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About LAS

Lund Architecture Symposium (LAS) is an annual symposium at Lund University’s School of Architecture dedicated to explore architecture’s engagement with urgent topics, establishing a realm for spatial practices to exchange ideas and approaches for the design of contemporary and future environments. LAS mobilizes an international array of progressive architectural production to activate a space where academics and practitioners meet in knowledge development and debate. The symposium is a forum for students and faculty at the Department of Architecture and the Built Environment to investigate and introduce new tendencies in discipline and practice, which serve to advance academic excellence in the rapid pace of change that characterizes architecture and urban development in the contemporary.

Save the date! 11 March 2025 | Transformations in Architecture

Transformation in the contemporary architectural discourse does not only encompass the animation of form and program, which at the turn of the last century was progressed by deconstructivism and the digital turn. Applicable within aspects of ecology, economy, and culture, transformation has today evolved into a pervasive concept both advanced and abused within the complexity of forces that drive the green transition. To implement visionary prospects for societal change, architecture must contribute with skills and attitudes feasible to mobilize a wide array of tangible solutions for different scales and contexts. The 2025 edition of Lund Architecture Symposium (LAS25) takes transformation as a concept of scrutiny to explore generative positions and action points within the architecture of today and tomorrow.

The planning for LAS25 is currently underway and we will present the invited speakers and program as we go along. 

This open event will take place in School of Architecture at Lund University, A-building, Exhibition Hall, Klas Anshelms väg 16, Lund. 

Confirmed keynote speakers by 1 November 2024 

Contact

Per-Johan Dahl

Head of Department of Architecture and Built Environment

E-mail: per-johan.dahl@abm.lth.se

Henrik Almquist 

Programme coordinator, architect 

E-mail: henrik.almquist@abm.lth.se

Helene Sveningsson

Communication officer/coordinator

E-mail: helene.sveningsson@abm.lth.se