Henric Benesch

Henric Benesch Architect MSA/PhD

As an architect and researcher issues of change regarding the relation between environments (buildings) and activities (human and non-human) has been a reoccurring theme. That is, to what degree is it we as human who is the changing factor and to what degree is our environment which, whether we like or not, that changes us. Where my main interest lies in how now things can emerge, how we as designers can take the unforeseen into account in a productive way.

I took my masters at CTH-A in 1999, and have since then been moving back an forth and in-between commercial practices and academia, working with education, research, surveys, exhibitions as well as private commissions. The past years has been devoted to artistic research, as a new practice and research field where I have been investigating the field’s premises and possibilities in my own research as well as within the multidisciplinary research projects “Interventions” and “Kitchens/Passion for the real”. In February 2010 I defended my dissertation “Under the canopy – an environment for artistic research” at the Faculty of Fina, Applied and Performings Arts/HDK as a part of this work.

Publications
Benesch H, Engberg T, Eriksson P, Gustafsson C, Ullmark P (2000): Open Space. En miljö för innovativa IT-baserade företag. Innovativ design Chalmers
Benesch H, Engberg T, Hill J, Ullmark P (2003): Processvisioner – nya principer för styrningen och utformningen av framtidens bioteknikbaserade processanläggningar. Slutrapport till Vinnova Innovativ Design Chalmers.
Benesch H (2004): Från e-bio till e-hall – ett arkitektoniskt perspektiv, I: Ekström K M, Mörck M (red), Skärpa på e-bion, Göteborg, CFK
Benesch H (2005): Live at Epidemin. Proceedings of In the making, 29 – 31 may 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark
Benesch H (2008): Buildings, Change, Futurity – Reading Seattle Public Library and Sendai Mediateque.  Proceedings of Design Inquiries, May 27-30, Stockholm, Sweden
Benesch H, Ullmark P (2008): The Experimental Start of the Planning of Södra Älvstranden in Gothenburg. Art Monitor: The Politics of Magma, s 28-36
Benesch H, Ullmark P (2008): Potentials of Artistic Intervention and Artistic Research. Art Monitor: The Politics of Magma, s 37-47
Benesch H, Ullmark P (2008): ENVOI - Some Preliminary Thoughts on a Built Environment at Skeppsbron. Art Monitor: The Politics of Magma, s 109-119
Benesch H (2010): Under the canopy – an environment for artistic research (in swedish). Art Monitor

Articles
H Benesch (2007): Villa JT, Onsalahalvön. Arkitektur 6:2007, s 36-39
Dahlman P (2008): Byggmästerlig svartkonst. Residence 4:2008, s 32-39

Comissions (selection)
Nivå (2000), restaurant and club - interior (Linköping), together with J Granberg
Contemplation Room (2002), Installation in Kungsparken (Göteborg), together with S von Raalte
St-Nicolai (2003), report (Visby), together with P Christensson, P Eriksson och P Ullmark
Villa Furbo (2004), new building (Stockholm), together with P Ullmark
Villa JT (2005), new building (Onsala)
Villa Seensalu (2007), new building, together with P Ullmark
Kökspassionen (2008), exhibition at the City Library in Gothenburg, exhibition architect
Talkin loud sayin something (2008), exhibition at Gothenburg Art Museum, exhibition architect
ELIA (2008), Event -Interior and exterior, Götaplatsen in Gothenburg, Event architect
Villa Kulle (2009), new building (Stenungssund)
KFN 10år/GAS (2010 - ), exhibition at Atalante (Gothenburg)