Thomas Paltiel

+46 70 748 68 45

Department of Design, Interior Architecture and Visual Communication / Interior Architecture and Furniture Design

Thomas Paltiel (Stockholm) is a Senior Lecturer and teaches part-time across the BA and MA Programs in Interior architecture and Spatial Design at Konstfack, University of Arts, Craft and Design, and intermittently at at the MA Program in Art Curation at The Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University. Besides teaching the runs the architecture office studio näv. 
 studio nāv was founded in 2013 by Carl Fransson and Thomas Paltiel. studio nāv is recognised as a spatial practice investigating architecture from the basis of its formal, material and social premises. Rooted within aesthetic theory and design history, projects are often initiated by an extensive period of research before entering into a phase of formal composition and design. Each undertaking is formulated according to a clear framework from which the production and negotiation of architecture can be exercised, often in collaboration with other thinkers. In contrast to a more traditional understanding of collaboration this process is not appreciated in terms of consensus, but rather as a method to generate spaces of ‘unitary multiplicity’. studio nāv grows out of an interdisciplinary tradition and has predominantly figured within the arts. To date the studio has collaborated with the likes of OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Lina Selander, Vanessa Place, Oneohtrix Point Never and Lee Gamble.   As a practice the studio has worked with a diversity of projects, among others; new outdoor furniture for the Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm (i.c.w OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen and Artek), exhibition architecture for the Swedish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, a nomadic art institution for the collective PIM (i.c.w Goro Tronsmo and Anders Paulin) and the National memorial for 22nd July in Norway (i.c.w Lina Selander).