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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
Researchers on both sides of the Atlantic, together, will exchange ideas, decide and build the research that will be conducted based on what Stockholm city and other collaborative actors need
KTH and MIT in research collaboration
5 Mar 2019
KTH together with MIT, one of the world’s highest-ranking universities, are now entering into a research collaboration around urban planning and devel...
