Film screening, presentation and conversation
Welcome to a morning that broadens perspectives on what architecture can be – and what it can do.

Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Location: The Royal Academy of Fine Arts auditorium
Time: 09.00–12.00

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In connection with the architect, urban researcher and activist Arno Brandlhuber receiving this year's Rolf Schock Prize in the visual arts, the Academy of Fine Arts invites you to a program that provides insight into work that challenges how we think about construction - and opens up new ways of shaping our common spaces.

Our program will include:

8:30-9:00
Coffee is served in the cafe

9:00 AM – 10:30 PM
Screening of documentary films Legislative Architecture and To Build Law
– two films that explore how laws and regulations shape our cities

10:45-11:30
Presentation by Arno Brandlhuber
– about his work at the intersection of architecture, research and activism

11:30-12:00
Conversation between Arno Brandlhuber and Catharina Gabrielsson, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts and professor of urban planning at KTH.

Arno Brandlhuber (born 1964) is one of Europe's most influential voices in contemporary architecture. Since the 1990s, he has developed a practice in which architecture is not just about buildings, but also about politics, laws and social structures. With projects such as Antivilla and Terrace house, as well as films and initiatives such as HouseEurope!, he raises questions about how we can build more sustainably – socially, ecologically and economically.

He has taught at several international institutions, including Harvard GSD and ETH Zurich, and currently leads the research and architecture group Brandlhuber+ in Berlin. He is also co-founder of the platforms bplus.xyz and HouseEurope.eu.

Caption: Arno Brandlhuber. Photo: Simon Watson.
Terrassenhaus (Mix-Use, Berlin, 2018, Architects: Brandlhuber+ Emde, Burlon, Muck Petzet Architekten), photo: David Becker.

The Rolf Schock Prizes

The Rolf Schock Prize is something so unusual as a prize in logic and philosophy, mathematics, and visual arts as well as music. The laureates are selected in a unique collaboration between three Swedish academies: the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The final decision is made by The Schock Foundation.

Contributions in science, art and music are rewarded with the Rolf Schock Prize. This year's laureates are:

The visual arts: Arno Brandlhuber, architect, urban researcher and activist.
Logic and Philosophy: Bastiaan C. van Fraassen.
Mathematics: Tobias Holck Colding
Music: Maria Schneider, composer and conductor.

The prize, with a prize amount of SEK 600,000 per prize area, will be awarded on June 8 at the Academy of Fine Arts.

> Read more about the Rolf Schock Prize