School of Architecture and the Built Environment

The School of Architecture and the Built Environment is one of five schools at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

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.

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Research centres

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Rapid Urbanization: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Urban Transition in Developing Countries

Kyle Farrell wanted to better understand the dynamics underpinning the unprecedented growth of cities in developing countries. He found that changing macrolevel circumstances, particularly those related to economic and demographic trends, have accelerated the urbanization process presenting new challenges for managing the growth of cities.

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Producing Publicness: Investigating the dialectics of unintended consequences in urban design

Elahe Karimnia wanted to understand and solve the gap between design intentions and outcomes in relation to quality of publicness in urban spaces. She found that rather than being a problem to solve, the gap provides a potential that should be welcomed.

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Monitoring and modeling hydrological impacts on roads and resulting pollution on groundwater

Hedi Rasul's research aims to increase awareness of hydrological conditions of water and solute transport in road layers down to the groundwater in order to minimise environmental impacts during construction and operation.

News

Sverker Sörlin appointed to the FWF Scientific Advisory Board
15 May 2019
The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) has established an international Scientific Advisory Board to challenge its funding activities with state-of-the-art e...
Powerful near real-time monitoring tool enables response to Mozambique floods
26 Mar 2019
Flooding and damage from the tropical cyclone Idai is being tracked in near real time in Mozambique with a method developed at KTH Royal Institute of ...

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Filtration System for On-site Wastewater Treatment: Experience from Modelling and Experimental Investigations

20
Sep

Public defences of doctoral theses

Friday 2019-09-20, 10:00

Location: Kollegiesalen, Brinellvägen 8, KTH

Doctoral student: Rajabu Hamisi Mohamed

2019-09-20T10:00:00.000+02:00 2019-09-20T10:00:00.000+02:00 Filtration System for On-site Wastewater Treatment: Experience from Modelling and Experimental Investigations (Public defences of doctoral theses) Filtration System for On-site Wastewater Treatment: Experience from Modelling and Experimental Investigations (Public defences of doctoral theses)
Groundwater Resources in Hard Rock Coastal Terrains: Insights into Heterogeneity and Spatial Variability

20
Sep

Public defences of doctoral theses

Friday 2019-09-20, 14:00

Location: F3, Lindstedsvägen 26, KTH

Doctoral student: Robert Earon

2019-09-20T14:00:00.000+02:00 2019-09-20T14:00:00.000+02:00 Groundwater Resources in Hard Rock Coastal Terrains: Insights into Heterogeneity and Spatial Variability (Public defences of doctoral theses) Groundwater Resources in Hard Rock Coastal Terrains: Insights into Heterogeneity and Spatial Variability (Public defences of doctoral theses)

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