Umeå School of Architecture
University of Umeå Sweden
Roemer van Toorn has recently been appointed Theory & Media professor at the Umeå School of Achitecture at the University of Umeå Sweden.
More information on the program will be available in September/October 2010.
The Umeå School of Architecture (UMA) was founded in 2009 as the fourth academic school in Sweden providing a professional degree in architecture. Unlike the other Architectural Schools in Sweden, UMA has a spoken policy of a social, political and sustainable development of architecture through an integrated idea of design, and aims to grow into an international laboratory of experimental architectural development. The Danish architect Peter Kjaer, who has been the former dean of the Aarhus school of architecture, is appointed rector of the school.
The five-year architectural program started in fall 2009 at the provisionary premises in the city centre of Umeå. Before the academic year starts in September 2010, the school will move to a new building close to the Umeå Institute of Design and the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, in the area that will successively expand to be Umeå Arts Campus. A master Degree program will start in fall 2010, with an additional PhD p rograms in the near future.
