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
Research and Impact Day 2026
On 28 May, researchers from the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at KTH gathered to present and discuss research with impact. During parallel sessions, 12 research initiatives were pre...
Read the articleOpening ceremony of poster exhibition
On Monday 25 May, the doctoral students in the School of Architecture and the Built Environment's special initiative Digitalisation and Sustainability met up for the opening ceremony of a poster exhib...
Read the articleTen upper secondary school projects honoured in Sustainable Generation Awards
For the fourth year running, the Sustainable Generation competition was organised, an initiative by the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at KTH and the Företagsam Foundation. The compe...
Read the articleNews
- Research and Impact Day 2026
4 Jun 2026
- Opening ceremony of poster exhibition
4 Jun 2026
- Ten upper secondary school projects honoured in Sustainable Generation Awards
3 Jun 2026
- Poster exhibition about Digitalisation and Sustainability at KTH Library
21 May 2026
- Diploma Days 2026
21 May 2026
Calendar
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Public defences of doctoral theses
Monday 2026-06-15, 13:00
Location: Kollegiesalen, Brinellvägen 8, Stockholm
Video link: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/63443912452
Doctoral student: Kritthana Kimuam , Fastighetsföretagande och finansiella system
2026-06-15T13:00:00.000+02:00 2026-06-15T13:00:00.000+02:00 Navigating resource constraints in biotechnology firms (Public defences of doctoral theses) Kollegiesalen, Brinellvägen 8, Stockholm (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)Navigating resource constraints in biotechnology firms (Public defences of doctoral theses) -
Licentiate seminars
Monday 2026-06-15, 13:00
Location: H1, Teknikringen 33, Stockholm
Video link: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/63024958953
Doctoral student: Elina Merdymshaeva , Hållbarhet, utvärdering och styrning, Environmental Management and Assessment
2026-06-15T13:00:00.000+02:00 2026-06-15T13:00:00.000+02:00 Analysing the effect of tree canopy and urban form on urban surface heat using street IR imagery (Licentiate seminars) H1, Teknikringen 33, Stockholm (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)Analysing the effect of tree canopy and urban form on urban surface heat using street IR imagery (Licentiate seminars) -
Lectures and seminars
Friday 2026-08-28, 14:00
Participating: Qian Wang
Location: W25, Teknikringen 78
2026-08-28T14:00:00.000+02:00 2026-08-28T14:00:00.000+02:00 Buildings as Living Systems (Lectures and seminars) W25, Teknikringen 78 (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)Buildings as Living Systems (Lectures and seminars)