Robin Durand
“The program has been an incredible opportunity to take a critical distance and reflect on the experiences and the work produced over recent years, while feeding new ideas through the study of the place, Los Angeles."
Robin Durand is a Umeå, Sweden, based architect and educator. He grows up in Tokyo, Japan and Umeå, Sweden, and studies in France and Belgium, graduating from the ENSA-Marseilles, France in 2013. After spending several years in European practices of various types, architecture, landscape, Robin now runs an independent practice in Umeå, Sweden, in parallel to his lecturing at Umeå School of Architecture. His practice ranges from project designs to research and exhibitions, working individually or collaboratively. He teaches architectural design at undergraduate and graduate level and architecture theory.
Over the years, Robin has developed a sensibility for an attentive architecture, often non-spectacular but nevertheless ambitious. The everyday and existing situations are the base material within which quality and aesthetics are to be revealed. They are carefully investigated as sources one can learn from in order to develop contemporary architectural projects. This method has been experimented in a wide range of scales, from research projects to complex renovations, competitions and design of art exhibitions for museum spaces.
EDUCATION
2017, HMONP
ENSA-Paris Malaquais
Paris, France
2013, MArch
ENSA-Marseille
Marseille, France
2010, BArch
ENSA-Marseille
Marseille, France
JURY
Helge Mooshammer
Jenni Tischer
Thomas Trummer
Nicole Scheyerer
Lilli Hollein
