In the autumn of 1964, Carl-Axel Acking, Bo Adamson, Carin Boalt and Sten Samuelson were appointed professors at the newly formed Department of Architecture in Lund.
They were tasked with starting Sweden's third architectural programme and building up research in the field. They succeeded very well, and now 60 years later several thousand architects have graduated and hundreds of students have obtained international master's degrees. In research and postgraduate education, knowledge has been built up and hundreds of degrees have been awarded, most of them at doctoral level.
We want to celebrate this anniversary together with students, former students, employees, partners and the public.
During the autumn, we therefore invite you to exhibitions, seminars and open lectures to celebrate the anniversary.
Are you a student/former student or employee/former employee? Financier or partner?
Then we invite you to the anniversary party on Friday 11 October. A programme is currently being prepared and will be presented on this page in due course.
For more information - please feel free to contact me.
Coordinator Helene Sveningsson
Mobile: +46 72 543 07 53
This is the first selection of our activities - welcome!
9 September | Symposium | Architects who build
This symposium deals with the issue "Architects who build".
Open event - taking place in A-building - more information will come in time.
Contact: Jesper Magnusson, Director of the School of Architecture
School of Architecture website: www.arch.lth.se
11 September | Exhibition | Autumn Saloon
The exhibition provides samples of excellent student work from our programmes and courses.
12 September | Exhibition 60+ UnFold: exploring artistic directions in architectural research | Skissernas Museum
Architecture at LTH | Lund University is celebrating its 60th anniversary with an exhibition in Gallerigången at Skissernas museum 2024-09-12—2024-10-27
Architecture is a discipline that includes socio-political issues, production and construction methods as well as insight into historical and future worlds. Sensibility towards form and matter is part of the aesthetics of architecture; artistic experimentation is imperative for ushering in speculative futures in societal transformation. The School of Architecture at Lund University is currently working on establishing new directions for artistic research in architecture. The exhibition presents a broad survey of architecture projects with artistic ambitions emanating from the School of Architecture at Lund University. The present collection of works is delineated along four trajectories of exploration— the socio-political strand, which engages with contemporary societal issues by offering alternative perspectives; digital fabrication, offering novel modes of production and construction; practice based research, which establishes generative connections between the architectural discipline and the outcome of real-world practices; and lastly, the education interface, which showcases innovative proposals by current students spanning from foundational to doctoral levels of education. These four trajectories contextualize the initial phase of establishing Sweden’s first platform for artistic research in architecture.
20 September | Exhibition | Visual Communication IV | Design students
The aim of the course Visual Communication IV is to enhance your ability to critically reflect upon the relation between humans and our visual and material culture. This is attained mainly by practical training in working with the realization of a redesigned plastic chair and with a scale model in 1:5 of a sitting furniture. Through teamwork, supervision, reviews and lectures you will get the chance to train your ability to take part in discussions about furniture and interior design. In the course, you will also get practical training in poster and folder design to improve your visual communication skills.
Exhibition open during the period of 20 September to 27 September 2024.
"Furniture in Transformation"
Industrial Design students on the Bachelor level year three at the School of Industrial Design, LTH, are exhibiting the project Furniture in Transformation. The aim with this project is to encourage a reflection of the valuation and labelling of designed objects. This has been achieved by analysing a so-called Modern Furniture Classic and then translating this analysis to a white plastic chair for outdoors use (model: Brafab, Altea stapelstol låg vit) through practical design work. The common white plastic chair is a helpful starting material, in that it offers and provokes different standpoints concerning aesthetic values, functionality and material techniques.
11 October | Exhibition | Architectural Design and prototypes
The architectural profession is constantly trying out new approaches as each project can have different conditions. However, sometimes we need to free ourselves from conventions and our own limitations. In the Design Process and Prototype course, we will complete an idea from sketch to relatively finished result through cross-disciplinary work at a manageable scale. We will benefit from other disciplines' approaches/methodologies. Cross-border encounters can generate new unexpected results and constraints can result in more creativity than free work without a framework. Study the world around you with open eyes and learn from others' discoveries and approaches. Challenge yourself! Remember that there are no failures, only lessons learnt.
With this exhibition we will participate at Stockholm Furniture Fair | February 4 - 8 2025
In case you are interested in our contribution this year | February 2024 | please take your time and visit ABM Website.
11 October | Party 60+
We take the opportunity when the Exhibition Hall is furnished for a party and invite students, former students, employees, former employees and collaboration partners to party with us.
After the opening of the exhibition, we continue the party, the bar is managed by friends from Bryggan, we arrange the music and the opportunity to meet.
Maybe a class reunion with fellow students from the past? Do you want to see a colleague from the past? Who knows?
We create the environment and the conditions, you bring out the party mood and join us.
13-14 October | Collaboration ARCHFILMLUND | ?
Grounded in 2009 by Elzbieta Jasinska Brunnberg the Lund International Architecture Film Festival takes place in the autumn providing a platform for exploring contemporary and historical interconnections between architecture and film, screening a wide range of fictional and documentary films and bringing together seminars/debates, exhibitions, workshops, lectures and other activities. Altogether these will form the framework for discussions about architecture in fiction films as well as visions of a good and liveable built environment for the future. Special guests – architects, filmmakers, journalists and artists from Sweden and abroad are invited to participate in seminars on architecture in films and themes highlighted in the documentary films.
14 October | Exhibition | Miniatures Design students
Industrial Design students on the Bachelor level, year three, are exhibiting the project Miniatures. Miniatures deals with sitting furniture in scale 1:5. The purpose of the project is to take advantage of the limitation in scale and to try several different experiments with design method, form, function and materials, with the aim of inventing a novel piece of furniture. The research and design process is documented and reflected upon in a folder.
September - December | Exhibition What about Anshelm?
Klas Anshelm (1914-1980), an architect and since 1973 an honorary doctor at LTH, was the man commissioned to build a new technical college in Lund in a short time. He was himself an engineer's son and had some artistic dreams, but trained as an architect at Chalmers. When he set up his own architectural practice in Lund in 1947, he embraced a modern function-based style of brick and concrete. The state became a major employer and gave him large commissions for the universities in Lund and Gothenburg.
The photo exhibition has been compiled by architect Per Qvarnström, a former student at the school. Per Qvarnström has organised a number of exhibitions and written a book on Klas Anshelm's work.
The exhibition is on site during the autumn until 16 December 2024.