be studied in order to propose new deconstruction processes at three scales: structure, elements and materials. The group mappings will be collected into a studio publication.
Project 02:
P2 Moving Mass Housing (as a solution) To address the demand for new mass housing and the urgent need to reduce the environmental impact of construction, the project shifts the focus to designing new mass housing (and in some casestypologies) with reuse in Swedish municipalities with a housing shortage. The buildings identified in P1 will serve as resources (donor buildings) for individual mass housing design projects with a focus on reuse, system/construction, proposed living conditions, and material-spatial composition.
“Hus på väg… – av miljöskäl” (Buildings on the move… – for environmental reasons). Video still, Gunnar Sundbaum 1998
Sogol Baghban, Ulrika Karlsson
Studio Theme
Northern Grounds will continue its focus on architecture, drawing, recording and imaging, looking towards the North – the larger area in northern Scandinavia, also called Sapmi, of diverse cultures, ecologies, histories and agencies. These northern grounds, shaped by both modern and colonial histories, continue to face infrastructural and climatic changes. The area holds a long tradition of indigenous land use, resource extraction and processing. The right to the use of land and water is a heated and greatly debated question.
In a time of ecological urgency and resource scarcity the architectural discipline is increasingly turning toward the existing. Yet engaging with existing environments demands more than technical strategies of reuse or preservation, it requires a methodological and pedagogical shift. Northern Grounds examines the potential of architectural pedagogy to engage sensibly, situated, critically and reflective with the social, material, and temporal complexities of the existing built environments.
Studio Method
With a focus on research through making, the studio has an interest in the role of representation in architecture. This interest is inserted within contemporary approaches emphasising the entanglements of the physical with the virtual and ways of inhabiting, and their effects on how we imagine, understand, and make architecture. We encourage a curious, critical and experimental approach to physical model making, drawing and the use of machinic processes in design work - such as LiDAR scanning, photogrammetry, moving image, AI and digital fabrication. Through collaborative and individual design investigations coupled with archival research and ethnographic methods, the studio aims to propose multiple ways of engaging with places, structures and material realities, specified through architectural questions. Throughout the semester, 5th-year students will receive ongoing support alongside their studio project to prepare their thesis booklet and plan their diploma project. The studio includes lectures with invited guests and local established networks, recurring pin-ups, seminars and discussions to support students to contextualise their work and engage in contemporary architectural discourse.
Studio Competencies:
• Contextually grounded architectural research: through archival and on-site studies.
• Critical and reflective engagement with the existing: through sensitive methodologies.
• Research through making: combining physical model making, drawing, and experimental fabrication techniques (including
LiDAR scanning, photogrammetry, AI and digital fabrication) as core investigative tools.
• Advanced Architectural representation: examining how hybrid representational methods influence architectural imagination, understanding, and design processes.
Project 1: Inside/Out: Recording sensibilities
This semester, Northern Grounds will take a closer look at the town of Arjeplog (Árjepluovve). A critical geopolitical location situated in Sapmi and Norrbotten County. Approaching Arjeplog inside/out, the studio will explore its history, architecture, and cultural ecologies transformed by practices of extraction and displacement, with a specific focus on the relationship between the lived interior and its architectural elevation.
Challenging traditional views of architectural drawing and imaging as objective reflections of reality, the studio will on site explore how techniques for engaging with, drawing, recording, and sensing can make visible entangled relations and multiple aspects of place, understanding the town and its architecture as material structures but also as the lived-in reality informed by stories of the everyday.
The architectural focus will be to explore compositional, spatial, and structural qualities of inside/out, linking landscape, buildings and people. The outcome of project 1 will be highly detailed physical models together with a series of images, drawings, and architectural questions to be furthered through the design of a residential building in Arjeplog in project 2.
Project 2: Inside/Out: reimagined reassemblies
The second part of the semester will focus on architecturally detailing our studies and questions regarding Arjeplogs past, present, and future through a residential building in Arjeplog. Highly detailed physical models of architectural reimagined reassemblies will be coupled with a series of images, moving images and drawings (sensitively drawn, generated, informed, and curated).
Thordis Arrhenius, Daniel Lindberg
Studio Theme
The Re-Master studio at KTH addresses notions of change, permanence, and resilience through restoration, reuse, and repair. The overall methodological and pedagogical strategy explores the already present, the already built, the already thought and imagined.
A central effect of global capitalism is the pressure of change. Urban patterns and building programs are increasingly becoming redundant, demanding change to accommodate new economies, functions, and identities. In the urgent context of climate change, contemporary architectural culture needs to respond to these strong forces of change with new strategies and stocktaking. Remaster studio aims to probe this new condition for architecture and architectural practice, exploring new strategies and architectural thinking influenced by, as well as challenging, the practice of preservation as we know it today.
In the post-war era, Sweden underwent a massive and impressive modernization of society that involved extensive building programs and large investment in public buildings such as libraries, schools, hospitals, sports and cultural buildings, as well as commercial offices and retail buildings. As a result of this intensive building activity traditional city cores across Sweden were rescaled and transformed in the 1960s primarily through extensive demolition and monumental rebuilding. Today many of these city cores with their heroic large scale building structures are under pressure to change and demolition is yet again on the agenda. An urgent issue is how this modern architectural urban heritage from the late 1960 and 1970 is considered and valued. The 20th-century notion of a shared national heritage under the state's and civic society's protection, expressed in national preservation law and praxis, is today contested and under negotiation. The studio will take this question as a starting point to explore the legacy of modern architecture in Sweden with the example of a city core built in the period of the 1970s that is undergoing radical change.
Working with the already built requires new forms of thinking and doing architecture. Surveying and analysing the remains of the previously built before an architectural intervention takes place is a central methodological challenge when working in the field of reuse, restoration and repair. Exploring documentary as well as oral and material histories the studio works in collaboration with different architectural archives paying close attention to a
building biography and afterlife. In that work the studio pays specific attention to the architectural representation. In the field of preservation, drawing tends to become primarily a tool of survey and analysis rather than one of projection and forecast. Crucial for the work in the studio is to reflect, test, and, most importantly, advance architectural representational tools and technologies—to become aware of the function of the drawing, the model and the image in architectural production. In the studio, we work intensively with the scale model, the drawing, and the image to argue for our architectural proposals. See previous studio publications for more information about the studio’s work. www.remasterstudio.com
• provide an orientation in contemporary preservation discourses
• research archives of collection
• advance architecture competences in designing with the already built
• explore the tools of architectural representations
Focusing on the notion of the public, you will identify, document, and survey a building under pressure to change and transform due to outdated performance. In this first part, we will collaborate with different archives collecting architecture, such as the drawing archive of ArkDes and other building archives. This part will result in an in-depth analysis and survey of a public building using the representational tools of architecture: model, drawing, and image.
You will make an informed yet speculative proposal for repairing, altering, or adapting a public building that has served the public good. After identifying the building's architectural qualities and values, you will propose how those qualities and values can be restored, new ones added, and existing ones reinforced and enhanced. This second part will result in a full architectural proposal drawn from an urban scale to detail.
Orientation Courses
25/26 YR.4/5
Jonas Runberger, Markus Aerni
Theme
The Architectural Technology Re-Orientation course will this year explore the role of different aspects of Architectural Technology as an enhancer for the understanding, conceptualisation, design, construction and performance of built architecture. Architectural Technology is here understood as various technologies considered from an architectural standpoint and in a broad perspective, while specifically pinpointing how technology is used in response to aspects such as climate, site, identity, construction, and as an asset in the design process. The course marks the start of the final two years of architectural studies. It provides the opportunity to approach Architectural Technology with fresh eyes, in order to re-assess individual interests and priorities. In this sense, the course will also provide students with the opportunity to individually reflect in order to form an agenda and roadmap for how Architectural Technology can play a role in their remaining studies and forthcoming practice.
The first phase will introduce an alternate overview over the Architectural Technology subject and its constituents, combining traditional and state-of-the art aspects. Key topics will be presented in a series of presentations, followed by guest lecturers where architectural practitioners discuss the role of architectural technology through projects from their practice. Students will work in teams, researching and documenting architectural references in response to four criteria: Setting, Structure, Climate and Process. The documentation should primarily be based on researched sources, but gaps in information will require informed speculative solutions. Each team will provide four collective panels following the criteria, as well as one physical model.
Students will then individually develop a speculative proposal for a transformation of the reference building in a 25-year perspective (2050). This should be based on a short statement on an extrapolated future scenario that may entail changed conditions in terms of local climate and changed programmatic needs, while considering a potential new use of the building. Needed alterations to the building should be documented in a conceptual way, by annotating or collaging the representations developed in the collaborative work. The work will be documented following a provided template, and presented in a collective exhibition, where invited guests will comment on the work. The first phase is concluded by an international guest lecture addressing the intersection of vernacular and innovative forms of architecture and structure. The collected research of the course will be assembled into a booklet shared with all students.
The second phase will provide students with the opportunity to reflect on the collective work and presentations, conduct a self-assessment, and in extension define an individual tentative roadmap for how they can enhance their knowledge and competences in Architectural Technology through their final two years of studies. The collective work of all teams will be used as sources to identify personal interests and potential
Upcoming Spring 26 YR.4/5
Elena Carlini, Francesca Savio
Studio Theme
This spring, Studio Urban Waterlines joins BLUEPORT – Blue Urbanism in European Port Cities and Operational Resilient Territories , an ambitious collaboration between KTH School of Architecture , Aalto Photography in Helsinki, and UPCETSAV in Barcelona. Our shared case study is the Port of Rotterdam: Europe’s largest harbor and a dynamic arena where global trade, industrial heritage, climate risk, and urban life intersect.
In this studio, architecture is not only about drawing beautiful buildings, it’s about mastering complex systems, understanding how cities operate, and shaping spaces that are resilient, regenerative, and future-ready. Students will think like systems designers, exploring life at sea and in ports, the spatial realities of shipping and logistics, and the lived experiences of seafarers. From these insights, we will imagine new waterfront futures where production, community, and ecology thrive together.
Studio Method
The studio is embedded in an international, multidisciplinary network. Students will learn from Aalto photographers, whose image-making uncovers the sensory and social textures of port landscapes, and from UPC environmental designers, who bring deep expertise on climate risks and ecological resilience. This cross-pollination of perspectives is central to developing skills architects need. We combine virtual seminars, shared digital platforms, and on-site fieldwork to the work we do in groups at KTH. A highlight will be our joint study trip, ideally by cargo boat, or alternatively by train (partly funded by BLUEPORT) to Rotterdam, where we will meet partner schools, visit port facilities, and speak directly with local experts, workers, and communities.
Our approach is collaborative, investigative, and future-oriented, embedding ourselves in real contexts to generate nuanced, site-specific proposals. We integrate future literacy to equip students with tools for navigating uncertainty, while fostering optimism and creativity in tackling real-world challenges. This studio prepares students for independent diploma projects and for developing a responsible, imaginative design practice.
• Understand elements of urban design and draw a masterplan at large scale that is visually clear, appealing, and contains the right amount of information;
• Integrate systems thinking to holistically research, analyse, and interpret complex maritime territories, translating insights into architectural proposals;
• Collaborate across disciplines , integrating and applying knowledge from photography, environmental science, and other fields into architectural design;
• Apply multi-sensory documentation methods to capture, interpret, and communicate spatial and experiential qualities of a site;
• Discuss concepts such as: climate resilience, urban nature, ecological urbanism, and blue-green infrastructure;
• Generate speculative and regenerative visions that are creative, future-proof, and grounded in site realities;
• Critically evaluate the ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities of architects and urban designers in port and coastal contexts;
• Communicate complex ideas through advanced visual, spatial, and narrative storytelling.
Rebecca Rubin, Eva Arnqvist, Jaime Montes, Maria Ärlemo
Image from Kärrtorp, project places for girls, White Arkitekter in collaboration with Skarpnäcksungdomsråd och Ungatur.
Studio Theme
Current dominance of large-scale, centralized urban planning, negligent use of materials and local social structures has contributed to an inequitable urban development. This demands for a more equitable, resource-efficient and nuanced design and planning approach. The studio project will be located in Hagsätra/Rågsved, where the ongoing urban planning process has an explicit aim of furthering social sustainability. You will be digging deep, combining top-down structural analyses with exploring bottom- up local societal knowledge, following local organizations, for example, an agroforestry or a sports association, interviewing and mapping.
The studio will provide you with an opportunity to develop your own views and productive uses of "equity” in architectural and urban design practice. And your design intervention will reflect on how architecture and built environment can contribute to increase urban equity.
Studio Methods
To advocate and design for equity identifying and understanding hidden perspectives is crucial. Hence you will use the duality of ethnographic and architectural analyses. Through an ethnographic approach, participatory observation and qualitative interviews, you will explore contemporary civil society in Hagsätra and Rågsved. A statistical desktop analysis will address structural issues, such as the distribution of health conditions, ownership, service inequalities and municipal
processes. You will represent and communicate the insights produced by use of different visual formats. The course emphasis will be placed on narration and visual communication as a performative practice. We will work on site and of site in tutorials, seminars, peer reviews and pin-ups, to broaden perspectives we will go on a study trip to southern Sweden and collaborate with SUPD.
• Explore local context by use of artistic research methods and mapping practices
• Conduct field work, do qualitative interviews and participant observation
• Read literature and discuss at student led seminars
• Analyze, visualize and communicate empirical material
• Develop a context specific project formulation
• Engage with and offer feedback on each other’s work at peer review sessions
• Develop a stance towards what you think a ‘equitable architectural‘ or urban design intervention could be
• Engage in constructive dialogue on your work with peers, tutors, representatives for the City Planning Office and the local community
Stefan Petersson, Eva Arnqvist
Welcome to Norm-Critical Perspectives on Site Analysis and Representation! This course invites you to explore how architects can engage citizens in understanding and shaping their built environment, whilst also critically reflecting on their own norms, biases, and positions. Together, we will develop tools and methods that value diverse perspectives, question assumptions, and foster inclusive design processes that amplify underrepresented voices.
As an architect, you have the opportunity to work pedagogically with your skills, facilitating dialogue and interaction with stakeholders through your design processes. This is not primarily about educating stakeholders, but about offering them the tools to express their experiences and understand their living environment. Acting as an architectural pedagogue means raising awareness among citizens about the built environment, architecture, urbanism, and sustainable development. By enhancing their knowledge in these fields, you empower people to make their voices heard and influence the political, economic, and social strategies that shape their cities and surroundings.
All pedagogical experiences are reciprocal, allowing you, as
This individual assignment will give you an opportunity to summarise and reflect on a selection of particular positions and perspectives which you have chosen during your first group meeting.
The task is to write a short reflective text based on your site in the form of a fictional dialogue that presents non-normative perspectives.
You are encouraged to upload drafts and thoughts developed during the writing of the text to the group blog page.
During your site visit planned with your group you will make an individual recording of your site using Placetoplan a Swedish digital platform used to capture public opinion through dialogue in order to access the publics attitudes to existing urban conditions and proposed urban development projects. At the end of the site visit you should have a Placetoplan record from each group member.
Project 03
Your group will maintain a blog through the course that records your ongoing work as a dynamic platform for experimentation. Consider it a workspace where your ideas, notes, and reflections can be shared in real time. Portions of this blog can later be refined and incorporated into your final group assignment.
You have been commissioned as a norm-critical editorial team—comprising writers, photographers, norm-critical design practitioners, graphic designers, and publishers—to create a twosided, foldable A2 poster. This poster should critically reflect on a specific site through a curated selection of imagery, text and narrative elements.
Audience Specification:
When creating your poster, identify a target reading group and audience based on your site experiences and collective dialogue.
For example youth or child perspectives or identities and user groups drawn from your studies and dialogues. These examples should be grounded in reflection of the site, available metadata and the readings through the course.
Objectives:
Convey the complexities, social, material and physical inherent at the chosen site from different perspectives voices, actions, behaviours and practices of the inhabitants through a normcritical lens.
You are free to incorporate both factual and fictional narratives or positions to deepen understanding and interpretation.
You must present a range of voices—interview quotes, individual text assignments, diary reflections recorded on the group blog, and manuscript excerpts—that prompt a critical engagement with the site. These elements have been produced continuously during the course.
Markus Aerni
With an extensive international working experience in artistic and detail design development of exhibition, museum design and refurb as background, Markus co-runs HAPPYSPACE and teaches since 2001 with a focus on design through technology and eco-tectonic thinking. Markus has been Associate Professor on artistic grounds för Architecture and Sustainable Design at KTH and Umeå University.
Maria Ärlemo
Maria is an Architect MSA, PhD
Candidate and Adjunct Lecturer in Sustainable Planning at KTH School of Architecture. Her research explores contemporary discourse on urban justice and discusses the potential for critically engaged architectural practices in search for greater social justice.
Eva Arnqvist
EA is a visual artist and educator with a background in political science and extensive experience in critical, practicebased urban research and DIY art projects. Since 2021 she is working with an artistic research project in designed living environments at the KTH School of Architecture, where she also teaches.
Thordis Arrhenius
TA is a professor in Architecture, Theory, and Method at the KTH School of Architecture. Educated at KTH, the Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, and the Architectural Association London, she has lectured and published internationally on critical issues in heritage and urbanism. Publications include Architecture and Welfare, Scandinavian Perspectives (Birkhauser, 2025)
Jamie Montes Bentura
JM is PhD candidate at ETSAM Madrid, and an Adjunct Lecturer at KTH School of Architecture. Architect with a master's in Sustainable Urban Planning and Design, working across architecture, construction and urbanism. Experienced in participatory processes and integration of sustainability, with research on urban form and complexity.
Sogol Baghban
Sogol Baghban is an architect educated at KTH in Stockholm and ETH in Zürich. She has worked as an architect in Switzerland and in Stockholm at General Architecture. She is currently running her own practice where she is interested in topics of reuse and the life of the built fabric.
Anders Berensson
Anders Berensson is the founder and director of the architect studio
Anders Berensson Architects with an internationally published portfolio of work. AB has previously worked at OMA, co-founded visionsdivision and has been
part of architectural collective Svensk Standard. AB is a lecturer at KTH School of Architecture and is currently running master studio “Fabulous Future Factory” and has previously run master studio “Out of Practice” & “Full Scale Studio”. AB is an architect educated at CTH and KTH.
MB is an architect and writer, educated at KTH and the Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. MB runs his own office in Stockholm. MB has written and curated numerous exhibitions and books. The book ”Center and Periphery” (Park Books, 2025) collects some of MBs small wooden houses.
Received a Bachelor Degree in Architecture at Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Cooper Union, New York in 1993 and in 1999 a Master’s Degree in Architecture and Urban Design at the GSAP Columbia University, New York. Since 1993, he has been a practicing architect in New York State working on a wide range of projects from interiors to housing, public buildings and urban design projects throughout the New York City metropolitan area, Scandinavia and China. Since 2003, Bojan lives and works in Stockholm. In addition, throughout his career, Bojan has been involved in several international exhibitions, collaborative projects and has organised conferences and workshops with focus on ontemporary architecture and urbanism. Today, Bojan teaches at the School of Architecture in Stockholm at bachelor and master level studio courses with focus on architecture and urban design. His doctorate dissertation titled “The Ghost Boulevard” explores how the never realized urban plans from the past still haunt cities.
Adrià Carbonell is an architect, urbanist, and educator. He is a lecturer in Architecture and a PhD candidate in Applied Urban Design at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He is co-founder of the research collaborative Aside, where he combines scholarly work with practice-based research, focusing on the interplay between architecture, territory, politics and the environment. Adri à is co-editor of the anthology Infrastructural Love: Caring for Our Architectural Support Systems (Birkh ä user, 2022). His writings have been widely published in magazines, academic journals and book anthologies (The Journal of Architecture Education, San Rocco, ACE–Architecture, City and Environment, ZARCH, Cartha, MONU, Plan, among others).
Elena Carlini
EC has an MA from IUAV Venice and Columbia University NY, which she attended as a Fulbright Scholar. She has worked with Emilio Ambasz, Richard
Meier in the USA and Studio Valle architetti in Italy; she runs an independent architecture practice and has taught at both Syracuse University and Ferrara University.
Mats Fahlander
Mats Fahlander studied architecture at KTH and HDK in Berlin. His office, Fahlander Arkitekter, https:// matsfahlander.com/ , is located in Stockholm. Besides his architectural practice he has been working as a teacher in different terms at KKH and KTH.
Per Franson
PF is an architect and educator. Per has been teaching in numerous courses on all levels within the School of Architecture. 25 years of running his own practice he has great experience of the profession and is keen on bringing practice, education and research closer togheter.
Ulrika Karlsson
Ulrika Karlsson is an architect and landscape architect, founding partner of the architecture practice Brrum as well as of servo stockholm. She is a Professor in Architecture at the KTH School of Architecture, where she has taught for over 20 years. She recently served as a Guest Professor at Städelschule, Frankfurt and at Tokyo University. At KTH she is engaged in artistic research within the field of architecture.
Konrad is a lecturer at KTH Architecture since 2015. He is also founding partner at the architecture practice Krupinski/ Krupinska. He has prior experience from OMA in New York and SANAA in Tokyo as well as Tham & Videgård and Wingårdhs in Stockholm.
Daniel teaches at KTH School of Architecture. Educated at Chalmers and Oslo School of Architecture and Design, he brings experience from several offices and his own practice. His work focuses on transformation — rethinking and renewing existing buildings and urban spaces. He has also contributed to research projects like Att Återbruka det "fula”, exploring creative reuse of overlooked structures.
Alejandra Navarrete Llopis is an architect, researcher, and educator, and currently a lecturer and PhD candidate in Architectural History, Theory, and Critical Studies at the School of Architecture, KTH. Her investigation “Swedish Environmentalisms” focuses on how alternative architectural responses to environmental concerns have been scaled up by Swedish municipalities, companies, and research councils (1970s-1990s). She was co-curator of
the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016 “After Belonging” and is co-editor of the book After Belonging: The Objects, Spaces and Territories of the Ways We Stay in Transit (2016). She also has extensive experience in teaching seminars and design studios at KTH, Columbia University GSAPP, Pratt Institute, and ETSAM Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, among other academic institutions.
MBL is a partner at ALTA Architecture in Stockholm. Everyday poetics and materiality are among the core preoccupations of the firm, with a focus on how resources and building practices can support a more ecological built environment. She holds master’s degrees in Architecture and Urban planning from Politecnico di Milano and MIT in Cambridge.
Love Di Marco
LDM is an architect, educated at KTH and The Architectural Association with his own office in Stockholm. He has led and contributed to a wide range of projects in Sweden, Belgium and the UK for 51N4E, Mooradian Studio and Jägnefält Milton and taught at the AA.
Karin Matz
Karin Matz runs Karin Matz Arkitekt which has been widely published internationally. She has worked at Vera Arkitekter, cofounded SECRETARY architecture and was part of the architectural collective Svensk Standard. She is a co-author of the book 14 495 Flats which was awarded the price “Guldrummet”. KM has studied Pedagogy for higher learning and is interested in learning processes in relation to architecture. KM studied architecture at Edinburgh College of Art, the University of Queensland, and KTH (MSc. Arch). KM is a lecturer at KTH with a long experience in teaching Seminar courses, Bachelor and Master studios, previously running the studios “Megaprojects”, “Headquarters” “Public Service”, “Stockholm Mania” “Making” and “DKV 67”. This is the second year of studio FFF run by KM and AB.
Tobias Nissen
Tobias Nissen earned his master’s degree at the ETH Lausanne. He has been working on and off as a teacher in the undergraduate and graduate programs at KTH since 2000. Tobias Nissen is a cofounder of the Stockholm based office Vera Arkitekter, www.vera.se .
Martin Nässén
Martin is an architect based in Stockholm. He spent 10 years at 6a architects in London where he led projects both in the UK and internationally. Prior to this he worked at Herzog & de Meuron and Tony Fretton Architects. Martin has previously taught at London Metropolitan University.
Janek Ozmin
Janek Ozmin, PhD, is an architect,
artist, and researcher whose practice bridges academic research and hands-on experimentation. His work explores how everyday and domestic architectures shape cultural life through writing, installations, and photography. His practice-based thesis GO LO GO HI examined garages and penthouses across architecture, urban environments, film, and the arts. Janek has taught internationally in architecture and arts academies, teaches at KTH, and holds a guest lecture position at ZHdK Zurich University of the Arts. He has exhibited at ArkDes and the Royal Hibernian Academy and co-founded NAMAlab, recognized by the RIBA as a world-class initiative.
Stefan Petersson
Stefan Petersson, born 1973, architect SAR/MSA and lecturer at KTH School of Architecture. Director of Studies with responsibility for Lifelong Learning and Frestanding Courses. Also runs the consultancy firm spad. Main work concerns architecture, urban planning, social sustainability and architectural education projects. Started in 2008 at KTH in Tensta together with the head of the department at KTH School of Architecture. The aim of the activity was to change the group of applicants to higher education. Chairman of the Swedish Architects' Council for Architecture and Children (RAB). Teaches urban planning and urban planning technology in undergraduate studies as well as intersectional site analyses during the spring orientation course for year 4 and in-depth architectural candidate projects.
Rebecca Rubin
RR is an educator, architect & urban planner, internationally recognized for her work on equitable design. She previously served as MDA (Mayor’s Design Advocate) in London and head of 'WhiteResearchLab, Urban Planning Unit,' aswell as lead architect for equitable projects like 'Places for Girls' and Barnbo.
Jonas Runberger
Jonas is an architect, PhD and Associate Professor in Architectural Technology with 25 years of experience in architectural practice, teaching and research. He has taught at KTH, Chalmers, the ETHZ and the Architectural Association London, often at the intersection between Architectural Technologies and Digital Media, and he was the founder of the Dsearch development team at White Arkitekter (2010 – 2024).
Francesca Savio
FS is an architect and urban designer. She has worked in the field of participative urban planning in Italy and Spain, urban design in Sweden, and has taught at KTH urban planning and design since 2017. Her work revolves around sustainable practices for urban design, the circular economy, and future-proofing urban environments.
Rutger Sjögrim is an architect, educator and lecturer in Architecture at the School of Architecture, KTH. He is a director and co-founder of Stockholm-based architecture and research practice Secretary. A practice built on a shared interest in the capacity of architecture to facilitate a dignified life at the scale of the population, Secretary operates across shifting scales and diverse fields such as planning and urban design, building and interior design, exhibition design and curation, public art and academic research, with work exhibited at galleries, museums and biennials in Tokyo, Tbilisi, Shenzhen, Oslo, Melbourne, and across Sweden.
Erik is an architect, researcher, and Associate Professor in Architecture with over 20 years of teaching experience. He has a special affinity for mass housing from the Swedish Million Program Era and is currently pursuing architectural solutions to the contemporary Housing Question in the face of global climate change.
FS is an architect based in Stockholm. He has worked as a lecturer at KTH since 2016. He is one of the founding members in the collective Uglycute and participated in the Architecture Biennale (2003 and 2010) in Venice, and are represented in the collections of Moderna Museet.
Helena Westerlind is an architect, educator, and researcher in the Division of Architecture, Technology and Theory. Her work explores the materialisation of architecture, with a particular focus on how design and technology can enable more resource-efficient and sustainable transformations of material resources into built environments. Her current research investigates large-scale additive manufacturing and the reuse of building components. She holds a PhD in Architectural Technology from KTH and an MArch from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. Previously, she worked at Factum Arte in Madrid, a multidisciplinary studio dedicated to digital mediation in contemporary art and the preservation of cultural heritage.
CW has been teaching regularly at KTH School of Architecture since 2017. She is a founder of the architecture practice Asante Architecture & Design and is Secretary General at Europan Sweden, an international architecture and urban design competition.
Studio Catalogue
Fall 25 YR.4/5