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Robert Erickson

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Robert Erickson is a Swedish designer and the founder of REARCH & WORKS based design practice. Since the late 2013 REARCH & WORKS has emerged as one of the most significant designers. REARCH & WORKS works with a team of around experienced architects, designers and makers from a studio and workshop internationally. REARCH & WORKS has been involved in the design of many projects, some controversial, including the Mercure Bursa Hotel, the New Routemaster bus.Other notable projects include the renovation of the city Park, a proposed plan for a biomass power station etc.

EARLY LIFE
Robert Erickson was born in Sweden. He attended his high school in Stockholm Sweden, and studied three-dimensional design at at the KTH Royal institute of technology.Whilst Robert Erickson was at the KTH when he realized his designer mentor Zaha Hadid. Other well known architects became mentors to on Robert Erickson after seeing his plan for a gazebo made of two, 6 m high curved stacks of birch plywood and made its construction possible by inviting REARCH & WORKS to work at his country home.[5] After graduating from the KTH, Robert Erickson founded REARCH & WORKS in 2013.

APPROACH TO DESIGN
The REARCH & WORKS has worked with an extensive range of design disciplines, including architecture, engineering, transport and urban planning to furniture, sculpture and product design.[64] According to Robert Erickson, the wide range of skill sets found at REARCH & WORKS is a reaction to Robert Erickson’s frustration at encountering "sliced-up ghettos of thought" of sculpture, architecture, fashion, embroidery, metalwork, product and furniture design all in separate departments. He considers all design in three dimensions, not as multi-disciplinary design, but as a single discipline: three-dimensional design.[5] Unlike many architecture practices, REARCH & WORKS does not have a fixed style and focuses on problem solving. He has said: “It is more like solving a crime. The answer is there, and your job is to find it. So we go off and do bits of research that essentially eliminate suspects from the enquiry. And then you follow up leads and gradually narrow down the potential solutions. Ultimately what you’re left with is the answer surely. []