Considered, not fast
We take fewer projects and give each the time it needs. Slow is how buildings end up feeling inevitable.
About the practice
A small studio with a long view
Studio Nord is an architecture practice on the Nordic coast, working across homes, culture, and the workplace. We keep the studio small on purpose — so every commission has a partner's attention from the first sketch to the last detail.
The practice was founded in Reykjavík in 2011 by Ingrid Sør and Anders Voll, who had spent a decade building for other studios and wanted to work more slowly and more completely — to stay with a project long enough to get it right.
We work in section and in daylight. Before a plan is fixed we test it against the site: how the light falls through the year, how a room is entered, what a wall is made of and how it will weather. Nothing is specified that we would not be happy to live beside in twenty years.
Today the studio is a team of eight, taking on a handful of new commissions each year across Iceland, Norway, and Denmark. We remain deliberately selective — we take the work we can give our full attention, and we decline the rest.
How we work
Detailed in-house
Every drawing is ours. We do not hand the details to someone else — the care is in the joints.
Built to age well
We specify for the long run: honest materials, generous daylight, and rooms that improve with use.
A building should feel inevitable — as if the site had been waiting for it.
Ingrid Sør & Anders Voll, Founding partners
2011
Practice founded, Reykjavík
42
Completed commissions
11
Awards & citations
4
Countries built in
The studio
Ingrid Sør
Founding partner
Anders Voll
Founding partner
Mara Lindqvist
Associate, projects
Johan Aalto
Associate, interiors