Articles about Architecture

Food on the roof in Kiruna

2017-12-21 Urban farming (on city grounds and roofs) has become increasingly popular across the world. Now, researchers at Luleå University of Technology want to develop this in a very cold climate, using the la...

The park supplies electricity

2017-12-11 In a research project in the border between art, architecture and research, Björn Ekelund, architect at Worm in Winter and lecturer at Luleå University of Technology, has been part of the design, of a...

Barcelona vs. Luleå

2017-12-03 Adolfo Sotoca is a new professor and subject representative in architecture at Luleå University of Technology. At his installation lecture, he compared his old hometown of Barcelona with his new resid...

As an architect, you have to have fun

2017-11-10 Jenny B Osuldsen, Landscape Architect and a partner of Snøhetta, a company based in Oslo and with many international liaisons. Some of their references are The Library of Alexandria, Ground Zero in Ne...

In the media: AIX recruits six people

2017-08-16 Klara Dagnäs is a civil engineer in architecture, with a focus on House and buildings, and graduated in 2017 at Luleå Technical University.

In the media: LTU wants to start prestige education in architecture

2017-05-18 Luleå University of Technology applies for increased funding of 32 million SEK. The reason: The university wants to start a professional education in architecture over five years (300 points). Fully e...

Student proposals for the new Kiruna

2017-03-20 A group of students from the Master Programme in Architectural Engineering at Luleå University of Technology has developed improvement proposals for the new Kiruna. The proposal is based on the plan d...

VR for a better society

2017-02-27 When Hampus Hugoson visited his parents' home where he lived for 19 years, he noticed something he had never thought of before. None of the houses in the area had the entrance door at ground level, it...

Vision for a future Kalix

2017-02-20 Students from the Master Programme in Climate Sensitive Urban Planning and Building has developed urban design proposals for the future of Kalix. A quieter, greener and denser city more suited for ped...

The city meets the water

2017-02-13 A group of students from the Master Programme in Architectural Engineering has produced proposals for a general problem in many Swedish coastal cities; roads that effectively cut off the water from th...

Green Megaprojects at the National University Singapore

2017-02-07 Agatino Rizzo, Architecture Research Group, is the only researcher based in a European university who has been selected to present his research on Green Megaprojects at the National University Singapo...

Past and present urban planning ideals

2017-01-09 Renovation and redesign of the Million Programme areas is a major challenge for many municipalities. Winny Lau, student in Architecture Engineering with specialization Urban Palnning at Luleå Universi...

In the media: National Delegate for Sweden at the Association of European Schools of Planning

2016-12-12 Agatino Rizzo, associate professor in the Architecture Research Group, has been elected as one of the two Swedish full national delegates, aided by two more substitutes, to the Association of European...

In the media: Lindbäcks nominated for the best new student housing concept

2016-10-31 Lindbäcks new student concept Komplettan has been nominated for this year's best new student concept, The Class Best New Student Housing Development of the Year Award in Europe by the foundation "The ...

Architecture with gaming technology

2016-10-18 Today's computer games are characterized by very advanced graphics with very lifelike and realistic environments. Can the game engines used in commercial computer games can also be used in completely ...

Gender equal city

2016-09-26 Sara Hultqvist has in her thesis at the Master Programme in Architectural Engineering written a compendium of how to paln and build more gender equal cities. The compendium is intended to serve as a t...

Future senior housing

2016-08-29 New concepts for future senior, older - and sheltered housing should be developed by researchers in the construction, architecture and Health Sciences at Luleå University. With the future referred to ...

Youth Architecture Project

2016-08-22 During the summer, 12 youth has been employed to develop ideas for an interesting project in the municipality of Luleå. They have developed concept sketches and architectural proposals for a new trave...

The Glacier in Jokkmokk

2016-06-20 The Glacier Buildning in Jokkmokk is a spectacular construction that still only exist in the virtual world. In a thesis for the Master Programme in Architectural Engineering at Luleå University of Tec...

The architect Anindita Mandal received trainee

2016-06-20 The architect Anindita Mandal from Mumbai University in India has got an internship at SBN via Short route. The program is for people with university education who lived in Sweden for less than three ...

The Student Who Became a Constructor

2016-06-15 When Johan Levol started his MSc program in architecture, he had no idea that the idea that he and his friends got on a coffee break would lead to a new property company. Today, he is the CEO of MAF F...

In the media: Solution for smoother communication between the crane operator and land people

2016-06-14 Often working communication between crane operators and people on the ground badly. The problem has three engineering students from Lulea a solution - the app Crane Plan.

New mineral exhibition at the university

2016-06-01 The mineral exhibition at Luleå University of Technology has received a facelift designed by students in architecture and developed in cooperation with The House of Technology. The final proposal was...

Heritage Processes in urban transformation

2016-05-19 Jennie Sjöholm can now call herself doctor after finishing her PhD research subject of architecture. Her thesis is about the cultural processes in the built environment; how buildings are valued and r...

Student project the Venture Cup

2016-05-09 Venture Cup is an ideas competition where the best business idea wins. Now a student project from Luleå University of Technology to streamline work with cranes at construction sites, has gone to the r...

Full house in the dragon´s den

2016-03-16 A popular feature of the course Lean Construction is "the dragon´s den" where students compete with innovative proposals for a professional jury. This year competed 80 students divided into 19 groups ...

Award-winning concept in architecture

2016-01-25 Linda Hartzell and Per Westermark, who study on the Master Programme in Architectural Engineering at Luleå University of Technology have won an international award for their urban design project: Clim...

Blog: Undetectable values, measurable facades

2015-10-05 Jennie Sjöholm, PhD student at theDepartment of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, has been a guest blogger on the Norrbottens Museum's web of cultural environments and measuremen...

Jubilee in Architecture

2015-09-04 The Master Programme in Architectural Engineering at Luleå University of Technology celebrated its 10th anniversary with a day filled with lectures, mingle and snacks. Right from the start this progra...

New mini student appartments

2015-09-03 If the rent is under 3 000 SEK many students think that it is quite okay during their stay at campus. During Wednesday the construction company Lindbäcks showed their new 16 square meter apartments, t...

To build The Good City

2015-05-27 On 21-22 May, The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) and IVA North held a seminar in Kiruna on the theme of the good city. The seminar was also the starting point for an upcoming IVA ...

Urban Transformation in Istanbul

2015-04-13 The architecture students Elanor Holm and Frida Andersson have spent nine weeks in Istanbul for their thesis. In Istanbul a fast and from a Swedish perspective pretty brutal urban transformation in wh...

Jennie Sjöholm elected for prestigious assignment

2015-04-07 Jennie Sjöholm, a PhD student in the research field of Architecture, has been elected to the board of The Swedish Industrial Heritage Association that protects industrial society's history and heritag...

Minisize student appartment at 16 m2

2013-05-29 Now, students at Luleå University of Technology take the housing crisis into their own hands and build their own appartments. How about a minisize student appartment within 16 square meters?

Full-scale models in architecture

2013-02-11 Digital Design & Making the name of an exciting project course in architecture now being held at Luleå University of Technology. This year full-scale pavilions are being built. The Works will be on di...

Smart energy efficiency of historic buildings in cold climates

2013-02-06 This project is now launched by Professor Kristina L. Nilsson within research subject Architecture. The results of the research will be useful for both large and small property owners

Gallery: Digital Design & Making 2013

2013-02-05

Cutting Edge Architecture at LTU

2012-02-10 A Pavilion with structure from a honeycomb learns from nature. The structural geometry of a honeycomb is valuable in its high strength to weigh ratio.

Published:27 February 2016
Updated: 11 October 2019
By:IT
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