Julia Andersson is a distinguished architect and graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture. Her recent project The Loop, showcase her commitment to exploring regenerative futures for the built environment, aiming to create new narratives, rituals and sensory experiences. 
 
Her work features site-specific installations developed through multidisciplinary collaborations, blending architecture, art, and urban planning with a humanistic approach. Julia is passionate about sensory experiences and making the most of on-site resources like clay, straw, and ocean plastics. She envisions a material culture that values repair and symbiosis over consumption and waste.
 
In her project, The Loop, Julia addresses the urgent need to design ways to live with nature, not just from it. Inspired by the scarcity of water in the Nevada desert, she emphasizes honoring and nurturing this invaluable resource. The Loop creates a regenerative cycle of water and nutrients, making these essential flows visible and revered rather than hidden beneath concrete and steel. The project immerses humans within the ecosystem, fostering a reconnection to nature and grounding ourselves in the process.
 
Julia has won several competitions, including LAGI 2020 Fly Ranch with The Loop, featured in Dezeen, Forbes, and "Land Art of the 21st Century." She also won the Open Call Frihamnen Prototype Göteborg 2023 and served as the concept developer for the Zaatari refugee classroom project, which was named Building of the Year 2018 by ArchDaily.

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W O R K :

Backhans & Ed Arkitekter | 2023 - 

FLOR arkitektur | Stockholm | 2019 - 2023

Co-Founder of Radicle Collective | Stockholm/Cape Town | 2018 -

Codesign | Stockholm | 2015 - 2018

Q2 arkitekter | Malmö | 2009 - 2014

Jr. LAB | København | 2010 - 2011

 

E D U C A T I O N :

Of Public Interest (OPI) Lab | Royal Institute of Art | Stockholm, Sweden | 2023 -

MA in Architecture at KADK | København, Denmark | 2012-2015

BA in Architecture at KADK | København, Denmark | 2009-2012

Lunds Konst och Designskola | Lund, Sweden | 2008-2009

Political economy | Göteborg, Sweden | 2008

Chinese Language at Fudan University | Shanghai, China | 2007

Chinese Language at Gothenburg University | Göteborg, Sweden | 2006-2007

Social Anthropology | Göteborg, Sweden | 2006

English at Sussex University | Brighton, England | 2005

High school with focus on Industrial Design | Göteborg, Sweden | 2002-2005

 

S E L E C T E D  P R O J E C T S :

The Breeze | Göteborg, Sweden | 2023

Post office transformation | Katrineholm, Sweden | Backhans & Ed | 2023

Tiny Church | København, Denmark | 2023

The Loop | Fly Ranch, Nevada, USA | 2022

Temple of Release | Alversjö, Sweden | 2022

Årstafältet etapp 5 kv. J | Stockholm, Sweden | FLOR arkitektur | 2021

Bostadskvarter i Högdalen | Stockholm, Sweden | FLOR arkitektur | 2020

Årstafältet etapp 4 kv. G | Stockholm, Sweden | FLOR arkitektur | 2019

The Imaginarium | Sweden | Radicle Collective | 2018

Exhibition ”Through the Eyes of a woman” | Arkitekter utan Gränser | 2017

Brogårdaskolan | Bjuv, Sweden | Codesign | 2016-2018

Netlight | Interior design | Stockholm, Sweden | Codesign | 2018

Klustret Ekskäret | Interior design | Stockholm, Sweden | Codesign | 2016

Sansespill | Boesdal kalkbrott, Denmark | 2016 

Education and social spaces in Zaatari refugee camp | 2014

Mellanvångsskolan | Staffanstorp, Sweden | Q2 arkitekter | 2010-2014

Lilla & Stora Emilia | Staffanstorp, Sweden | Q2 arkitekter | 2008-2012