{"id":256735,"date":"2025-11-11T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aarch.dk\/arkitektskolen-aarhus-fylder-60\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T10:41:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:41:30","slug":"aarhus-school-of-architecture-turns-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aarch.dk\/en\/aarhus-school-of-architecture-turns-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Aarhus School of Architecture turns 60"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AARHUS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE CELEBRATES THE BIG 6-0<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/section>\n

60 years of Architectural Education and History<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n

11.11.2025<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/main><\/div><\/div>

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Arkitektskolen Aarhus fylder 60 \u00e5r.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Today we celebrate Aarhus School of Architecture\u2019s milestone birthday at Exners Plads. Students and staff gathered in the large workshop space, MockUp, for a shared celebration with breakfast, singing, and flags \u2013 as well as a speech by Rector Kristine Leth Juul.<\/p>\n

Aarhus School of Architecture welcomed its first students in 1965 in the old buildings at N\u00f8rreport 20. It was a time of great change, both in society and at the school. The atmosphere was marked by politics, new thinking, and critique, creating the foundation for a study environment oriented toward new ideas and experimental professional currents.<\/p>\n

Rector spoke about six decades of shifting \u201cisms\u201d and trends \u2014 from the social engagement and student revolts of the 1960s and 70s to the following decades\u2019 focus on form and the architectural work itself. During those years, the architectural scene in Aarhus looked outward to the world, and the international star architects served as inspiration for many new studios in the city. In the 2000s, new technology and global movements opened up entirely new, almost boundless possibilities in terms of materials and form. In the 2010s came the hangover \u2014 marked by economic crisis and growing climate awareness.<\/p>\n

A new era<\/h5>\n

Many generations of students have completed an architecture degree at Aarhus School of Architecture \u2014 under varying admission rules, physical settings, ministries, curricula, teachers, and professional movements. The most recent major chapters include the move to the new school at Exners Plads in 2021 and the implementation of a New Curriculum \u2014 a new architecture program in 2024.<\/p>\n

Kristine spoke about our current focus, which today is turned toward materials, tactility, preservation, the embedded stories, and the cycles everything is part of \u2014 our connection to nature and to history.<\/p>\n

Rector emphasized in her speech the importance of the school as a meeting point across time and trends \u2014 what former Rector Niels Ole Lund called creating spirit<\/em>. Kristine described it like this:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe power that lies in the projects, in the will to show new paths, and in the way we come together around what truly matters. And that we do this across professions and disciplines, experiences and generations \u2013 that, in my eyes, is unique and perhaps the most important of all! For 60 years, we have created stories, experiments, discussions, and new traditions \u2013 all that has kept this creating spirit alive<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

See the photo gallery below with pictures from today\u2019s celebration and from the time at N\u00f8rreport 20. Many thanks to the former students and staff who have sent in photos.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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Rektor Kristine Leth holder tale<\/a> <\/a> Arkitektskolen Aarhus fylder 60 \u00e5r<\/a> Arkitektskolen Aarhus fylder 60 \u00e5r.<\/a> <\/a> Studerende og ansatte samlede til morgenmad i skolens mock up<\/a> <\/a> Arkitektskolen Aarhus fylder 60 \u00e5r.<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> Studerende ser pr\u00e6sentation<\/a> Billeder fra eksamenssituation p\u00e5 den gamle skole<\/a> Arkitektskolen Aarhus fylder 60 \u00e5r.<\/a> F\u00e6llessang til skolens 60 \u00e5rs f\u00f8dselsdag<\/a> Trio af bl\u00e6seinstrumenter der spiller musik<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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