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Lund Architecture Symposium

Lund Architecture Symposium (LAS) is a forum for international knowledge exchange and development, where disciplines and professions are given the opportunity to meet to explore and debate methods and approaches to learning and action in contemporary and future society building.

By mobilising international cutting-edge expertise in selected subject areas, LAS becomes a forum for academic excellence.

LAS serves several purposes:

  • Gives all students the opportunity to participate in an international symposium.
  • Contributes to increased internationalisation at the department and programme.
  • All students, in all years, participate. They are part of a whole.
  • Contributes to building an academic culture at ABM.
  • Creates a forum for exploring and introducing new trends in the discipline and profession, which contributes to academic excellence and relevance. Develops the skills of researchers, doctoral students and teachers.
  • Creates international references for all students.
  • The school advertises a progressive attitude to the role of architecture in society.
  • The press, industry and faculty are invited. As the symposium is streamed, lectures and debates are made available globally. The School of Architecture and LTH are exposed nationally and internationally.
  • The symposium stimulates interaction. Students have the opportunity to build international networks.
  • Everyone is given the opportunity to take part in research-based and investigative architectural practices, which broadens the students' career paths.
  • It is an opportunity for students, researchers and teachers to meet for mutual knowledge exchange and development.
  • Students participate in the planning and implementation on behalf of the programme.
Handwritten text that says See you there. Illustration.

Save the date for next year's symposium – 10 March 2026! 

Graphic poster for LAS26. Illustration.

Lund Architecture Symposium 10 March 2026 – Revive and Destroy

As societal restructurings embrace the cultural, environmental, and economical values of existing buildings, architects face new challenges in balancing between revival and destruction. Revival expands the architectural design sensibility into a creative, forward-looking act, where political and economic forces shape how we understand value, develop our processes, and operate within the built environment. Yet, its avatar destruction remains deeply entangled with the social and tectonic boundaries of revival, reconceptualizing environments that lack structural or spatial capacity, providing opportunity for intervention when restoration becomes inadequate, wasteful, even reactionary. The 2026 edition of the Lund Architecture Symposium (LAS) explores the emergent role within architectural discipline and practice of mediating the urgency of revival with the necessity of removal. 

Contact

Per-Johan Dahl

Head of Department

per-johan [dot] dahl [at] abm [dot] lth [dot] se (per-johan[dot]dahl[at]abm[dot]lth[dot]se)

Valentina Rapuano

Communication officer

valentina [dot] rapuano [at] abm [dot] lth [dot] se (valentina[dot]rapuano[at]abm[dot]lth[dot]se)

Audience at a lecture LAS25. Photo.
Last updated: 6 Mar 2026 | valentina [dot] rapuano [at] abm [dot] lth [dot] se