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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Public defences of doctoral theses
Friday 2026-05-08, 09:00
Location: D3, Lindstedtsvägen 5, Stockholm
Video link: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/61392203548
Doctoral student: Mikael Andersson , Urbana och regionala studier
2026-05-08T09:00:00.000+02:00 2026-05-08T09:00:00.000+02:00 Mobilising the Sustainable Neighbourhood (Public defences of doctoral theses) D3, Lindstedtsvägen 5, Stockholm (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)Mobilising the Sustainable Neighbourhood (Public defences of doctoral theses) -
Licentiate seminars
Monday 2026-05-11, 10:00
Location: Sahara, Teknikringen 10B, Stockholm
Video link: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/67083499854
Doctoral student: Kristin Malmcrona Friberg , Strategiska hållbarhetsstudier
2026-05-11T10:00:00.000+02:00 2026-05-11T10:00:00.000+02:00 From access to relationship (Licentiate seminars) Sahara, Teknikringen 10B, Stockholm (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)From access to relationship (Licentiate seminars) -
Licentiate seminars
Monday 2026-05-11, 14:00
Location: D37, Lindstedtsvägen 5, Stockholm
Video link: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/66145987135
Doctoral student: Ali Shibli , Geoinformatik
2026-05-11T14:00:00.000+02:00 2026-05-11T14:00:00.000+02:00 Diffusion-Based Learning and Foundation Model Adaptation for Robust Dense Prediction in Earth Observation (Licentiate seminars) D37, Lindstedtsvägen 5, Stockholm (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)Diffusion-Based Learning and Foundation Model Adaptation for Robust Dense Prediction in Earth Observation (Licentiate seminars)