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
KTH professor receives prestigious geoscience award
Thanks to research developed by KTH, more than one million people have gained access to safe drinking water with life-saving health benefits. Professor Prosun Bhattacharya has now been awarded one of ...
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Rajib Sinha promoted to Associate Professor (Docent)
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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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- Mechanical Characterisation of Unsaturated Sandy Subgrades
5 Nov 2025
- Dual-Motive Complexity of Sustainable Investments: Exploring Individual Investors' Decision-Making P
5 Nov 2025
- 3D discrete-continuum simulation of differential settlement in ballasted railway transition zones
31 Oct 2025
- KTH professor receives prestigious geoscience award
29 Oct 2025
- Two SEED researchers receive the Formas Career Grant for Early-career Researchers
27 Oct 2025
Calendar
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Public defences of doctoral theses
Friday 2025-11-07, 14:00
Location: public video conference, Kollegiesalen, Brinellvägen 8, Campus
Video link: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/69642823274
Doctoral student: José Everton , Byggnadsmaterial
2025-11-07T14:00:00.000+01:00 2025-11-07T14:00:00.000+01:00 Mechanical Characterisation of Unsaturated Sandy Subgrades Based on Suction-Controlled Repeated Load Triaxial Testing (Public defences of doctoral theses) public video conference, Kollegiesalen, Brinellvägen 8, Campus (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)Mechanical Characterisation of Unsaturated Sandy Subgrades Based on Suction-Controlled Repeated Load Triaxial Testing (Public defences of doctoral theses) -
Licentiate seminars
Thursday 2025-11-13, 13:00
Doctoral student: Carin Segerlind , Fastigheter och byggande
2025-11-13T13:00:00.000+01:00 2025-11-13T13:00:00.000+01:00 The influence of Customer Satisfaction on Bank Earnings (Licentiate seminars) Gradängsalen, rum 5703, plan 5, Teknikringen 1, Campus, public video conference Meeting ID: 378 527 767 519 2 Passcode: fn6eL7RT (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)The influence of Customer Satisfaction on Bank Earnings (Licentiate seminars) -
Public defences of doctoral theses
Friday 2025-11-14, 14:00
Location: F3 (Flodis), Lindstedtsvägen 26 & 28, Stockholm
Video link: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/68961491391
Doctoral student: Klara Müller , Historiska studier av teknik, vetenskap och miljö
2025-11-14T14:00:00.000+01:00 2025-11-14T14:00:00.000+01:00 Quality and the Humanities (Public defences of doctoral theses) F3 (Flodis), Lindstedtsvägen 26 & 28, Stockholm (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)Quality and the Humanities (Public defences of doctoral theses)