Department of Architecture and Built Environment

Lund Architecture Symposium (LAS) is a forum for international knowledge exchange and development, where disciplines and professions are given the opportunity to meet to explore and debate methods and approaches to learning and action in contemporary and future society building.

By mobilising international cutting-edge expertise in selected subject areas, LAS becomes a forum for academic excellence.

LAS serves several purposes:

• Gives all students the opportunity to participate in an international symposium.
• Contributes to increased internationalisation at the department and programme.
• All students, in all years, participate. They are part of a whole.
• Contributes to building an academic culture at ABM.
• Creates a forum for exploring and introducing new trends in the discipline and profession, which contributes to academic excellence and relevance. Develops the skills of researchers, doctoral students and teachers.
• Creates international references for all students.
• The school advertises a progressive attitude to the role of architecture in society.
• The press, industry and faculty are invited. As the symposium is streamed, lectures and debates are made available globally. The School of Architecture and LTH are exposed nationally and internationally.
• The symposium stimulates interaction. Students have the opportunity to build international networks.
• Everyone is given the opportunity to take part in research-based and investigative architectural practices, which broadens the students' career paths.
• It is an opportunity for students, researchers and teachers to meet for mutual knowledge exchange and development.
• Students participate in the planning and implementation on behalf of the programme.

Per-Johan Dahl

Head of Department of Architecture and Built Environment

E-mail: per-johan.dahl@abm.lth.se

Helene Sveningsson

Communication officer/coordinator

E-mail: helene.sveningsson@abm.lth.se