HouseEurope! wants to create incentives that make renovation the new norm. This will boost the renovation market and give new value to what is already there. The goal is to preserve homes and communities, ensure a fairer and more local building industry, save energy and resources, and preserve our memories and stories. HouseEurope! need 1 million signatures for laws to protect affordable housing and the climate.
Read more at houseeurope.eu
UnFashion Show 2025. Friday 17 October, 2025 at 16:00 - 17:00.

A choreographed performance by year 1 students exploring how movement can act as a conscious tool of design
A choreographed performance by year 1 students exploring how movement can act as a conscious tool of design
Watch and listen to students of the Master's Programme in Architecture and Urban Design talk about their experiences
Student Work
Design Studios 2025/26

UMA supports House Europe!
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From the Rhine and Nile to the Ume River – Cornelia Redeker is shaping tomorrow’s cities
PROFILE. Architect and urban planner Cornelia Redeker draws on the landscape to help cities adapt to climate change. Her research explores how smart water use and cultivation can reduce our ecological footprint – but also bring people closer together.
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Architecture Programme (300 credits)
Watch and listen to students of the Architecture Programme talk about their experiences

“The most exciting full-time activity of my life”
PROFILE What is like to study at the Umeå School of Architecture? What has made the strongest impression on you? And what do new students need to know? These are some of the questions Frida Block has answered. She completed her Master’s at the Umeå School of Architecture in 2023.
Summer Courses 2025

Rural Futures: Design-Build in Northern Sweden
Rural Futures: Design-Build in Northern Sweden. Image: Vännäs kommun

DesignBuild: Architecture for Resilience in Northern Climate Zones
Design-Build: Architecture for Resilience in Northern Climate Zones. Image: Maja Hallén
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UMA TALKS
UMA TALKS AND ROUNDTABLE CONVERSATIONS
The UMA Talks are a free and accessible series of events. The series is devoted to advancing architectural discourse from both an international perspective and local perspective, and strives to enable the public, students, teachers, and researchers both within architecture and from other fields to get insight to and participate in the educational activities and academic research taking place at Umeå School of Architecture. Theorist, practitioners, artists, and other relevant guests are invited to speak or to participate in roundtable conversations or similar formats.
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