ALTA was founded by Michela Barone Lumaga and Lovisa Lindström in 2022. The practice is engaged in architectural, urban and interior design projects.

Design exploration and a context based approach are the roots of the studio philosophy. Alta's projects value the idea that daily life is precious and buildings should support social interactions, be open and adaptable for change.

Lovisa and Michela have contributed to a dozen building projects in Stockholm, London, Milan and Amsterdam and are currently lecturers at KTH, combining their work at ALTA with academic teaching. The studio believes in a collaborative practice with a good quality of professional life and engaged clients.




BIO


Lovisa Lindström has worked for an extensive period in both the UK and in Sweden. In London she worked at Acme architecture and muf architecture/art as a Project Architect for public spaces. She was creative lead in several competitions - Science museum, London, and Fell Foot visitor centre that the office won among others. Latest she comes from Sandellsandberg architects in Stockholm, Sweden, where she worked as Senior Architect on large scale projects ranging from kindergarten, residential projects and office space. Lovisa has worked successfully in all phases of a project from sketch to developed design to construction detailing and thinks that each phase has its own unique challenges and enjoyments.

Lovisa holds Masters degree in Architecture and Interior design from London Metropolitan University and Masters degree in Architecture from LTH University. Her degree project and thesis ‘And the seasons go round and round’ discussed weather as an architecutural context and was awarded several stipends - best degree project of 2012 among others. She is currently teaching at KTH school of Architecture in Stockholm as an adjunct combined with running Alta Architecture together with Michela.





Michela Barone Lumaga has experience in design and management on a range of projects varying from residential developments and office headquarters to public and invitational competitions. Before starting ALTA Architecture Michela worked with Sandellsandberg in Stockholm, where, among other projects, she developed Boverket's new headquarters in Karlskrona, a building in structural wood aiming for both LEED and BREAM classifications and a large student housing complex in Skellefteå. Michela has worked internationally both in Europe and the US, collaborating with Jo Coenen Architects in Holland, Cino Zucchi in Italy, Michael Sorkin in New York.

She holds Masters degrees in Architecture and Urban Planning from Politecnico di Milano and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During her studies at MIT, she collaborated with the Brazilian government in Rio de Janeiro to implement design workshops in favelas. As a Fellow for the TATA Center for Technology and Design (MIT Energy Initiative), she implemented a digitally fabricated, masonry-based, Pilot Home for India. Her thesis, “Public by Design: Auto-fabrication for a Contemporary Urban Physiognomy”, proposes urban objects that can be designed and built by citizens. As an educator, she held teaching assistant positions in design studios both at MIT and at Politecnico di Milano and she is currently an adjunct professor at KTH in Stockholm.



CV

Lovisa Lindström

EXPERIENCE

PRESENT - 2022 ALTA ARCHITECTURE 

Partner


PRESENT- 2021 KTH UNIVERSITY 

Adjunct Faculty


2022-2015  SANDELLSANDBERG 

Senior Architect, Project manager. Large scale projects including housing, education, office and urban space

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2015 ELDINGOSCARSSON 

Project Architect


2012-2015 muf architecture/art  LONDON

Project architect, Project manager. Projects including HWFI
Guidelines report, Payers Park, Jubileumsparken Göteborg,
Competitions including Wonderlab, Sciencemuseum and Fell
Foot Visitor Centre.


2012 ACME LONDON

Architect


2010-2011 SANDELLSANDBERG 

Architecture Intern


2009-2010 PAISAJES EMERGENTES MEDELLÍN

Architecture Intern


EDUCATION
2011-2012 LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

Master of Architecture and Interior design

2006 -2009 LUND TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Architecture


2005 -2006 CITY AND GUILDS OF LONDON ARTSCHOOL

Foundation Degree in Art & Design




PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION

2014 SVERIGES ARKITEKTER STOCKHOLM

Licensed member and registered architect



AWARDS ACADEMIC GRANTS

2016 HELGE AXSON JOHNSON TRAVELGRANT

Grant to research the area of Langa & Carin Smuts in Cape Town, South Africa


2016 BO EDBLADS MAUREEN WELLS STIPENDIUM

Grant to research the area of Langa & Carin Smuts in Cape Town, South Africa


2014 GHAAS - GUNNAR OCH HANS ASPLUNDS ARKITEKTURSTIFTELSE

Best degreeproject of LTH Universit


2014 MEM:DRAWING AWARD

1st Prize, Swedish Architects yearly drawing prize


2014 HELGE AXSON JOHNSON TRAVELGRANT

Grant to research the area of “El Hueco” in Medellín, Colombia


2012 CARL ERIK LEVINS STIFTELSE FOR STUDIES ABROAD

Grant to study Master of Architecture in London

2012 CRAFOORDSKA STIFTELSEN FOR STUDIES ABROAD

Grant to study Master of Architecture in London

2009 KALLENBERGSKA STIFTELSEN

Grant for workplacement abroad - Medellín, Colombia

2006 CITY AND GUILDS OF LONDON ART SCHOOL

Best Design student of the year


APPOINTMENTS

2021 LECTURER & GUEST CRIT

Architectural Assosiation Summer School

2020 LECTURER & GUEST CRIT

Central St Martin School of Architecture

2015 TEACHING ASSISTANT

Lund Technical University

2014 VISITING TEACHER

Bellas Artes, Medellín Colombia

2014 RESIDENCY MEDELLÌN
2013 -2016 SHUFFLE ORGANISATION

Shuffle was a community run Film and Culture Festival in Mile
End, London founded by Kate McTiernan. My role in the team
was as the festivals architect, placemaker and designer. 10.000-
20.000 visitors / year.


2012 GUEST TEACHER & GUEST CRIT

London Metropolitan University


EXHIBITIONS

2015 - PRESENT DESPLANS EXHIBITIONS OF ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS VARIOUS LOCATIONS

2015 PARÉIDOLIE DRAWING FAIR MARSEILLE

Group exhibition for Gallery Bets Project, London


2015 KUNGSTENSGATAN 27 GALLERY STOCKHOLM
Solo exhibition “Beauty is Power”

2015 VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM LONDON

Participating with muf architecture/art for the exhibition “All of this belongs to you”,


2012 B&B PROJECTSPACE FOLKESTONE

Group exhibition “Vernacular Habitation”


2012 PAYERS PARK ARTWORKS, FOLKESTONE

Installation of permanent public artworks. “Melting” Collaboration with artist Matt Rowe.


PUBLICATIONS

“Donde esta el hueco”, Article and Photographic essay in MVT Journal, December issue, 2015 Interview with me regarding Payers Park, T-R-E-S-M-O-R-E,


2014

Pampleth no 33. “LCLA Office - Island and Atolls”, Princeton Press, 2013. Participating author


SPEAKING APPOINTMENTS
2023 / ITALIAN INSTITUTE OF CULTURE STOCKHOLM

Architectural Practice between Italy and Sweden

Michela Barone Lumaga

EXPERIENCE

PRESENT - 2022 ALTA ARCHITECTURE 

Partner


PRESENT- 2021 KTH UNIVERSITY 

Adjunct Faculty


2022-2016  SANDELLSANDBERG 

Senior Architect and Competitions Team Manager for large scale projects including housing and headquarters


2016-2014 POND STOCKHOLM 

Senior Architect 


2011 CINO ZUCCHI  MILAN

Project architect for ENI Headquarters International Competition and Generali City Life urban housing
competition


2010 MICHAEL SORKIN TERREFORM
NEW YORK

Researcher and project architect for residential expansion
proposal in post-Katrina New Orleans


2009 GAS ARCHITECTS
MILAN

Project architect for clients including Generali Properties and Sara Assicurazioni.


2008-2006 JO COENEN & CO ARCHITEKTEN
AMSTERDAM

Project architect for ING Real Estate apartment buildings an office headquarter. Designer during construction phase for OBA Central Public Library, Amsterdam


EDUCATION
2013-2011 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, SMARCHS

Master of Science in Architecture Studies


2005 -1999 POLITECNICO DI MILANO, FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY

Master of Architecture


PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION

2016 SVERIGES ARKITEKTER STOCKHOLM

Licensed member and registered architect


2017-2013

Green Card holder


2011-2006 ORDINE DEGLI ARCHITETTI

Licensed member and registered architect


AWARDS ACADEMIC GRANTS

2013-2012 MIT FELLOWSHIP, TATA CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN

Frugal brick development for India. Received award for full MIT tuition


2013 CAMIT GRANT

Grant from Council for the Arts at MIT in support of thesis design project


2012 MIT INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVES FELLOWSHIP

Research grant to develop design project in collaboratio with Brazilian government


2005-2004 TRIENNALE DI MILANO TRAVEL WORKSHOP AWARD

Itinerant architectural design workshop at the IUAV in Venice, University of Roma Tre, University of Naples
Federico II and Genoa Faculty of Architecture with architects A. Ferlenga, A. Aymonino, S. Boeri and G. La Varra



APPOINTMENTS

2012 TEACHING ASSISTANT MIT

Architecture Core 2 Studio PLATFORMS FOR EXCHANGE: MULTITUDE, MEDIA AND MATERIAL.

with Professors Ana Miljaki & Joel Lamere


2010 TEACHING ASSISTANT POLIMI

University of Politecnico di Milano with Professor Protasoni



EXHIBITIONS

2016 MEJAN GALLERY STOCKHOLM

2012 MIT MUSEUM “WAYS OF SEEING” BOSTON

PUBLICATIONS

RLAB 

Yearbook for “Research Lab: Architecture, Design, Media” run by Peter Lang at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. 2016


Vito Hannibal Acconci, LOFT, Vol. III, 2014

Northern conversations with Cino Zucchi, LOFT, Vol. III, 2011

Mario Botta, 50 years in architecture, LOFT, Vol. I, 2011

Monumental Emotion: an interview with Massimilian Fuksas, LOFT, Vol. XIV, 2010

Shape + color = sensation + stimulation: an interview wit Karim Rashid, LOFT, Vo. XIII, 2010

SPEAKING APPOINTMENTS
2023 / ITALIAN INSTITUTE OF CULTURE STOCKHOLM

Architectural Practice between Italy and Sweden




COLLABORATORS

Nawar Bakir 
We are ALTA: a Stockholm based office engaged in architecture,
urban and interior design projects.