Kristina Fridh
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SENIOR LECTURER
LECTURER
About Kristina Fridh
Kristina Fridh received her Master of Architecture degree in 1987 and her PhD in 2001 at the Department of Architecture, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg. She was also a student in Interior Architecture at Konstindustriskolan, now HDK, in 1985–86. The title of her doctoral thesis is Japanska rum (Japanese Rooms) – also published as a book in 2004. Kristina is now a researcher and the director of studies - doctoral education at HDK.
From 2006 to 2009, she was the project leader of “The Materiality of the Surface”, a research project financed by the Swedish Research Council (VR). The project focused on use of materials connected to different cultures’ conceptions of space, with references to Swedish and Japanese architecture, and glass as a building material. The Japanese architectural offices were Kengo Kuma & Associates and SANAA. Their Swedish counterparts were Wingårdhs and Claesson Koivisto Rune. The research project was presented in the form of an exhibition at the Röhsska Museum and a book was published, Ytans materialitet (The Materiality of the Surface). This project was a continuation of Kristina’s thesis, where traditional and contemporary Japanese architecture was examined, the point of departure being Japanese conceptions of space.
Kristina is part of the network “Architecture in Effect”, a strong research environment in architecture theory and methodology funded by the Swedish research council Formas 2011-2017. Within this framework, she worked on the research project “The Uncompleted Materiality of the Void”, where connections were created between matter and consciousness, starting from a discussion about traditional Japanese expressions for beauty and contemporary architecture in Japan.
Focus in the new research project “Urban Materiality – towards New Collaborations in Textile and Architectural Design” is on the field of textile architecture, and the project is ongoing from 2016 to 2018 with funding from the Swedish Research Council (VR), Artistic Research. The project starts in the question: “What is textile architecture?” The three participants’ fields of competence in this project are textile design and architecture, including acoustics, and the ambition is to build a new interdisciplinary research platform for collaborations in textile architecture in a joint research environment. In the project, textile and architectural structures will be designed and explored to melt them into something new, with benefits from the two fields, and to show new applications for the field of textile design on larger scales in urban environments, which could enlarge and enrich both fields.
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Textil arkitektur – nya möjligheter att skapa bättre akustik i urbana
miljöer
Kristina Fridh, Margareta Zetterblom, Paula Femenias
Bygg & Teknik - 2020-01-01 -
En – Interacting Spaces in Japanese
Architecture
Kristina Fridh
Japan's Past and Present, edited by Kurt Almqvist & Yukiko Duke Bergman - 2020-01-01 -
Textile architecture – about sound absorbing facades and textiles in urban
landscapes.
Kristina Fridh, Margareta Zetterblom, Paula Femenías
Form/Design Center in Malmö - 2019-01-01 -
Sound absorbing textile surfaces in the urban landscape – collaborative
research in textile and architectural
design
Kristina Fridh, Margareta Zetterblom, Paula Femenías
Conference proceedings Futurescan 4: Valuing Practice, Association of Fashion and Textile Courses - 2019-01-01 -
From Japanese tradition towards new subjectivity in the architecture of Kengo Kuma and Toyo
Ito
Kristina Fridh
arq : Architectural research quarterly - 2017-01-01 -
Exploring the “Non-Perfect” Characteristics of
Materials
Kristina Fridh
Symposium Making Effect at ArkDes in Stockholm 14-16 September 2017 - 2017-01-01 -
Earthy Textiles: Experiences from a Joint Teaching Encounter between Textile Design and
Architecture
Paula Femenias, Kristina Fridh, Margareta Zetterblom, Svenja Keune, Riikka Talman, Erica Henrysson, Klara Mörk
Proceedings REDO Cumulus Conference 30 May-2 June 2017 in Kolding, Denmark (e-book) - 2017-01-01 -
The Uncompleted Materiality of the
Void
Kristina Fridh
The Reader, Umeå, Umeå School of Architecture, "Rethinking the Social in Architecture", conference 6–8 February 2013 - 2013-01-01 -
Ytans materialitet – om material och olika kulturers föreställningar om
rum
Kristina Fridh
Forskning och kritik - granskning och recension av konstnärlig forskning Vetenskapsrådet Årsbok KFoU 2010, Lind, Torbjörn (red.) - 2010-01-01 -
The Materiality of the
Surface
Kristina Fridh
Architecture and Phenomenology, June 26-29, 2009, Japan - 2009-01-01 -
Ytans
materialitet
Kristina Fridh, Thomas Laurien
Röhsska museet, Göteborg - 2009-01-01 -
Ytans
materialitet
Kristina Fridh, Thomas Laurien
- 2009-01-01 -
Ytans
materialitet
Kristina Fridh
Arkitekturmuseets årsbok - 2004-01-01 -
Japanska rum – om tomhet och föränderlighet i traditionell och nutida japansk
arkitektur
Kristina Fridh
- 2004-01-01 -
Japanska rum – en diskussion kring tomhet och föränderlighet i traditionell och nutida japansk
arkitektur
Kristina Fridh
- 2001-01-01