Umeå School of Architecture

UnFashion Show 2025. Friday 17 October, 2025 at 16:00 - 17:00.

students performing in a dark environment

A choreographed performance by year 1 students exploring how movement can act as a conscious tool of design

Student Work

interior of "silent box", built project by students in wood and recycled materials

The Silent Shelf and The Veil

Design-built projects by students in year 2-3, Studio 2: Closing Loops, 2024

SAUNA

Design-built project by students Summer course: From Concept to Construction, 2024

Trappudden Vindbåk

Design-built project by students Summer course: From Concept to Construction, 2024

BADLANDS. A Rediscovery of a Landscape of Extraction

BADLANDS. A Rediscovery of a Landscape of Extraction by Edvin Högberg. Studio 12.

Utblick! Cinematographic Tectonics + the Deep Urban Dwelling

Utblick! Cinematographic Tectonics + the Deep Urban Dwelling by Lydia Bruhn. Studio 11.

The Servant’s Tale

The Servant’s Tale by Jonathan Andersson. Studio 11.

The Air We Breathe

The Air We Breathe by Tuvalie Juntti. Studio 12.

In defense of HOME.

In defense of HOME by Cecilia Johansson. Studio 11.

Illustration eller bild från studentarbete

Regenerative Infrastructures: Symbiotic Waterscapes The Case of Eutrophication of the Baltic Sea

Regenerative Infrastructures by Deniss Zeile. Studio 12.

The Beastibule Bestiary

The Beastibule Bestiary by Elin Holmberg. Studio 11.

The Permanent Hotel

The Permanent Hotel by Oskar Häggström Germann. Studio 11.

Together for Torbali - Designing Hope and Resilience

Together for Torbali - Designing Hope and Resilience by Ellen Moisio, Benjamin Roobol. Studio 10.

Symposium at Umeå School of Architecture. 10 – 12 June, 2026.

Design Studios 2025/26

UMA 1

FUNDAMENTALS: ARCHITECTURE THROUGH THE BODY

UMA 2-3: Studio 3

Kiruna Paradox – Inhabiting Latitudes: an Architectural Atlas

UMA 2-3: Studio 4

e/merging encounters people/culture/place

UMA 4-5: Studio 11

Radical Domesticities – Housing Goes North

UMA 4-5: Studio 12

THE OUTLANDS: A look into the Post-Industrial Swedish Archipielago

Europe from space by night with text House Europe!

UMA supports House Europe!

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

News

A wooden constructions with shelves of flowers.

When trees become co-actors: art, science, and care in Umeå’s forests

UMA Talks: UMA Alumni – Transforming into Practice

Research day: Exploring Architectural Research Outcomes

Architecture Students Conduct Fieldwork Across Europe and Africa

Funding for new solutions using biomass in cement 3D-printing

Umeå School of Architecture joins New European Bauhaus Initiative

The installation built in wood on site at Storgatan in Luleå

Installation by architecture students & teachers at Storgatan in Luleå

Umeå School of Architecture gets new doctoral programme

Architecture students in workshop on Sustainable recovery of Ukraine

bild av ny ledning på arkitekthögskolan i arkitekthögskolans verkstäder

New Leadership at Umeå School of Architecture

Portrait of Cornelia Redeker, professor in Architecture and Head of Department at Umeå School of Architecture

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.

Read the full story here

Architecture Programme (300 credits)

“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.

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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

Event

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.