Fredrik Hellberg Email & Phone Number

Spain

Spain

Vienna, Austria

Fredrik Hellberg is professor (Uni.-Prof.) with Lara Lesmes of Studio Space Popular (Architectural Design 2) at the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Studio Statement “Over the past decade, we have focused on the interdependence between the built and virtual environments. Our social lives occur across media—in transmedia spaces, the design and regulation for which nobody takes responsibility—while our community ties online are becoming as valuable and consequential as those offline. In the same way that we fight for the safeguarding of social housing, public space, civic infrastructures, and overall public services, we must take care of the civic dimension of our virtual environments. Schools of architecture can counter the current neoliberal nature of online space, developing tools and theory to ensure fairness, equity, and ethical operability in the intersection of media with the built environment. They can also be the spaces where we imagine alternatives towards responsibility and solidarity in the ways we inhabit our buildings and manage our cities, towns and villages, enabled by media. Building on the legacy of digital exploration over the past 20 years at the I oA die Angewandte, as well as the socially minded architecture and policies of the city of Vienna, the studio will engage with the transmedia reality we inhabit today, not only as architects and urbanists, but also as policymakers, thinkers and activists.” —Lara and Fredrik

Bangkok

Space Popular is directed by Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg, both graduates from the Architectural Association in London (2011). They founded the practice in Bangkok (2013) and have been based in London since 2016. Space Popular creates spaces, objects, and events in both physical and virtual space, concentrating on how the two realms will blend together in the near future. The studio has completed buildings, exhibitions, public artworks, furniture collections, and interiors across Asia and Europe, as well as virtual architecture in the Immersive Internet. Clients, collaborators, and commissioners include national institutions such as The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design –ArkDes, Stockholm, Sweden; Royal Institute of British Architects, London, UK; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea; as well as independent galleries such as MAGAZIN, Vienna, Austria; and Sto Werkstatt, London, UK. Lesmes and Hellberg both have extensive academic experience having taught architectural design design studio since 2011, first at INDA, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, and since 2016 at the Architectural Association in London. They also lecture and teach workshops and seminars in universities across the world. Their current MArch design and research unit at the Architectural Association investigates visions for civic architecture in the virtual realm.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Teaching Master of Architecture Students the design and politics of Virtual Architecture

Segovia, Castilla And Leon, Spain

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Master Research Studio Leader of Browse, The Gathering with Lara Lesmes at John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design

London, England Metropolitan Area

London, United Kingdom

Bangkok

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New Delhi Area, India

Berlin Area, Germany

London, United Kingdom

AArchitecture. The Architectural Association's quarterly release Magazine,

London, United Kingdom

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Stockholm, Sweden

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Aa Diploma With Honours, Architecture

Design, Furniture Design And Manufacturing