Stig L Andersson Email & Phone Number

Stig L. Andersson founded SLA in 1994. Having studied nuclear physics, Japanese culture, and chemistry before becoming an architect, Andersson graduated from The Royal Danish School of Architecture in 1986.From 1986-1989 Andersson moved to Japan with Japanese ministerial research funds. Andersson was particularly interested in Japanese culture’s relationship with substance, space, and changeability – fields he has integrated and developed in his own practice since 1994.Stig L. Andersson is SLA’s founding partner. Beginning as a (purely) landscape architectural practice, SLA has developed into an international interdisciplinary organization working with nature-based design, landscape architecture, and city planning. Renowned for his sensuous and poetic work, Andersson combines unique amenity values based on the aesthetics of nature with cutting-edge urban design.Stig L. Andersson is a professor in aesthetic design and is a much sought-after lecturer and teacher at universities and architecture schools in Europe, Asia, and the United States.Stig L. Andersson has received numerous national and international awards, including The European Landscape Award, The RIBA Award, Nykredit’s Architecture Prize, and the C.F. Hansen Medal - the highest national honour given to a Danish architect awarded by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.In 2023, Stig L. Andersson was awarded the Ny Carlsbergfondet Honorary Prize for his “lifelong service in the arts” and his “decisive impact as an important and visionary thinker within the field of landscape architecture and city development” - as only the sixth recipient in the foundation’s 120-year-long history.

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  Founding Partner

  Sla

  Oct 1994 - Present