Pernilla Ohrstedt

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Elin Pernilla Ohrstedt (born December 1980) is a London-based Swedish architect.

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Early life

Elin Pernilla Ohrstedt was born in December 1980. [1] She grew up in Stockholm, and is the daughter of architect parents. [2] She took a foundation course at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, followed by the Bartlett School of Architecture. [3]

Career

She founded the London-based Pernilla Ohrstedt Studio in 2012. [2]

In September 2013, the London Evening Standard included her in the ES Power 1000. [4]

Her work has included the Coca-Cola Beatbox in collaboration with Asif Khan, a London 2012 Olympic Park interactive pavilion that can be played like a musical instrument. [5] Together with Asif Khan, she designed the Future Memory Pavilion for the British Council and the Royal Academy of Arts in Singapore in 2011, "a two-coned structure made predominantly of rope". [3] She created the Topshop Showspace 2014, "an indoor catwalk covered in real grass". [5] At the 2014 London Design Festival, she created a stand for the MINI Frontiers exhibition to show how driverless cars will visualise 3D data and gradually produce a perfect digital model of a city. [5]

Other clients and collaborators The Architecture Foundation, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Mark Ronson, the Canada Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, DAKS and Antipodium. [6]

Ohrstedt was shortlisted for Emerging Woman Architect of the Year by the Architects' Journal . [3]

References

  1. ↑ "Pernilla Ohrstedt Limited". Companies House. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  2. 1 2 "The Select Ten – Design's leading voices help us identify the next wave of burgeoning talen". Metropolis. October 2013. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 "The Five". Lexus. Archived from the original on 13 June 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  4. ↑ "ES Power 1000: London property's most influential". PrimeResi. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 "Tag: Pernilla Ohrstedt". Dezeen. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Pernilla Ohrstedt Lecture – 26th February – Cork". ArchitectureIreland. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
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