Magnus Rönn

Researcher at Building Design

From 2017, Magnus Rönn is affiliated to Building Design, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at Chalmers. Magnus is vice president of the Nordic Association of Architectural Research, NAF, and chief editor of the Nordic Journal of Architectural Research, NJAR. The scientific journal is in Norway, Denmark and Finland ranked as a publication at international level (Level 2).

In 1998 Magnus Rönn was appointed Associate professor at the School of Architecture, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH. He has worked as a researcher and teacher at KTH during 1995-2016 at advanced level, in doctoral courses and have been responsible and for continuing education. The courses have been focusing on (a) quality in architecture and urban design, (b) architectural evaluation and (c) architectural competitions as theory and professional practice. Magnus has organised and participated in scientific conferences on the competition in architecture and urban design. He has published several anthologies and theme issues about competitions in scientific journals.

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2024

Inside the Jury Room: A Report on the Theory and Practice of Selecting a Winning Design

Magnus Rönn, Anna Braide, Christian Koch
Report - Chalmers University of Technology
2024

Direktanvisningar som verktyg för accelererade klimatlösningar i kommunalt samhällsbygge.

Magnus Rönn, Christian Koch
Report - Chalmers University of Technology
2024

Klimatsmart arkitektur - fasader med återbruk som designprincip

Magnus Rönn, Anna Braide, Christian Koch
Bygg och teknik. Vol. 2024 (2), p. 18-20
Magazine article
2023

Design Developer Competitions in Härryda - From Programming to Implementation

Magnus Rönn
Architectural Reserach in Finland. Vol. Vol. 6 (2022 No 1), p. 27-52
Journal article
2023

Markanvisningstävlingen som verktyg i strategisk utveckling - sammanfattande slutsatser

Magnus Rönn, Christian Koch
Report - Centre for Management of the Built Environment (CMB)
2023

Markanvisningstävlingen som verktyg i strategisk utveckling: Del 3. Resultat, erfarenheter och slutsatser

Magnus Rönn, Christian Koch
Report - Chalmers University of Technology
2023

EDITORS’ NOTES ON STRATEGIES FOR PUBLISHING RESEARCH IN ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES

Magnus Rönn, Sten Gromark, Marius Fiskevold
Nordic Journal of Architectural Research. Vol. 35 (1), p. 4-15
Other text in scientific journal
2023

Kan vi tävla fram den gröna omställningen?

Magnus Rönn, Christian Koch
Other
2023

Building Companies in Design Built Competition aiming at circularity

Magnus Rönn, Christian Koch
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 39TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Paper in proceeding
2023

INTRODUCTION

Magnus Rönn, Anne Elisabeth Toft
CONCEPTS OF TRANSFORMATION, p. 7-16
Book chapter
2022

Markanvisningstävlingen som verktyg i strategisk utveckling: Del 2. Arrangörens erfarenheter

Magnus Rönn, Christian Koch
Report - Chalmers University of Technology
2022

Markanvisningstävlingen som verktyg i strategisk utveckling: Del 1 Arkitekternas erfarenheter

Magnus Rönn, Christian Koch
Report - Chalmers University of Technology
2022

EDITORS’ NOTES THE HOUSING QUESTION OF TOMORROW, 2021-3

Magnus Rönn, Ola Nylander, Daniel Movilla Vega
Nordic journal of architectural research. Vol. 2021 (3), p. 5-12
Other text in scientific journal
2022

Architecture and Compensation : Renewal and Expansion of the City Library in Gothenburg

Magnus Rönn
Compensation in Architecture and Archaeology – On Compensation as a Project, Method and Professional Practice, p. 52-82
Paper in proceeding
2022

Call for Papers: Creation of New Knowledge Dialogues inside and between Disciplines

Magnus Rönn, Anne Elisabeth Toft, Henrik Oxvig et al
Other conference contribution
2022

Editors' Notes: Offering a Visionary Reality - Architecture as Fiction

Magnus Rönn, Sten Gromark, Marius Fiskevold
Nordic Journal of Architectural Research. Vol. 34 (2), p. 4-10
Journal article
2022

Editors' Notes - Singularity of Urban Architectural Research: On Knowledge Co-Production of a Transdisciplinary Kind

Sten Gromark, Marius Fiskevold, Magnus Rönn
Nordic Journal of Architectural Research (NJAR). Vol. 34 (1), p. 5-14
Other text in scientific journal
2022

Introduction (Compensation in Architecture and Archaeology – On Compensation as a Project, Method and Professional Practice)

Athanasios Kouzelis, Magnus Rönn, Helena Teräväinen
Compensation in Architecture and Archaeology – On Compensation as a Project, Method and Professional Practice, p. 5-20
Book chapter
2022

Northernness

Anne Elisabeth Toft, Magnus Rönn
Proceedings (editor)
2021

Approaches and Methods in Architectural Research

Magnus Rönn, Anne Elisabeth Toft, C A Morgan Andersson
Edited book
2021

The quandaries of design developer competitions

Christian Koch, Stefan Christoffer Gottlieb, Magnus Rönn et al
Proceedings of the 37th Annual ARCOM Conference, ARCOM 2021, p. 664-673
Paper in proceeding
2021

Editors' notes 2021-2

Magnus Rönn, Sten Gromark, Marius Fiskevold
Nordic Journal of Architectural Research. Vol. 2021-2 (2021-2), p. 5-13
Other text in scientific journal
2021

Nordic Journal of Architectural Research 1-2021, Editors´notes

Magnus Rönn, Madeleine Granvik, Marius Fiskevold
Nordic Journal of Architectural Research (No 1-2021), p. 5-12
Other text in scientific journal
2020

Introduction

Magnus Rönn, Benjamin Grahn Danielson
Cultural heritage compensation: Approaches to transformation of sites with cultural values and architectural qualities, p. 3-31
Book chapter
2020

Vetenskaplig slutrapport

Magnus Rönn
Other
2020

Introduction

Magnus Rönn, Anne Elisabeth Torft, Ari Hynynen et al
Proceedings Series 2020-1 (2020-1), p. 7-14
Paper in proceeding
2020

Editor's comments, NJAR 2020-2

Magnus Rönn, Daniel Koch, Madeleine Granvik
Nordic Journal of Architectural Research. Vol. 2020 (2), p. 2-12
Other text in scientific journal
2020

Editor's comments, NJAR 2020-1

Magnus Rönn, Daniel Koch, Madeleine Granvik
Nordic Journal of Architectural Research. Vol. 2020 (1), p. 5-8
Other text in scientific journal
2020

Från FoU-ansökningar till markanvisningstävlingar

Magnus Rönn, Anna Braide, Christian Koch et al
Report - Chalmers University of Technology
2019

Reflecting Histories and Directing Futures

Magnus Rönn, Anne Elisabeth Toft, Even Smith Wergeland
Edited book
2019

ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITIONS IN LATVIA

Magnus Rönn
Nordisk arkitekturforskning (2), p. 123-130
Magazine article
2019

Det går att bygga billigare - politikerna har nyckeln

Magnus Rönn
Göteborgs-Posten (GP). Vol. 2019-01-10
Magazine article
2019

EDITORS’ NOTES

Magnus Rönn, Daniel Koch, Madeleine Granvik
Nordisk arkitekturforskning. Vol. 2-2019 (2-20195), p. 5-7
Other text in scientific journal
2019

Design Developer Competition in Stockholm: A case study on innovation, architecture, and affordable housing

Magnus Rönn
ENQ (Enquiry) the ARCC Journal of Architectural Research. Vol. Volyme 16 (No 1), p. 15-28
Journal article
2019

Arkitektur, kulturvärde och kompensation

Magnus Rönn
Report - The Cultural Landscape
2018

EDITORS’ NOTES 3-2018

Magnus Rönn, Madeleine Granvik, Daniel Koch
Other
2018

Editors’ Notes

Magnus Rönn, Madeleine Granvik, Daniel Koch
Nordic Journal of Architectural Research (2), p. 5-7
Other text in scientific journal
2018

Så bygger vi billigare bostäder

Magnus Rönn
Stadsbyggnad (Nr 2), p. 18-20
Magazine article
2018

Developer Competition as a Means for Combining Cost and Design

Magnus Rönn
Doughnuts to muffins, 30 year of Urban Planning, p. 34-43
Book chapter
2018

Experimenting within Swedish Competitions

Magnus Rönn
The competition Grind, p. 71-84
Book chapter
2018

Design Developer Competition. A study on innovation, architecture and affordable housing, Stockholm

Magnus Rönn
Competition Culture in Europe: Voices, p. 103-109
Book chapter
2017

Cultural Heritage: Changing Ideas on Compensation in Planning

Magnus Rönn, Stig Swedberg, Benjamin Grahn Danielson
Architectural Research in Finland. Vol. 1 (1), p. 75-92
Journal article
2017

Kvaliteten vid arkitekttävlingar hotad

Magnus Rönn
Arkitekten : tidning för Arkitektförbundet. Vol. 2017 (8 juni)
Magazine article
2017

Three restricted developer competitions – experiences from Sweden

Magnus Rönn
Nordic Experiences of Sustainable Planning: Policy and Practice, p. 213-240
Book chapter
2017

URBAN DESIGN IN THE CITY OF HELSINGBORG: THE CONFLICTING INTERESTS OF MOBILITY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE IN A CONTEMPORARY PROJECT

Magnus Rönn
URBAN MOBILITY – ARCHITECTURES, GEOGRAPHIES AND SOCIAL SPACE. Vol. 2017 (1), p. 127-156
Paper in proceeding
2017

URBAN MOBILITY – ARCHITECTURES, GEOGRAPHIES AND SOCIAL SPACE

Magnus Rönn, Anne Elisabeth Toft
Edited book
2016

Architectural Competitions as Institution and Process

Jonas E Andersson, Gerd Bloxham Zettersten, Magnus Rönn
Edited book
2016

DESIGN VERSUS ECONOMY: ON PREQUALIFICATION IN DEVELOPER COMPETITIONS

Magnus Rönn
. Vol. 2016 (No 1), p. 59-85
Paper in proceeding
2016

ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITIONS FOR CARE AND CAREGIVING

Magnus Rönn, Jonas E Andersson
Cure and Care. Healing Spaces Then and Now
Book chapter
2016

The Architectural Competition and the Concept of ‘The Client Regime’ – from requirement in invitation to selection of design teams

Magnus Rönn
Architectural Competition as Institution and Process, p. 187-221
Book chapter
2016

AESTHETICS – THE UNEASY DIMENSION IN ARCHITECTURE

Magnus Rönn, Anne Elisabeth Torft
Edited book
2015

ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN FOR THE AGEING SOCIETY, Review

Magnus Rönn
Nordisk arkitekturforskning. Vol. 5 (4), p. 121-122
Other text in scientific journal
2010

The Architectural Competition. Research Inquiries and Experiences

Magnus Rönn, A. Reza Kazemian, Jonas E Andersson
Edited book
2007

On Quality Judgment in Architecture

Magnus Rönn
Noridisk Kulturpolitisk tidskrift (1:2007), p. 23-42
Journal article

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Showing 2 research projects

2021–2023

Design developer competition as tool for climate adaptation in building -innovative solutions for dwellings

Magnus Rönn Building Design
VINNOVA

1 publication exists
2020–2020

Innovative local dwelling development - design developer competitions as professional laboratory

Christian Koch Construction Management
Anna Braide Building Design
Stefan Gottlieb Construction Management
Magnus Rönn Building Design
Formas

1 publication exists
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