Studio Themes 2021-2022

Studio Catalogue 2021–2022. YR 4/5 School of Architecture KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Course codes for the Studio projects 2021/2022 YR 4: Autumn A42A13 + A42B13 Spring A42C14 + A42D14 YR 5: Autumn and Spring A52A13 + A52B13

Studios 2021/2022

adrift: In Situ ............ 2 Applied Architecture ............ 4 Architecture and Daylight ............ 6 Fundamentals .......... 10 Housing .......... 12 Infinite Leisure .......... 14 Making .......... 16 Northern Grounds .......... 18 Out of Practice .......... 20 RE- .......... 22

adrift: In Situ Teachers: Rumi Kubokawa, Teres Selberg

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”

T. S. Eliot The studio is dedicated to an in situ involvement and will provide the opportunity for critical engagement through participatory processes, in collaboration with international organisations and communities in Porto and Bissau, as well as provide a platform to formulate your own independent artistic architectural practice.

We will work with the idea of architecture as praxis, the combination of theory, practice and rational critical action, with the understanding that forms of knowledge are collectively produced through history; Exploring architecture as common knowledge, we will work in close proximity to the existing context, with design and construction techniques as the actualization of potentialities that allow the producing and inhabiting of space. .

Teaching Methodology The studio proposes a teaching towards the unknown, as a collaborative (re)search-by-design, based on mutual knowledge and discovery between student and teacher. Students are encouraged to formulate their own projects departing from the reading of the briefs and analysis of the context. We value doubt and questioning and believe that the experience of working together with communities expands our perspective and role as architects. The aim is to provide a holistic understanding that supports the specific development of each student and inspires students to think broadly in an interdisciplinary, artistic and ethical manner.

The studio will work in collaboration with KTH Researchers Meike Schalk, Bojan Boric, Helena Mattsson and Pernilla Hagbert.

Project 1 Out of the Ordinary This project will explore buildings as artefacts in order to understand the process of design as embedded in a cultural, material, and cognitive dimension. Working with concepts of imperfection, tolerance and error in a process grounded on acute observation and precision, we will expose the intricate connections between the local and the global, while constructing a framework, grammar and method. We will develop architectural design projects derived out of the study.

Project 2 Urban Interior To design is to define a context and to re-shape the given. This project will start with on-site investigations in the historic urban fabric of Porto. We will explore the spaces of the city as an interior, testing spatial conditions where space and use are not limited by programmatic constraints and physical boundaries. The proposal will revolve around ideas for a new public room as an urban insertion, as a key to social interaction and sustainability.

Project 3 Poetic Economy In this project we will travel to Bissau in West Africa and work in collaboration with Lusófona University. The population of Bissau has doubled over the last decade, with 80% living in an informally structured city. We will engage in the complexity and spatial realities of informality and explore spatial and physical proposals together with the community. The outcome will be two-folded where the first focuses on mapping and representation methods and the second involves artistic explorations of vernacular language, construction, materials, climate, traditions of use.

Project 4 Public Realm as Process Building on the previous project, we will propose interventions for a public space in Bissau, harnessing the productive capacity of informality and feeding into ongoing projects of UN-Habitat in Bissau and their local collaboration partners.

We will explore different concepts for community and new forms of social and cultural relationships, taking into account decolonizing processes, constructing new narratives of how we live together, and the implications of these in spatial practice.

Teres Selberg TS is an architect and educator. She runs her own artistic practice connecting dance and architecture and is a member of the organization Dansbana! creating public places for dance. 2006 she co-founded Architects without frontiers in Sweden

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Rumi Kubokawa RK is a brazilian architect and educator. She has graduated from the Architectural Association and practiced in Brazil and the UK.

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1. Streets of Bissau Velho (Old town) constructed during colonialism.

2. Mapping - Dance score for In the Mountain_On the Mountain, Anna Alprin, 1981.

3. Rodrigo Lefèvre, Casa Zammataro, 1970.

4. Vija Celmins, To Fix The Image In Memory, 1977-82.

5. Bissau 2030 Sustainable Development Plan by UN Habitat.

6. Konokono Vaccination Center, Turkana, Kenya by Selgas Cano together with students from MIT – Hello Everything, 2014.

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Applied Architecture Teachers: 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 studio work will stretch from a small scale refurbishment to the geographic scale in a project for a large building placed in a natural landscape. Shifting focus in every task we will look into the principles of stone, wood, steel and concrete constructions.

A central theme will be the relationship between construction and architectural expression. In order to focus on the connection between these categories we will collaborate with structural engineers who will participate in the studio work as lecturers, supervisors and critics Teaching Methodology 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.

Mats Fahlander MF studied architecture at KTH and HDK in Berlin. His office, Fahlander Arkitekter is located in Stockholm. Besides his architectural practice he has been working as a teacher in different terms at KKH and KTH.

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Project 1 Transformation of an existing cellar in central Stockholm into an oyster bar. Range of representation scales: 1:20 - 1:1 Architectural themes: Massiveness, exclusivity, building without facades, atmospheric qualities.

Seminars/lectures: History of the building site, digital measuring techniques, brick/stone constructions, “Designing Restaurants” Project 2 Apartment building with commercial facilities in central Stockholm Range of representation scales: 1:500 -1:20 Architectural themes: Relating to a historical context, grammar of the city, public/private, “a building with one single façade”, prefabrication: the serial versus the unique.

Seminars/lectures: Means of city planning, architectural/technical/ environmental aspects of prefabricated concrete constructions, “core and shell” Project 3 Large storage hall in a natural landscape Range of representation scales: 1:2000 - 1:20 Architectural themes: the built versus the natural, “destroying reasonably”, skeleton structures, relationship between structure and architectural expression…

Seminars/lectures: Material properties of wood/steel, structural principles in wide span constructions Project 4 Wooden bridge in the KTH campus area: student competition followed by physical construction of the winning scheme in scale 1:1 Range of representation scales: 1:100 - 1:1 Architectural themes: Architectural engineering, engineering architecture, designing within the limited framework of structural and logistic aspects Seminars/lectures: Principals of bridge construction, dimension standards of industrially produced timber, prefabricating and building on site.

Tobias Nissen TN 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.

TN is a cofounder of the Stockholm based office Vera Arkitekter.

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1. Ture No 8, Stockholm, Vera Arkitekter, 2014 2. Rue Franklin, Paris, Auguste Perret, 1904 3. Wooden bridge, Hans Ulrich Grubenmann, 18th century 4. Lethbridge University, Arthur Erickson, late 1960s 5. Oaxen Bistro, Stockholm, Fahlander Arkitekter, 2015

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Architecture and Daylight Teachers: Per Franson, Rodrigo Muro

Studio Theme Given the intimate correlation of light and architecture, their dependency and influence on human perception and experience, the Studio focuses on a strong interdisciplinary approach of Light, Architecture, Art & Engineering. By orchestrating the visible and the invisible throughout the design process will allow human centered and empathic spaces. These poetic dimensions as well as the tectonic properties of architecture are enhanced and conveyed by using light and darkness as materials. The aim is to create a synergy between Light & Architecture through an interdisciplinary platform.

Architecture will be observed, analyzed, discussed and interpreted by means of a design based approach where light is the common thread. Modelling and experiencing light at different scales, from working models to immersive large scale models will be a fundamental part of this journey..

Teaching Methodology Theory and practice support each other in parallel by applying theoretical knowledge to experiments and projects. The method is to learn through observation, site analysis and practical testing; firsthand experience. As daylight is diverse and varies, the Studio method is site specific in the Nordic context. Gained knowledge, methodology and practical exercises are transferable and contextualized to any desired geographical point and to various projects in different scales and complexities.

Project 1 Through experience, analysis and reflection students will be able to grasp terminology, concepts and qualities of light & space.

Observation, analysis, sketching and model making are the main tools. Moving between lectures and theory of light and human perception through hands-on exercises using both analogue and digital tools. Dynamics of daylight and its complexity is to be translated into no - scale spatial configurations emerged from experimentation, iteration and re-interpretation..

Project 2 Openings in Architecture - Small Scale project The focus of this course is on openings in Architecture. The task involves design, construction and calculations for an off -grid space in a site-specific location in nature. We will use both digital and analog site analysis tools to understand the specific elements of the site. The result consists of a set of drawings of the space as well as a functional 1:10 scale model window design, its daylight intake character and technical properties.

Project 3 Site Specificness and Site Mapping Working with the pre-existing environmental conditions, village infrastructure and collaboration with a mix of locals, tourists and researchers at Kristinebergs Marine Center we will explore the possibility of a new blue industry and economy. The Studio will document and interpret the environmental conditions of Skaftö Island, specifically the location of Kristineberg and its proximity to Gullmarsfjorden and the ocean.

Project 4 Addition to Kristineberg Marine Center Moving from P3 reviews and interdisciplinary tutorials with experts in structure, sustainable and climate design, the project development process gains an eco-tectonic focus around daylight design and architectural sustainability with the progressive program of a future extension to the Marine center and its needs for further research of the Ocean.

Per Franson Head of the Architectural Lighting Department with 15 years of experience of own practice, keen on bringing practice and education closer together.

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Rodrigo Muro Professionally experienced architect & lighting designer is the Program Director at KTH for the masters in Architectural Lighting Design.

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1. Isabelle Bernhard, Work from P1 2. Gabriel Blomberg, Work from P2 3. Sara Sandqvist Gustafsson, Work from P3 4. Thorburgur Fredriksson, Work from P4

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Fundamentals Teachers: Konrad Krupinski, Leif Brodersen

Studio Theme The studio will throughout the year explore different aspects of architectural experience. The focus will be on the fundamentals of architecture; light, movement, scale, proportion, mass/void, geometry, etc. Investigations will be made on the precise and sensitive use of these basic elements together with the organization of space and program. Environmental sustainability, with a special interest in wooden constructions, and social inclusion will be addressed specifically.

In project 1 (2021) geometrical and irregular forms and patterns as generators for architectural space will initially be analyzed in selected architectural masterpieces – that later will be altered. In project 2 (2021) natural and manmade landscapes will be researched in order to design a small cultural center in memory of the artist Hilma af Klint at Munsö in Ekerö.

In the spring the studio will study different artistic interdisciplinary tools and methods, first the relation to dance and choreography and

Project 1 Reinterpreting Symmetries and Form Through deeper studies of emblematic buildings and their specific beauty and qualities, the studio will develop an understanding for symmetrical and irregular composition, geometrical or random form as generators for architectural space. We will first document, rerepresent and analyze existing architectural masterpieces. In the second part of the project we will develop individual architectural projects by making alterations of the studied buildings. The project definition is optional; deconstruction, studies of mannerism, reinterpretation, paraphrase, additions, alterations etc.

later between filmmaking and architecture. In project 3 (2022) a dance center will be designed in the suburb Vårberg, while project 4 (2022) will learn from the Japanese context examining diversity, metabolism and other conceptions of space and time and result in a film studio residence in Tokyo.

personality Hilma af Klint at Munsö in Ekerö. The program includes an exhibition space, workshop areas and a small library. The surrounding landscape and how it can be reshaped to create a fictive or spiritual parallel experience will be of great focus. Studies will be made of cultural landscapes, manmade nature and sustainable ecological initiatives.

Teaching Methodology This studio investigates different experiences of architecture and conceptions of space in relation to the synthesizing design process.

Basic architectural concepts are explored through a methodology wherein students and teachers collaborate in a kind of research-bydesign structure. The students define and formulate their own projects from a given topic and self-program their projects to reflect on the problems and possibilities described in the analysis and definition of the context. The aim is to provide tools and methods in order to give the students an independent, innovative, artistic, professional, ethical and scientific identity. Every project is specific and independent, but also relates to the general theme.

Leif Brodersen LB started teaching at the KTH School of Architecture in 1996. and an Associate Professor since 2004 . He served as Head of the School 2005-2012. He is also a founding partner at the Stockholm-based practice 2BK Arkitekter, established 1999.

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Project 2 Hilma af Klint Center By re-defining interpretations and using methods from the first project, as well as studying the interplay between art and nature, the studio will design an art center in memory of the artist and spiritual

Project 3 Dance House in Vårberg In this project the studio will study different artistic tools and methods focusing on dance and choreography and develop individual architectural projects investigating the relationships between dance, movement, gravity, body and space. The brief is a small dance center for the local youth in the suburb of Vårberg, intending to use dance as social interaction and cultural production for social sustainability..

Project 4 Film Studio Residence Ii Tokyo In this project the studio will study Japanese traditional and contemporary culture and architecture, including important concepts such as ‘Ma’ and ‘Oku’. The brief has its starting point in the understanding of the diverse urban fabric of Tokyo metropolitan area as well as in the concept of film-making (directing, editing, and producing) in relation to architecture and contemporary cultural movements. These studies will be applied in the design of a film studio residence in Tokyo.

Konrad Krupinski KK is an Adjunct Teacher at KTH Architecture since 2015. He is also founding partner at the architecture practice Krupinski/ Krupinska. He has prior professional experience from OMA in New York and SANAA in Tokyo as well as Tham & Videgård and Wingårdhs in Stockholm.

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1. Kunio Maekawa House, 1942 2. Tokyo, Koenji urban fabric.

3. Cloudscapes by Tetsuo Kondo at the 12th Architecture Biennale in Venice, 2010 4. Prada Transformer by OMA, 2007 5. Studio 24, Roy Andersson Film Production 6. F-Art House by Kazuyo Sejima, 2009 7. Hilma af Klint, Svanen, 1915

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Housing Studio Teachers: Erik Stenberg, Frida Rosenberg

Studio Theme Muddy and Motley Mass Housing for Millions of Homes The Housing Studio will explore and design mass housing solutions through reusing building elements, building systems, and material components. The studio will be a vehicle in ongoing research networks that search for sustainable and real-life housing developments: In Helsingborg we will engage in the dismantling of the Welfare State housing production of the 1960’s and explore reusing precast concrete for a circular economy. In Duved we will explore how local community can become more actively involved in the development initiatives and the municipal planning process. The aim is to extend our understanding of circular architecture—its possibilities and restrictions in the urban milieu as well as in the regional context. Our studio will continue to map an understanding of the historical genealogy of circular architecture from a material, tectonic, structural and technological standpoints as well as engage in the architect’s role in designing new living environments and its

Project 1 Cyclical and Circular Concepts in Architecture Locating examples and shaping a critical foundation for designing, recycling and embracing adaptive re-use in mass housing including a palette of materials, structural systems, local conditions and the urban setting. This seven-week course will map and analyze concepts and case studies of cyclicality and circularity in architecture. This will shape a foundation for our future studies of guiding principles of mass housing during the 20th century. By interpreting living conditions and structural systems, we will confront issues of dwelling, domesticity, culture, tectonics and construction.

effects on society. With the sustainability question in focus, the studio will deepen the understanding of how to limit effects of architectural production on our environment and reconsider how cultural resources are a part of circular and cyclical architecture.

in Helsingborg. In this eight weeks course we will make use of the knowledge and research in P1 to alter and reframe the idea of designing mass housing implementing concepts of circular architecture. One of the important aspects of this project is to understand the possibilities that rests in construction systems as well as speculate on how to make use of material resources.

Teaching Methodology The studio proposes a process of designing mass housing as it relates to structural and material methods intimately tied with a historical perspective while critically engaging in today’s housing debates. We think that design through knowledge in material and architectural technology implicates the understanding of tectonics and space. 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. The studio will foster an empathetic attitude for the complementary roles of the architect and engineer. Our primary tools will be surveying/ cataloguing and drawings of both new and historical precedents as part of our mapping phase. Each semester will include a phase of identifying and researching existing examples as well as a design phase proposing new mass housing. Our teaching methodology proactively engages with contemporary practices by extensively making use of lectures and case studies.

Erik Stenberg ES is an Associate Professor in Architecture with 20 years of teaching experience also engaged in housing research. He has a special affinity for the Swedish Million Program Era and is currently pursuing solutions to the contemporary Housing Question in the face of climate change.

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Project 2 Future Circular Mass Housing We will reuse prefab concrete from existing housing to design new housing for a postwar modernist housing area. This course will put an emphasis on designing future circular mass housing at Drottninghög

Project 3 Designing Resources and Methods In this course we will critically research questions of housing such as, housing as a commodity in an overheated housing market; current housing policies, and politics of extraction. Alongside with these complicated issues we will engage in planning for circular architecture in the rural countryside and land areas outside the city.

Where are underused buildings located and where are buildings threatened to be demolished?

Project 4 Circular Duved We will design a multifamily housing project. We will encounter dilemmas of city vs countryside, the seasonal influx of people, tourism etc. The studio will design new mass housing solution with focus on future scenarios in Duved. Applying methods of circular architecture that previous research has located and contextualized this design task is both about designing the process from dismantling to building as well as all the common challenges of designing new housing.

Frida Rosenberg FR is a lecturer in Architecture teaching both design and history/theory courses. She has a PhD in Architecture history with a focus on architectural technology, which analyzed the introduction of steel construction in post war Sweden in relation to the collaborative aspect of making architecture.

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1. Student Léo Friedmann, Diploma: Saving Erskine: An Example in Circular Heritage, 2020 2. Studio production Structural Systems of Swedish Mass Housing, December 2020 3. Student Julia Thiem, Diploma :Adapting Snäckan 8, 2021..

4. Front page student exhibition catalogue Flying Elements, Fall 2019..

5. Research project ReCreate: Reusing precast concrete. Photo credit: Helsingborgshem AB 6. Student exhibit at Stadsarkivet Liljeholmskajen, published in Arkitekten November 2019

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Infinite Lesiure Teachers: Elena Carlini, Rutger Sjögrim

Studio Theme Infinite Leisure is about imagining a life and an architecture beyond work. Which is not engaged in labor or recuperation, nor in the reproduction of biopolitical infrastructure that is needed to sustain laboring bodies. So: imagine free time and free space. And then imagine that this time is all the time (or, at least, a radically increased part of our lives). In a future where we work considerably less, new rituals for meaning and belonging can be hypothesized. What would the architectural spaces and types be, though, that correspond to the stories being told and the lives being lived?

The point of the thought exercise proposed through the studio is to think both progressively and critically, with optimism and agency, about the future. To try to imagine a life and an architecture beyond capitalist realism and produce tales and images that could be fantastic, strange, frightening, ridiculous, or banal, but which somehow all try to open a crack in the present and search for a new life of wonder beyond.

Teaching Methodology The studio explores architectural image making, montage, sequence and narrative design, storyboards, posters, video and film, fiction and documentary techniques, and print and/or hyper media. One basic premise that we will work with is that the media presented is always taken as the actual site for the project, rather than a representation or a placeholder for the “real”. The medium is the message.

We will use video montages to describe narratives, events, or affects; and image montages to paint spaces. These montages will be iteratively refined until they attain the precision expected of a typical architectural project. We will put together a reference library of still images, video material, and films, which will be expanded collectively as the courses progresses.

Project 1 Place is the Space (Montage) The first project will focus on the montage as a dialectic technique of making still and moving images. We will build a visual inventory of existing and potential leisure typologies and through video montages we will speculate on the affects of being at leisure. This catalogue of types and affects will form the base for our first adventure into the near future; for the rest of the course, we will use poster-sized photomontages to define, refine, and detail a spatial intervention for new leisure in the city.

Project 2 This City does Not Exist (Sequence) The second project introduces sequence and narrative to the already established technique of montage. We will work with narrative design, storyboarding, short film sequence, image making, and collaborate with filmmakers and concept designers to trace future forms of leisure for longer stretches of time, as well as through space. We will revisit our inventory of types and affects, and we will tell strange and marvelous tales of leisure cities from the soon to be present.

Project 3 The Great Outdoors (Territory) For our third project, we will explore a landscape that is transformed by new radical forms of non-work. At the scale of territory, we trace leisure systems as networks that stretch across regions, across countries, and beyond. We will investigate the diagrammatic, forensic, and critical but also persuasive use of visuals and the montage’s ability to reveal as well as to conceal.

Project 4 What is This? (A center for leisure) We return from our travels in time and space back to the present, where we will present our findings in the form of a new typology: a center for leisure. Using the distributed welfare infrastructure of the leisure center as its tether, the new center is something different; it is radically altered and a gateway to the future. It’s a reminder that whatever can be dreamt can be made real, if only we want it (all of us).

Elena Carlini EC is a MA at IUAV and Columbia University as a Fulbright Scholar; worked with Emilio Ambasz, Richard Meier in USA and Studio Valle architetti in Italy; runs an independent practice. Taught at Syracuse University and Ferrara University.

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Rutger Sjögrim RS is an architect who is based and educated in Stockholm. RS is a founding partner at Stockholm based architecture practice Secretary and a Lecturer in Architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology.

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1. Untitled, Rutger Sjögrim, 2018 2. Untitled, Rutger Sjögrim, 2018 3. Aniara, Sf Studios, 2018, directed by Pella Kågeman and Hugo Lija 4. On Space Time Foam, T. Saraceno, 2012 at Hangar Bicocca Milano 5. Fabrique De Joie, Suzanne Duchamp, 1920

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Making Teachers: Fredrik Stenberg, Karin Matz

Studio Theme Welcome to a year of exploring, experimenting, designing, discussing – a year of MAKING. 1:1 is our scale and we joyfully explore the execution. Design is a verb, it’s something you do, it’s making. We want to give you the confidence to dare. Studying spaces, details, measurements, bodies, atmospheres, in order to make new discoveries. We believe you learn most of all from each other so a continuous conversation will be ongoing in the studio. In our house!

Making resides outside and inside a building on campus marked for demolition. For the third year we will go in and leave our layer of MAKING in the building.

"The ability to build assumes the knowledge of all architecture and construction forms, as well as their development. To build means to advance this process, to investigate, and to make. The development of buildings began over ten thousand years ago and has reached an extremely high level, but is in no way a closed process. There are still an infinite number of open possibilities, infinite discoveries to make."

(A Conversation with Frei Otto, Juan María Songel 2004) Teaching Methodology Designing and making is key to the design process here in order to gain new insights and knowledge. Process as well as outcomes are essential parts of the discourse. The results are communicated through design work as well as placed and discussed in a field of references and understanding. The design begins at the outset. It's not about consuming or referring to design, it's about making it.

Throughout the year we will approach the design process in different ways by letting different agents be the active force within the framework of the projects. We will work, the agent will operate.

We will work transdisciplinary through workshops with artists, set designers, curators, carpenters and engineers. The nature of building projects demands 80% of a 40 h week during daytime. Through a series of walks together we will try to explore and understand the built environment around us and try to achieve a year long conversation. - We relate to sustainability through making of re- and upcycled materials and by relating ourselves economically to material, time and money by examining diverse aspects..

Fredrik Stenberg 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 Art and Architecture Biennale (2003 and 2010) in Venice, and are represented in the collections of Moderna museet.

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Project 1 Unfamiliar – Colour and morphology in space and time We start with a manifest, or a letter of intent as a starting point. With conscious choices we make structures. We move towards letting the intention of the designer being the active agent.

A manifesto is a published declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party or government [Wikipedia] Project 2 Representation - 2D - 3D - 2D Gottfried Semper talks about the ornament principle as being the artform while the construction principle being the core-form. When the art-form is masking the core-form we talk about ornament or representation and when you can't distinguish the art from the coreform we talk about tectonics. We stay in the field of art-form, asking where it begins and ends. We will make structures by letting the artform be the active agent.

Project 3 Elements - Social Set Design Starting with the parts, the elements, which make up a space we will investigate how to create spaces for social interactions and different atmospheres. How many centimeters are comfortable, how many creates intimacy, how many are for flirting and how many are too far away? Through making and remaking a social set machine consisting of the elements of architecture slowly appears.

Project 4 Tectonics - What else can You Do There is a tradition within architecture of going to the material and asking it what I can do. Implying that there is an underlying tectonical logic to every material. We will build structures having the tectonics being the active agent. And we will ask the material: - So, what else can you do?

Karin Matz KM an architect. She has designed a series of widely published smaller projects (Karin Matz Arkitekt), and was project architect for the Haganova development in Hagastaden (Vera Arkitekter). KM is a lecturer at the School of Architecture and principal at the architecture office SECRETARY

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1. Studio Making Outside DrottningKristinas väg 67 2020.

2. Studio Making Alastair Porter Representation 2019.

3. Studio Making Marie Le Rouzic and Malin Bergman Tectonics 2019.

4. Studio Making Ellert Björn Omarsson Representation 2021.

5. Studio Making Ane Torgård and Petra Olofsson Tectonics 2021.

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Northern Grounds Teachers: Pablo Miranda Carranza, Ulrika Karlsson

Studio Theme This year we will continue a three-year theme looking at the North.

The studio proposes a shift in focus from urban conditions to the less populated territories of Northern Scandinavia, hosts to a diversity of cultures, ecologies and natural resources. To the central role that traditional forms of mapping, representing and narrating have played in its complex history, we have today to add digital forms of sensing, surveying and data processing and their role in reimagining a contemporary North.

The studio builds on these shifting Northern Grounds arising from the entwined relationships between the material and the immaterial, the real and the represented. A series of sites – urban, natural, museal, fictive, as well as digital, will become the points of departure for design research. The resulting architectural objects will function as vehicles for rethinking what has always been a mediated North.

Teaching Methodology How we work affects what we produce. With a focus on research through making, a central interest of the studio is the role of representation in producing architecture. This interest is inserted within contemporary approaches (often labelled as post-digital) emphasising the entanglements of the physical with the virtual and their effect on how we picture, understand, and make architecture.

Through collaborative and individual design experiments, the studio’s aim is to propose ways of seeing and making through machinic processes such as 3D scanning and photogrammetry, film, algorithmic image processing, artificial intelligence or CNC fabrication. The design works, supported through reading seminars and discussions, will contribute to architectural discourse and its dialog with contemporary society, art, popular culture and aesthetics.

Project 1 Gathering Sensibilities The first semester will concentrate on Jokkmokk, the second largest municipality in Sweden. Rich in hydroelectric resources, natural reserves, and significance in terms of Sami culture, it embodies many of the possibilities and conflicts of the North. This first project will entail the gathering, and curation of materials through observations, 3d scanning, algorithmic image analysis and physical models. They will begin questioning how the civic can be materialised both physically and virtually as architecture, problematising what this means within the vastness of the North.

Project 2 Vicinity of Things The second phase will propose architectural interventions around these kernels of civility that may function as their additions, supplements, reassemblies or appendixes. This will result in a set of scenarios on how these civic conditions may be sustainably supplemented, speculations on virtual futures for the Jokkmokk region that will be presented at the end of the semester.

Project 3 Ways of Seeing The second semester will expand the understanding of developed techniques and methods as new ways of seeing and making, and the aesthetic sensibilities they entail. Students will be supported in formulating and structuring their own brief and research agenda. This part of the course will include workshops with invited guests that will target specific conceptual, technical and aesthetic techniques.

Project 4 Postproduction The final project will have a focus on postproduction, where the students get an opportunity to experiment and develop a set of representations and presentations of their projects. We will return to issues around the role of architectural representations including a focus on moving images or film in architecture through the concept of the super image and super model.

Pablo Miranda Carranza PMC is a researcher at KTH and senior lecturer at the Department of Architecture at Lund University. His research deals with the historical, critical and aesthetic implications of digital technology in architecture, currently through a VR sponsored postdoctoral artistic research at MIT.

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Ulrika Karlsson UK is an architect and landscape architect, partner of the architectural practice Brrum as well as of Servo Stockholm. She is a Professor in Architecture at the KTH School of Architecture and currently a Guest Professor at Städelschule, Frankfurt. At KTH she is engaged in artistic research within the field of architecture funded by VR.

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1. Studio project, Carl Lagerkvist, Arif Reza and Agnes Fernvik spring 2021 2. Studio project Positional Uncertainty, Yilin Qiu and Jimmy Ibrahim spring 2021 3. Stora Sjöfallet, point cloud, Cecilia Lundbäck and Ulrika Karlsson, 2019 4. Super model, H. Hermansson, A. Kihlberg and E. Lundkvist, studio project 2018 5. Machine Architecture, Max Spett, studio diploma project, 2018

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Out of Practice Teachers: Anders Berensson, Malin Heyman

Studio Theme What constitutes architecture practice today, and how do we practice becoming its practitioners? Out of Practice sets out to take a few close looks at the contemporary tangle of architecture, relying on the healing potential of practicing our practice with all the naiveté we can muster.

Out of Practice emphasizes the significance of the specific tools used in architectural practice in terms of their effects on the resulting architectures and the consequences of their production, as well as the influence of past and present structures of power embedded within them. By attentively and playfully using, discussing and attempting to challenge the tools of architecture one at a time, we hope to slowly start untangling our understanding of what agency we really have as practitioners. Working out our imagination as well as working an embodied perspective into all experiments, we will try to make ourselves aware of our own points of view and exercise our empathy.

Project 1 What’s the Matter? / Building System Through work in groups constructing a (very) small building, we study a common building system in all its parts and functions by first building according to standard and then reconstruct.

Teaching Methodology Projects will be short and focused over the course of the academic year. By isolating one tool at a time and providing frameworks for how our work oscillates between production and reflection, we aim to improve our command over each tool as well as deepen our understanding of histories and effects that may otherwise be overlooked. On the topic of each tool, we will learn both from a representative from within architecture practice and a guest from another field where the same tool is used. As both deliverables and manner of working will vary significantly between projects, we intend for different abilities, inclinations and previous experience within the student group to come to light at different points of the year. Taking risks is key, and failure is celebrated!

Stock Check / Room Specifications The contemporary production of buildings is to a significant degree a matter of combining readymade products. We will study the architect as shopper and use room specifications as our tool.

Anders Berensson AB is an architect educated at Chalmers University of technology and KTH. AB has worked at OMA, co-founded visionsdivision and is currently director of Anders Berensson Architects. AB is a lecturer at KTH School of Architecture and has previously taught KTH Master Studio, Full Scale Studio.

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Project 2 Cut! / Drawing What does the cut do for us in architectural drawing, and are plans and sections soon to be obsolete? We will construct an architecture by working between space and surface, working out our imagination in relation to visual hang-ups.

Project 3 Shoot, the Picture! / Collage Architecture imagines futures. In this project we imagine through collaging images and visualizing in detail 1:1.

Project 4 Taking Measures / Site Survey After revisiting processes for how land is surveyed, we will propose priorities for what and how to measure through the production of drawings to scale and 1:1 drawing on site.

Room for Whom? / Project Description We reflect on speculative project descriptions by composing our own science fiction manuscripts..

Malin Heyman MH is an architect educated at KTH (BA), the Cooper Union in New York (MA) and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (history and theory of architecture). MH is co-founder of the practice AT - HH, lecturer at KTH School of Architecture and contributor to both research and popular culture publications.

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1. Student Yoriko Rose Hallgren, project Shoot! The Picture.. 2020 2. Students: Alexander Hallberg, Klara Hallberg, Yoriko Rose Hallgren och Ellinor Karlander, project Stock Check 2020

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RETeachers: 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 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 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 address 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 flip the studio publications RE/01-RE4: www.remasterstudio.com www.issuu.com/kth-arkitekturskolan

Mikael Bergquist MB is an architect and writer, educated at KTH and the Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen.

Through his own office he has executed projects and restorations on canonical modern buildings. His latest published book is Josef Frank: Villa Carlsten, (Park Books, 2019) He participated in the Alternative Histories exhibition in London 2019.

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Project 1 RE-Archive The project is divided into a series of speculative workshops that will explore Stockholm’s monumental heritage in collaboration with ArkDes. The workshops will form the studios documentary archive and working material.

Project 2 RE-Act Act is the development of a project based on the findings in the workshops. Focusing specifically on publicness and monumentality the project should be developed from architectural detail to urban scale.

Project 3 RE-Pair A design proposal for the re-use and re-organization of a monumental public building in Stockholm inner city core. Based on a real case scenario, the project should be fully developed from site and program to building scale.

Project 4 RE-Public A collaborative site-specific exhibition showing and making public the studios material and findings.

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).

1. Speculations on Medborgarplatsen, Stockholm. Students: Hedvig Carlin, Anna Zander, Jim Andersson. 2021.

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