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
Competence centres
- Centre for Anthropocene History
- Centre for Transport Research Environment with Novel Perspectives (TRENoP)
- Centre for Future Seafood, Blue Food
- Centre for Traffic Research (CTR)
- KTH Center for total defence
- KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory (EHL)
- Road2Science
- Sustainable Finance Lab
- WaterCentre@KTH
Congratulations to Olga Kordas – Associate professor KTH and Program director of Viable Cities
Every year, the Swedish magazine Aktuell Hållbarhet compiles a list – Sweden’s 101 Most Influential Sustainability Leaders – featuring people who have done more than could be expected to help create a...
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Lower consumption – same satisfaction?
How do environmental measures based on “sufficiency”—that is, living well with less—actually affect the user experience? This can be studied using the Sufficiency-LCA method, an extension of conventio...
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New article in Nature identifies global gaps in precipitation monitoring networks
A new research article in Nature by guest professor at KTH Gia Destouni and colleagues, identifies major global gaps in precipitation monitoring networks. These gaps hinder climate change impact asses...
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- Congratulations to Olga Kordas – Associate professor KTH and Program director of Viable Cities
1 Apr 2026
- Lower consumption – same satisfaction?
30 Mar 2026
- “It is about seeing the knowledge and competence at KTH that could be of use to the region”
27 Mar 2026
- New article in Nature identifies global gaps in precipitation monitoring networks
25 Mar 2026
- New edition of "Hållbar utveckling – en introduktion för ingenjörer och andra problemlösare"
25 Mar 2026
Calendar
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Monday 2026-04-20, 16:00 - 18:00
Location: Salongen, KTH Biblioteket, Osquars backe 31
2026-04-20T16:00:00.000+02:00 2026-04-20T18:00:00.000+02:00 Book launch: “Neutrality's Empire: Swedish Colonialism in the Industrial Age” (Others) Salongen, KTH Biblioteket, Osquars backe 31 (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)Book launch: “Neutrality's Empire: Swedish Colonialism in the Industrial Age” (Others)