Elin Pernilla Ohrstedt (born December 1980) is a London-based Swedish architect.
Early life edit
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 edit
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 edit
- ^ "Pernilla Ohrstedt Limited". Companies House. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
- ^ a b "The Select Ten - Design's leading voices help us identify the next wave of burgeoning talen". Metropolis. October 2013. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
- ^ a b c "The Five". Lexus. Archived from the original on 13 June 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
- ^ "ES Power 1000: London property's most influential". PrimeResi. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
- ^ a b c "Tag: Pernilla Ohrstedt". Dezeen. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
- ^ "Pernilla Ohrstedt Lecture – 26th February – Cork". ArchitectureIreland. Retrieved 17 August 2015.