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‘To build content while designing form’ – An information architect is responsible for the fit between content and structure in all kinds of information systems – with the Internet in the centre.

Information architects make technical possibilities fit the challenges of the use context. They know how to combine user driven innovation with solid knowledge of the affordances of content management systems and databases, and how to develop clear and penetrating concepts expressed in likeable and easy-to-understand interfaces.

The education is constructive and problem oriented, with a global scope, hence all subjects are taught in English. A network of public and private enterprises offer real world evaluation and design tasks and give feedback on the solutions produced. The students bring this feedback into their further theoretical studies and portfolio, started on day one.

Field of profession
The Master’s degree programme at the Department of Architectural Design is primarily profession oriented. The Master’s degree programme is directed at a field of profession that is defined by praxis and built architecture. The field of profession ranges from architectural offices, over building product manufacturers to system suppliers. The graduates of the department do not solely focus on the architectural offices, but are also able to take on roles within other professional units. Likewise, the graduates do not only cover the preparation of the project, but can also come forward with components within process development and process control – i.e. more strategic and consultancy-related fields. They can focus on product development within systems and components, or they can participate with their knowledge of sustainability and architecture/component development.

The Master’s degree programme relates to a current reality which is not least characterized by the industrialization and the professional radical changes taking place within the building sector. The graduates must have insight into the current conditions, including knowledge of environmental problem areas, and they must examine and challenge the profession – not mimic it. They must go to the limits and push development forward to a still larger degree of responsibility and quality in the architectural production. Not least must they grab the aesthetic challenge that lies in the industrialization: the aesthetics of collocation.

The technological, the methodical and the ethical
The realization of architecture is about the physical creation, about translating architectural ideas into built form, to space, material and construction. But also the circumstances that characterize the creation, i.e. the architect’s role; the technological-, production- and resource-related conditions; the meeting with the users; and not least the architect’s social and political responsibility are important elements in the realisation of architecture.

Purpose
The department carries out research, development work and teaching within the area of architectural heritage.
The purpose is to develop strategies, nationally, internationally and cross-disciplinarily, for preservation of the values of the architectural heritage and the integration of these values in the future. This includes all contexts where architectural heritage is represented.

Strategic area of responsibility
The department is responsible for establish, develop, collect and communicate knowledge within:
architectural planning and design in connection with renewal and preservation of architectural heritage – in interaction with societal development
architectural culture in various cultural communities
architectural valuation and documentation
processes, workmanship and materials related to historical development
architectural history.

Professional area of responsibility
The focus areas of the department are architectural planning and design:
for preservation of valuable cultural environments
for preservation of areas with valuable architecture
in connection with restoration and instauration of buildings that are listed and worthy of preservation
in connection with urban renewal
in connection with transformation of urban areas and buildings.

Basic research and teaching themes within:
Architectural design: Aesthetics (geometry of aesthetics), design – new form in relation to existing form and interpretation of existing form to new form.
Theory: Restoration and conversion theory, theory regarding architectural valuation and weighting, preservation theory (reinforce, defend and communicate). In relation to the cultural environment, planning theory, mapping theory, theory regarding protection of values, historical architectural theory and urban theory, theory of aesthetics.
Analysis and history: Architectural history, urban archaeology and buildings archaeology, cultural history, historical building technology and load-bearing constructions.
Documentation: Urban documentation and building documentation (measuring, drawing, photography and description), condition registration and assessment, context documentation (registration and description).
Process: Organisation and management of planning and construction, urban technology and building technology, materials, finances and legislation (preservation and urban renewal, district planning, municipal planning, regional planning).

Teaching and research/development
The teaching content is connected to the basic knowledge and focus areas of the department, which are also the research areas of the department. The teaching is research-based.

Cultural environments and areas worthy of preservation
Developing strategies and methods for:
identification of cultural environments that are international, national, regional or local areas of interest
physical demarcation of a cultural environment with the relevant contexts that it is part of, and strategies for demarcation in preparation for a future planning possibility
valuation/condition description (including vulnerability) of a cultural environment for the purpose of identifying main areas of action
description of main areas of action as well as a range of possibilities for establishment and development of the cultural environment in question, which is to form the basis of later specific planning choices and decisions
development of mapping methods for description of natural resources, cultural history, landscape and architecture.

For development of strategies and methods, selected cultural environments (cases) can be used, which are to represent a wide range of ’typical’ problems at different levels.

Restoration and instauration of buildings that are listed and worthy of preservation
This focus area deals with research and teaching within restoration, instauration and care of buildings and building complexes that are listed and worthy of preservation. The studies and research include the interaction between new and old and focus on the theoretical as well as the practical problems related to analysis, revitalisation, preservation and renewal in connection with valuable architecture and building culture.
The reason that these problems arise is partly that the physical environment is constantly subjected to mechanical and chemical deterioration, partly that functionally determined structures change or become obsolete, and partly that conditions of life as well as political and economical conditions in society change. Furthermore, the development of the view on architecture and preservation theories affects the definition and delimitation of the problem area.

Urban renewal
Within the last 50-60 years, urban renewal and urban transformation have been and still are inextricably linked with urban development, contingent on the societal cyclical transformation process – structurally, economically, politically and functionally as well as socially.
Urban renewal takes place on a large as well as a small scale and lays down guidelines and regulations for actions that can preserve the cultural heritage values in connection with urban design, action plans, pilot projects etc. of physical, design, architectural, landscape, sector as well as functional and social structures.

Transformation of city and buildings
Transformation is the respectful, but also barrier-breaking reuse of the urban and building-related cultural heritage.
Transformation is a meeting between past form and future application and use.
Transformation can be about neighbourhoods or urban areas where the functionality has become obsolete, such as harbour or railway areas or industrial areas.
It can be about the current use of buildings worthy of preservation, such as churches and manors or other buildings with monument status. These types of buildings can also be old industrial buildings, office buildings or commercial houses.
Transformation is function rather than representation or presentation. It is construction rather than reconstruction.

Architectural heritage in other cultures
Based on the full potential and know-how of the department, it is the objective of this focus area to exchange experience and knowledge with foreign research institutes and educational institutions about the architectural heritage of foreign cultures.

Our surroundings are under constant change; some things disappear, some things are preserved, other things are changed and new are added.

The Department of Architectural Heritage is engaged in the changes and additions that are continuously made in the culturally created environment. What we are creating now will – together with what is preserved – become the architectural heritage of the future.

The architectural heritage as subject area constitutes a theoretical as well as practical aspect of all architectural work.

It is a complex and artistic discipline to carry out the design- and preservation-related interventions required in these connections. Any architectural project must therefore take its starting point in the cultural and physical connections in which they are an integral part. This way the project work seeks abilities to understand the past, act in the present and create for the future.

Dealing with the architectural heritage is to examine, study and practice architecture – plus something more. This means that the architectural education must have supplementary methods added that especially imply knowledge of entirety as well as detail.

The studies, the teaching and the research therefore takes its starting point in architecture as a discipline in such a way that analysis, value estimation and understanding of the cultural and physical connections are included as condition for any architectural project.

Strategic and academic areas of responsibility
The department is responsible for wording and pursuing strategies for planning politics and spatiality for the development of cities, urban areas, public spaces, landscapes and infrastructural installations in relation to societal processes of change.

Furthermore, the department attends to the accumulation and communication of knowledge within the field of social sciences.

Research platform
The department conducts research and development within the field of urban development, both nationally and internationally, in relation to both the cultural and the natural basis for residence and localisation of economic, technical and educational infrastructure. The perspective of the work is both strategic/urban political and administrative, and approaches are sociological, environmental, historical, aesthetic, and from the vantage point of planning theory.

Focus areas:

1. Urbanisations
The term “urbanisations” is used to cover major building- and park facilities in urban areas, the establishment of these as projects, and their effect as products, cf. appendix to the description of the department concerning urban intensity agglomerates.

2. Transformation
The focus area deals with the changing of existing physical structures, e.g. new use for abandoned industrial areas, roads, railways, ports and – in the suburbs – the future of single-family houses.

3. Urban expansion
The focus area deals partly with the establishment of new urban areas (new suburbs) in connection with the growth of big cities (e.g. Orestaden or Lisbjerg), and partly with the type of urban development taking place in connection with junctions (traffic, commercial centres) in the urban landscape of the expanding city.

4. Urban landscapes
The focus area deals with urban- and landscape development in urban areas, which are connected – internally or externally by large infrastructural installations. An example would be the development of villages and landscapes in proximity to big cities.

5. Rural landscapes
The focus area deals with the development in rural areas and villages outside of urban areas. The focus area deals with a multitude of aspects: the landscape as a resource for (agricultural) production and utilisation (of raw materials), the landscape as a territory for building and infrastructure, the landscape as a space for reproduction of nature, the landscape as a space for aesthetic experience and experience of nature, the landscape as a representation of the history of the development of nature and culture.

6. Transverse/inter-disciplinary focus areas: Process, administration and virtual cities
Transverse/inter-disciplinary focus areas comprise general matters pertaining to processes in planning and citizen participation, matters pertaining to the significance of administrative structures in urban- and landscape development as well as the emergence of “virtual cities”, i.e. spatial relationships, in which various territories are connected via electronic networks.

Strategic and academic areas of responsibility
The department is responsible for wording and pursuing strategies for the maintenance and strengthening of the cognitive, cultural and physical significance of architecture in society.

Furthermore, the department attends to the accumulation and communication of knowledge within the field of architectural theory.

Research platform
The department conducts research and development within the core fields and basic elements of architecture – including, among others, space, light, materiality, tectonics and functionality – from artistic, theoretical and practical approaches alike. The research conducted at the department is based on both basic theoretical research and artistic development work.

Focus areas:

1. The autonomy of architecture

Topics are: architectural quality, the concept of authenticity and work analysis

2. Basic parameters of architecture

Topics are: architectural space, light as a tectonic element, architectural transitions and architecture as communication.

3. New tasks in architecture

Topics are: safety and security in architecture, learning spaces, shopping, eventscape and new strategic tools in architecture

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