Fredrik Nilsson
Fredrik Nilsson is Chalmers’ Vice President of Campus development. Fredrik Nilsson’s research is directed to developments in contemporary architecture, architectural theory, architectural methodology and practice, with special interest in the epistemology of architecture and interaction between theory, conceptual thinking and design practice. Important aims are contributions to reinforced exchange between research and architectural practice.
He is an architect and Professor of Architectural Theory. Fredrik Nilsson was Head of Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering 2018-2021, and for the Department of Architecture 2013-2017. He has also been Head of Research in Practice at Älvstranden Utveckling AB 2017-2018 and has a background as Partner at White Arkitekter, where he worked 2000-2017 and was Head of Research and Development 2007-2014.
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The Changing Shape of Architecture: Further Cases of Integrating Research and Design in Practice
atelier d'architecture autogérée: Transgressive Practices for Resilient Urban Agency
Theory and Profession. The need for frameworks connecting the profession, academia and society
Schmidt Hammer Lassen: Giving and Gaining - Co-creating Knowledge and Exploring Practice at SHL
MVRDV + The Why Factory: Factoring the why in design practice
The soft technologies of urban development – the need for a broader technology concept
Perspectives on Research Assessment in Architecture, Music and the Arts. Discussing Doctorateness
Four Arrows of Knowledge. Some Notes on Practice-Based Research
The Art of Assessment - Focusing Research Assessment from Different Perspectives
The Changing Shape of Practice. Integrating Research and Design in Architecture
Creating Visions for the Future with a Brace against the Past
Exploring architectural knowledge by making and reconstructing historical artefacts
Chalmers School of Architecture Yearbook 2016. History of architecture. Questioning architecture
Brist på kunskap eller brist på överföring av kunskap?
Arkitektonisk kunskap utforskad genom att göra och rekonstruera historiska artefakter
Introduction: The changing shape of architectural practice and research
Chalmers School of Architecture. Emerging from Strong Profiles and Open Dialogues.
Exploring Future Architecture - On the Threshold between Education, Research and Practice
Collaboration is not enough! What do architects and designers bring?
'Doctorateness' in the Making Disciplines. What do experts say on the issue?
Making as Architectural Thinking and Practice
Research as a Driving Force for Change: On Triadic Practice in Architecture
The Concept of the "Wheelchair"
Design Education, Practice, and Research: On Building a Field of Inquiry
Architectural Laborations. Setting up research as strategic tools in architectural practice
Building a culture of doctoral scholarship in architecture and design. A Belgian-Scandinavian case
[ur ett pågående samtal] Om Arkitektur. Andra, omarbetade och utvidgade utgåvan.
Det osynligas framträdande. Om form, formationer och formerande krafter
Progressiv bostadsarkitektur. Tendenser och strategier i europeiskt bostadsbyggande
Expertgruppens kommentarer till projektrapporterna inom konstnärlig forskning
An Emerging Research Culture – Building Doctoral Scholarship in Architecture and Design
Words, Images, and Rhetoric. Communication and Production of Knowledge by Design
Visual thinking as bridge building – Testing a pedagogical concept, drawing some new insights
From Control to Design. Parametric/Algorithmic Architecture
Building a culture of doctoral scholarship in architecture and design. A Belgian-Scandinavian case
Some notes on practice-based architectural design research: Four ‘arrows’ of knowledge
Bostadens rum. Chalmersarkitekter om bostadens kvalitéer
Forming Knowledge – On Architectural Knowledge and the Practice of its Production
Design, Rhetoric, Knowledge – some notes on grasping, influencing and construction the world
Innovativt bostadsbyggande? Om några tendenser i europeisk bostadsarkitektur
New Technology, New Tectonics? - On Architectural and Structural Expressions with Digital Tools
Architectural Objectiles – Architecture, form, meaning and experience in the digital era
Utforska med arkitektur. Transdisciplinaritet, arkitektonisk design och kunskapsproduktion
Thinking, Doing, Writing, Researching – The Brussels experiments in forms and processes of knowledge
Knowledge Production by Architectural Practice
Recension av 'Verb Connections, Matters, Processing'
Architecture beyond the predictable?
Knowledge in Urban Situations and Architectural Design Practice
Architectural Design. A Strategy for Understanding
Forming Knowledge - On Architectural Knowledge and the Practice of its Production
Resanderum med elegant anslag och osäker detaljering
Recension av 'Véronique Patteauw (red): Reading MVRDV'
Philosophy and the Development of Architectural Thinking
Transdisciplinarity and Architectural Design
Recension av 'Winy Maas/MVRDV: FiveMinutesCity'
Bygga arkitekturtänkanden. Tolkande, demonterande, aktivt konstruerande
Recension av 'Arkitekturkritik, Arkitekturmuseets årsbok 2002'
Virtualitet, nya media och arkitektonisk fom
Recension av 'Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping'
Konstruerandet av verkligheter: Gilles Deleuze, tänkande och arkitektur
Recension av 'Bibliotek och arkitektur. Byggnader, rum, samlingar'
Från outsider mot allt högre höjder
Recension av 'Architecture of the Information Society'
Recension av 'The Anaesthetics of Architecture'
Recension av 'Ecstacity. Ingångar till en ny urbanism'
Arkitekturen skapar rum för lek med tiden
Korrugerad plast - ger himmelsk transparens i ny holländsk arkitektur
Arkitekten som gör historien synlig
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Mapping, Reflecting and Developing PhD-by-Design Programmes’
Strengthening Architecture and Built Environment Research - SABRE
Nordic Built – Sustainable Transformation and Environmental Design (STED)
Architecture in the Making: Architecture as a Making Discipline and Material Practice