Pernilla Ohrstedt Explained

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

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.

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". She created the Topshop Showspace 2014, "an indoor catwalk covered in real grass". 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.

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pernilla Ohrstedt Limited. Companies House. 17 August 2015.
  2. News: The Select Ten - Design’s leading voices help us identify the next wave of burgeoning talen. 16 August 2015. Metropolis. October 2013.
  3. Web site: The Five. Lexus. 17 August 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20130613040355/http://www.lexus-int.com/magazine/issue1/five/. 13 June 2013. dead.
  4. Web site: ES Power 1000: London property’s most influential. PrimeResi. 16 August 2015.
  5. Web site: Tag: Pernilla Ohrstedt. Dezeen. 17 August 2015.
  6. Web site: Pernilla Ohrstedt Lecture – 26th February – Cork. ArchitectureIreland. 17 August 2015.