Jonas Runberger

Jonas Runberger, M.Arch. PhD, Associate Professor in Architectural Technology at the KTH School of Architecture.

Jonas has over 20 years of experience as a practitioner, educator, and researcher, holding a PhD (2012), a Licentiate Degree (2008) and a Masters degree (2004) from KTH School of Architecture (Stockholm). He has extensive experience in project specific innovation, where computational methods are developed and applied within architectural commissions, as well as education and training of architectural design and computation for students and practitioners. His practice has involved the relation between design techniques, architectural production and experiential effect, with an emphasis on the impact of digital technology on both experimental and conventional practice.

He most recently held a research position at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden in the unit for Architecture and Urban Planning focusing on industry integrated research & development (2024 – 2025). He was previously Head of Dsearch – a computational design development environment at White Arkitekter (Stockholm 2010 – 2024) where he led a team of specialists engaged in development within commissions, generic design methodologies, and research projects. He and his team were engaged in over 100 architectural commissions and research projects, and Jonas also had several strategic roles within White Research Lab, the R&D division within the practice.

Jonas was also the Professor in Digital Design in Architecture at Chalmers Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering (Gothenburg 2016 – 2023), where he led several research projects and was engaged as a teacher in the Masters Program. Previous academic positions include an Adjunct Professorship in Applied Digital Design (2014 – 2017), and Lecturer (Adjunkt, 2013 – 2017) at the KTH in Stockholm, Unit Master of Diploma Unit 16 of the Architectural Association School of Architecture (London 2008 – 2010), a Lecturer at the Architecture & Digital Design Systems Masters program at London Metropolitan University (London 2008 – 2009), and an assistant in the Machinic Processes in Architectural Design course at ETHZ (Zürich 2001).