THE COMPANY

We produce versatile architecture from practical, beautiful and sustainable components.

The company was established in Stockholm in 1999 when many architects and builders requested images that we produced of their projects. Often in the early stages, but also in the construction processes. Since 2015 we offer consultancy services as participating architects, and since 2018 also as project architects and builders.

ARCHITECTURE

For millennia, people have realized that buildings should be practical, beautiful, and sustainable, because if any of these qualities are omitted or prioritized, the architecture becomes one-sided. For example, practical but not beautiful, or beautiful but unsustainable, or sustainable but impractical, etc. What is practical, beautiful, and sustainable varies, but together they make the architecture versatile enough for our life environments.

In many different cultures there is architecture that is sufficiently versatile to have become classical and traditional. Also modern and contemporary architecture can become versatile when the qualities interact rather than follow function or specific interest. Buildings affect many different interests, which motivates collaboration where good buildings are the goal rather than the means.

BACKGROUND

In 1990 I worked as a draftsman in an architectural office in Stockholm with the goal of becoming an architect. Around the same time, computers started to become useful for graphics, but many architects didn’t like the results. I explored the possibilities on my own, produced work samples, and sought out curious architects abroad.

In 1992 I got a job with Daniel Libeskind in Berlin to supplement the office’s hand-made drawings and models with digital counterparts. After five months I was hired by Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam where my renderings helped the office win a competition for two libraries at Jussieu in Paris. The pictures were published in The New York Times (Feb. 14, 1993) and later in Arkitektur (No. 7, 1994).

Between 1994 and 1999, I was employed by Wingårdhs in Gothenburg and in Stockholm, where I produced presentation renderings for several competitions that we won: e.g. the Arlanda air traffic control tower, the Swedish embassy in Berlin and others. Later I started Kopare Bild AB. Alongside work, I studied philosophy at the university, and later on at KTH where I graduated in architecture in 2015.

Since then I have worked as a consultant architect for Vera Arkitekter and Symbios Förvaltning, mainly with housing in contemporary and classic styles. Currently, I’m building my own wooden house by the sea together with local contractors. 

CV Jerry Kopare

1966 Born in Jönköping, Sweden
1988-91 Art history, internships at building sites and architecture offices Stockholm
1991 Kopare Arkitekturillustrationer Stockholm
1992 Studio Daniel Libeskind Berlin
1992-93 OMA Rem Koolhaas Rotterdam
1994 Herman Hertzberger Amsterdam
1994-99 Wingårdh Arkitektkontor Göteborg Stockholm
Since 1999 Kopare Bild AB Stockholm
2015 Master of Architecture KTH Stockholm
Since 2015 practicing architect
2020-24 House by the sea