LECTURE:
12th April 2010

The Humane in Urban Planning (The Human Scale):
Public and Private Spaces which People Identify with

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EXTRACTS CURRICULUM VITAE

1965 - 2010 Practising architect, planner, urban designer, lecturer and jury member in England, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria and other European countries

1965 - 1968 With Bengt Lindroos

1968 - 1987  With Ralph Erskine

1981 - 2002 Partner of ARKEN Arkitekter AB in Stockholm. At Arken he was in charge of a major mixed 100.000 sqm development in Skarpnäck (Stockholm)

1983The Kasper Salin Prize, Sweden’s most prestigious architectural award, is given to the Skarpnäck project.

1985 The Skarpnäck project is exhibited in Paris (Centre Pompidou), Albi, Toulouse

1991-2008 Member of the Swedish Committee of EUROPAN

1991-2004 A full time professorial chair in Architecture at LTH, Lund University

1995 First prize in an invited urban and landscape design competition for Malchow, Germany (with Arken Arkitekter)

1997 - 2001 On leave from the chair to fulfill the commission as the principal exhibition architect, urban planner and programme co-ordinator of the European housing expo on sustainability, Bo01 City of Tomorrow in Malmö 2001

2003 - Member of the Board of the House of Design in Hellefors (Sweden) which, on a basis of qualified international co-operation, examines and discusses the role of sustainable design in society.

2004 - Senior Consultant at GEHL Architects ApS, Urban Quality Consultants, Copenhagen

2004 - Own practice in Saltsjöbaden (Stockholm)

1974 - Under the heading “The Humane in Architecture” a basic theory is developed, complementary to that of functionalism, on our sensory and emotional needs in the physical environment. The theory has become a founding stone for my own work as an architect and planner, and it is presented in a lecture (with many slides) at colleges and universities, for trade and industry, for cities and towns, as well as in public education.