School of Architecture and the Built Environment
Our research and educational programmes relates to the future of our society; how cities, buildings and infrastructure will be designed and built, how institutions and regulatory systems should be developed to produce a good living environment, and how to provide good development conditions for business.
The School of Architecture and the Built Environment is comprised of six departments and seven centres for advanced research.
The School of Architecture and the Built Environment is one of five schools at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Departments

Stockholm Water Prize Laureate Günter Blöschl visits KTH
Professor Günter Blöschl, Vienna University of Technology and University of Bologna, held a seminar at KTH Campus on 28 August, the day after he received this year's Stockholm Water Prize from HM the ...
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Diasporic Welfare Landscapes: Transformative Histories of the Million Program
Chero Eliassi Sarzeli, Division of Architecture and Culture, Department of Architecture, will defend her doctoral thesis on Friday 12 september 2025.
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Smart Design, Control, and Optimization of Thermal Energy Storage
Amirmohammad Behzadi at the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, will publicly defend his doctoral thesis on 28 August 2025.
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- Stockholm Water Prize Laureate Günter Blöschl visits KTH
10 Sep 2025
- Where the Wind Blows
8 Sep 2025
- Nordic energy informatics conference in retrospect
8 Sep 2025
- Diasporic Welfare Landscapes: Transformative Histories of the Million Program
2 Sep 2025
- KTH joins think tank for humanities
27 Aug 2025
Calendar
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Public defences of doctoral theses
Friday 2025-09-26, 09:00
Location: Gradängsalen, Room 5703, Teknikringen 1, Campus, public video conference
Video link: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/61851386411
Doctoral student: Yat Yin Lai , Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik
2025-09-26T09:00:00.000+02:00 2025-09-26T09:00:00.000+02:00 Navigating within the planetary limits (Public defences of doctoral theses) Gradängsalen, Room 5703, Teknikringen 1, Campus, public video conference (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)Navigating within the planetary limits (Public defences of doctoral theses) -
Public defences of doctoral theses
Friday 2025-09-26, 10:00
Location: Kollegiesalen, Brinellvägen 8, Stockholm
Video link: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/68550178129
Doctoral student: Devika Prakash , Urbana och regionala studier
2025-09-26T10:00:00.000+02:00 2025-09-26T10:00:00.000+02:00 From Chaos to Control (Rooms) (Public defences of doctoral theses) Kollegiesalen, Brinellvägen 8, Stockholm (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)From Chaos to Control (Rooms) (Public defences of doctoral theses) -
Public defences of doctoral theses
Friday 2025-09-26, 13:00
Location: B3, Brinellvägen 23, Stockholm
Doctoral student: Giovanni Calzolari , Hållbara byggnader
2025-09-26T13:00:00.000+02:00 2025-09-26T13:00:00.000+02:00 Improving built environment aerodynamics with deep learning (Public defences of doctoral theses) B3, Brinellvägen 23, Stockholm (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)Improving built environment aerodynamics with deep learning (Public defences of doctoral theses)