Please join on us Wednesday, April 29 at 10.30 CET for our spring 2026 guest lecture.
ono architectuur : Snapshots in time
In a lecture on the transformation of an office building, a brutalist social housing block, a protected historic town hall, and a private residence, we provide insights into the design processes and reflections after completion. We highlight the importance of renovation projects in their capacity to carry buildings into a new era, only to then question that importance again by framing them as snapshots in time. We examine the projects through a research lens, addressing themes such as art, uncertainty, paint, inhabitation, ecology and time.
ono architectuur was founded in 2007 and is led by Gert Somers, Jonas Lindekens, and Sara Verleye within a diverse team of around ten architects.
The work ranges from scenography, interiors, and private homes to larger-scale housing developments, public buildings, and complex projects involving reuse and protected heritage. ono architectuur is involved in various collaborations for new urban building blocks. The architecture engages with the city, the village, and the landscape. Not infrequently, the design focus shifts toward giving specific form and meaning to contemporary tectonics. An in-depth knowledge of making leads to a clear and comprehensible way of building.
Lecture by: Gert Somers
The lecture takes place on zoom and is open to @beforeandafterbuilding faculty and students, as well as to friends of the studio - DM if interested.
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Our spring 2026 1st year master studio will explore the thematic of Obsolescence where we will specifically work with an office building in central Gothenburg. How do we understand and counter Obsolescence through acts of transformation?
Kungsgatan 12-16, 1972, Semrén Arkitektkontor. Property owned by Vasakronan.
Faculty: Naima Callenberg, Peter Christensson
2nd year master studio fall 2025. The unfinished house II.
Student work by Artur Maciejowski (1-2), Anneke Sandow (3-5), August Bjønnes (6), Lucas Hald (7), Hilma Åkesson (8), Gabriel Kant (9-10), Vilma Mases (11), Shevani Shanmugham & Celina Ulrich (12).
Faculty: Daniel Norell and Sara Olsson.
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Our fall 2025 2nd year master studio analysed and explored ”unfinished” houses that widen architecture’s material and temporal framework, including
Hexenhaus, Bad Karlshafen, Germany, 1986-
Upper Lawn Solar Pavilion, UK, 1959-
Architect: Alison and Peter Smithson
Layered drawings by students:
Signe Larsson, Artur Maciejowski, Jonna Pestrea
Vilma Mases, Kim Pruner, Jasmin Abarkan, Celina Ulrich
August Bjønnes, Gabriel Kant, Hanjin Liu
Samuel Gelfgren, Hilma Åkesson, Reem Tahhan
Anneke Sandow, Shevani Shanmugham, Lucas Hald
Faculty: Daniel Norell and Sara Olsson
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Join us for the publication launch to conclude the studio course Building on Context! The theme for the course this year has been periphery and together we have explored questions about context in relation to the area of Marieholm, Gothenburg. Thank you to all students and guest! Looking forward to discuss and celebrate your great work! Faculty: Naima Callenberg and Peter Christensson
Please join us on Tuesday, December 02 at 16.00 for our second 2025-2026 guest lecture.
SECRETARY: Beyond Human Scale: Thinking Architecture at the Scale of the Population
How is architecture to act, in times of rupture, collapse, and change? Against a backdrop of multiple permacrises (housing, climate, austerity) and accelerating automation and centralization within architecture, how can small practices provide a space for reflection, risk, critique, and collective dreaming? Operating across a range of media, Secretary’s work explores the capacity of architecture to support a dignified life at the scale of the population in the late welfare states of the twenty-first century. In this lecture, Helen Rix Runting speaks to the possibility to make architecture that is a political, experimental, and infrastructural at more-than-human scales.
Helen Rix Runting is an architectural theorist and urban designer. Her work explores how architecture organizes life at the scale of the population. Helen writes, edits, reviews, and makes objects and research in relation to this theme; co-author of 14,495 Flats and co-editor of Urbanizing Suburbia and Architecture and Feminisms, she holds a PhD in Architecture from KTH (2018). She is co-curator of the Bruges Triennial 2027.
The lecture takes place onsite at Chalmers School of Architecture in Kunskapstrappan.
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Impressions from today’s presentation of phase 1 of the studio project for the 1st year master which is exploring questions relating to context, specifically in relation to and through the lens of the periphery. On display: Context encounters in the form of an Atlas. Thank you to our guest @markusolofbergstrom and to all students for great discussions thorughout the day!
Faculty: Naima Callenberg and Peter Christensson
Please join on us Wednesday, November 26 at 16.00 CET for our first fall 2025 guest lecture.
PARABASE: Slow events
Buildings are the material evidence of a social and economic history and cannot be understood as autonomous forms. Circular strategies such as reuse, repurposing, and recycling challenge conventional modes of production and consumption. These methods recover waste, question standardized construction processes, and combat decay by giving materials a second life, encouraging a renewed reading of our built environment. Despite their urgency and relevance, circular practices still struggle to find a solid foothold in architectural discourse. We seek to reflect on how these strategies can be linked to broader cultural ambitions and rooted more deeply in architecture.
PARABASE is an entity registered by Carla Ferrando and Pablo Garrido Arnaiz in 2023, after working for offices such as Herzog & de Meuron and Foster & Partners. PARABASE combines the development and construction of architectural projects with research and teaching. They have previously taught at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, were workshop leaders at the Porto Academy 2025 and are currently visiting professors at the ETH Zürich.
The lecture takes place on zoom and is open to @beforeandafterbuilding faculty and students, as well as to friends of the studio - DM if interested.
@parabase.eu
Image: PARABASE
Our fall 2025 2nd year master studio continues to explore an ”unfinished” house that widens architecture’s material and temporal framework.
Hexenhaus, Bad Karlshafen, Germany, 1986-2002.
Architect: Alison and Peter Smithson.
Photograph: Anna and Eugeni Bach.
Faculty: Daniel Norell and Sara Olsson.
