Mårten Claesson

Mårten Claesson was born in Lidingö, Sweden, in 1970. After studying at the Vasa Technical College in Stockholm in the department of construction engineering and at the Parsons School of Design in New York in the departments of architecture and product design, he graduated in 1994 with an MFA degree from Konstfack, the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. He is co-founder of the Swedish design partnership Claesson Koivisto Rune, which is multidisciplinary in the classic Scandinavian way and which pursues the practice of both architecture and design. Mårten Claesson is also a writer and lecturer in the field of architecture and design.