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Johan Linton has been appointed as Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture in Venice (IUAV)

Johan Linton, Associate Professor in the Theory and History of Architecture and teacher at the Division of Architecture and Water, has been appointed as Visiting Professor 2021 by the School of Architecture in Venice (IUAV).

The architecture of future cities after covid-19

27 Nov. 2020 12:00 – 13:00 , ltu.se/vhlive:

Covid-19 has accelerated the existing conflicts regarding the use of land and resources in small and large cities worldwide. However, we still design and build in the same way we have done for the past 50 years.

The Dragon´s Den 2020

This year's version of the innovation competition "The Dragon´s Den" was held in the House of Science due to the corona pandemic and the requirement for physical distance. 42 students in 12 groups presented their business ideas to a jury consisting of Stefan Lindbäck, CEO Lindbäcks Group, Mattias Li...

Open positions in Architecture

Research in architecture is expanding with new exciting projects in the areas of big data, urban analytics, urban solar energy, heritage districts

Harvard students study Urban transformation of the Arctic city Kiruna

History professor Dag Avango, at Luleå University of Technology, is responsible for an international digital workshop: "What does it take to move a city?" It is held for master's students in collaboration with Harvard Research University in Cambridge, on the theme of sustainable development in the A...

Best Poster Award to Cristina Ramos Caceres

This award was presented at the 35th PLEA CONFERENCE SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN conference. Planning Post Carbon Cities. A Coruña, 1st-3rd September 2020.

In the media: Kiruna was to build "the world's northernmost passive house"

Six years ago, Sweden's northernmost passive house in Kiruna would be the first in an Arctic climate. Today, there is no one who wants to comment on how the result was.

Dissertation Sofia Löfgren - Architecture

23 Oct. 2020 10:00 – 13:00 , E632 or online with Zoom:

Considering landscape in practices of transport planning

Webinar: The role of renewable energy in post COVID-19 public spaces

27 Aug. 2020 14:00 – 15:30 , Online:

This event is hosted by the Journal of Public Space in collaboration with the Chinese University of Hong Kong

In the media: Engineering students have designed this year's running tracks

One of the students who produced one of the new rounds of the year Filip Åstrand, who is ready for the third year to become a civil engineer in architecture at Luleå University of Technology.

Published:31 October 2013

Updated: 2 November 2020

By:Peter Rosander

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