Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole


Royal Danish Academy – Architecture is an institution of higher education in Copenhagen, Denmark. Established in 1754, it is one of the oldest architecture schools in the world.

Structure

Royal Danish Academy – Architecture has four institutes, operating independently of each other. The school offers five three-year bachelor's degree programs and fourteen two-year master's degree programs. The institutes also host researchers and doctoral students through six research centers.

Institutes

Bachelor degree programs

  • Architecture's Anatomy and Fabrication
  • City and Country
  • Taking Place
  • Whole and Part
  • Complexity Handling in Practice

Master degree programs

  • Architecture and Extreme Environments
  • Architecture & Landscape
  • Settlement, Ecology & Tectonics
  • Computation in Architecture
  • Creative Biofabrication
  • Furniture Design - Products, Materials and Contexts
  • Critical Symbiosis
  • Cultural Heritage, Transformation and Conservation
  • Art and Architecture
  • Planetary Boundaries
  • Political Architecture: Critical Sustainability
  • Spatial Design - Architecture, Design and Interiors
  • Strategic Design & Entrepreneurship - Architecture, Design and Business
  • Urbanism and Societal Change

Research centers

  • Center for Sustainable Building Culture
  • CINARK - Center for Industrialised Architecture
  • Center for Interior Studies
  • CITA - Centre for Information Technology and Architecture
  • Centre for Visibility Design
  • KLOTHING - Centre for Apparel, Textiles & Ecology Research
The Head of Center of CITA, Professor Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, received the Danish Council for Independent Research's EliteForsk Prize in 2016, becoming the first architectural researcher to receive the award.