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1. Edwin Östlund Stockman, Headquarters for a large corporation, year four project vt ‘20 2. Lisa Chen, Headquarters for a large corporation, year four project vt ‘20 3. Anders Johnsson, Movements and Space, diploma project vt ‘19 4. A worker cleaning the windows of an apartment block in Beijing's central business district. 5. BBC News studio 6. Erik Ahnborg and Sune Lindström, Radiohuset Stockholm 6.

Teachers: Mikael Bergquist, Thordis Arrhenius

CHANGE 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 functions, identities and economies. At an accelerating speed, dominated by the logic of obsolescence, the built becomes outdated and turned into waste. This in turn raises a new urgency for contemporary architectural Thep project is the development of an individual project based on the

culture to start addressing the pressure of change in alternative modes.

PRESERVATION With the fundamental shift in our contemporary understanding of spatial and material resources, the architect is no longer primarily occupied with making the new from scratch, but with making the new project should be fully developed from site and program to building

out of the past. In this condition preservation has won a new relevance for architecture that goes far beyond saving its canon of buildings. In the urgent context of climate change preservation is moving from the fringe of architectural culture into its core.

Re Master at KTH School of Architecture is a new master studio that started in the autumn of 2019, with the aim of addressing the notion of change, permeance and resilience through the means of restoration, reuse and repair. We explore the already built, the already thought and imagined, on paper or in concrete, in pasts and in the now, with the overall objective to push preservation into the core of architectural production today

For more information please see publications RE/01 and RE/02: www.remasterstudio.com Project 1 Archive Archive is divided into a series of speculative workshops that will explore Stockholm’s postmodern heritage in collaboration with ArkDes. The workshops will form the studios documentary archive and working material.

Project 2 RE-Public findings in the workshops. Focusing specifically on publicness and ornament the project should be developed from architectural detail to urban scale.

Project 3 RE-Store The project is an individual design proposal for the restoration of a public space in Stockholm. Based on a real case scenario, the www.issuu.com/kth-arkitekturskolan

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Project 4 RE-Publication RE-Piubliation is a collaborative publication of the studios material that will be the 3rd iteration in an ongoing series.

Mikael Bergquist MB is an architect living and working in Stockholm. Educated at KTH and the Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Started his own office 1996. Editor and curator of various books and exhibitions. The latest book is ”Josef Frank: Villa Carlsten”, (Park Books, 2019) Participated in the Alternative Histories exhibition in London, Brussels 2019–20. Thordis Arrhenius TA is an architect and researcher educated at KTH, the Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen and the AA. Her teaching and research is characterised by a dedication to contemporary critical issues in heritage and urbanism. Her publications include: ”Experimental Preservation”, (Lars Müller Publisher, 2016).