Fredrik Hellberg

AA Dip. (hons) (MArch) ARB/RIBA II A-MSA

Fredrik Hellberg is an architect with over ten years of academic experience, having taught architectural design studio, workshops and seminars in universities across the world.

In 2013, in Bangkok, Hellberg started the multidisciplinary design and research practice Space Popular, together with Lara Lesmes. Based in London and Spain since 2016, Space Popular creates spaces, objects, and events in both physical and virtual space, concentrating on how the two realms will blend together in the near future. They have completed buildings, exhibitions, public artworks, furniture collections, and interiors across Asia and Europe, as well as virtual architecture in the Immersive Internet. Clients, collaborators, and commissioners include national institutions such as The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design –ArkDes, Stockholm, the Royal Institute of British Architects, London, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome, Sir John Soane Museum in London as well as independent galleries such as MAGAZIN, Vienna, and Sto Werkstatt, London.

Between 2016 and 2021, Hellberg, together with Lara Lesmes, directed a MArch design and research unit titled Civic Program at the Architectural Association in London, investigating visions for civic architecture in the virtual realm. Between 2020 and 2022 they also taught a research master studio at Daniels, Faculty of Architecture, University of Toronto, and since 2022 Hellberg and Lesmes teach an MArch studio at UCLA AUD in Los Angeles. Both studios investigate visions for civic architecture in the immersive internet.

Hellberg graduated from the Architectural Association in 2011 with honors after which he joined the international architecture program INDA at Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, as Third Year Coordinator and Lecturer between 2011 and 2016. At INDA he also founded the academic research unit Tools for Architecture together with Lara Lesmes.

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

• Founder & Director, Space Popular ltd, UK, 2013 – Present

• Founding member and director, SATHA. Design and Research Lab, Thailand, 2014 – 2016

• Architectural Design Assistant, Stephane Paumier Architect, India, 2009

• Architectural Design Assistant, Sauerbruch Hutton Architects, Germany, 2008 – 2009

• Founder and director, YNG. The Swedish Society for Crafts and Design, Sweden, 2003 – 2004

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Visiting Adjunct professor MArch, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, USA, 2022 – Present

• Adjunct professor, IE University, Spain, 2022 – Present

• Visiting Adjunct professor MArch, University of Toronto, Canada, 2020 – 2022

• Unit Master MArch, Architectural Association School of Architecture, UK, 2019 – 2021

• Unit Master BArch, Architectural Association School of Architecture, UK, 2016 – 2019

• Third year coordinator, INDA Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, 2014 – 2016

• Adjunct Professor, INDA Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, 2011 – 2016

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• MArch in Architecture, Architectural Association school of Architecture, UK. 2009 – 2011

• BArch in Architecture, Architectural Association school of Architecture, UK. 2005 – 2009

• Foundation Course, Architectural Association school of Architecture, UK. 2004 – 2005

• Foundation Course, Beckman’s School of Design, Sweden. 2003 – 2004