Adria Carbonell Rabassa

Adrià Carbonell is an architect, urban designer, and lecturer at the KTH School of Architecture, where he serves as group leader (gruppchef) at the Division of Architecture, Cities, and Landscapes. He holds a PhD in Architecture, with a specialisation in Urban Design, awarded for his thesis Redistribution by Urban Design: Centrality, Ecology, and Transition in Järvafältet, 1930–2030. His work bridges academic and practice-based research, with a focus on the interplay between architecture, territory, politics, and the environment. Adrià’s research advances a vision of urban design encompassing cities and their broader geographical contexts, seeking a fair distribution of resources in response to the climate crisis. To build sustainable cities, he calls for a territorial approach that reconnects urban and rural landscapes by linking urban form with urban metabolism and socioecological urbanism.

He has previously taught at KU Leuven, Tallinn Tech, Umeå University, and the American University of Sharjah. Adrià is co-founder of the research collaborative Aside, and co-editor of the anthology Infrastructural Love: Caring for Our Architectural Support Systems (Birkhäuser, 2022). His writings have been widely published in magazines, academic journals, and book anthologies (The Journal of Architecture Education, San Rocco, ACE Architecture, City and Environment, ZARCH, Cartha, MONU, Plan, among others).

http://www.aside-rc.net