Jonathan M. Houser

BIOGRAPHY

I am an independent architect living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark, where I have been teaching at The Royal Academy of Art, School of Architecture since 2015.

Currently I am engaged with a project made in collaboration with director Michael Madsen to be shown at Louisiana in the fall of 2018 as part of “The Moon” exhibition.

In the spring 2016 I won the competition for a Pavilion at the art museum Gl. Holtegaard that is now built in their baroque garden. Concurrently I received a one-year working grant from the Danish Arts Council. In the fall 2016 I was awarded for my competition entry “Memorial for the Perished War Sailors 1940–45” and collaborated with director Michael Madsen on the project “Odyssey”, where I have done conceptual spaceship design for a multi-generational journey through interstellar space. My imaginary project “Island of the Dead” was shown in the Danish Pavilion at the 2016 Biennale in Venice.

Since receiving my Masters Diploma in Architecture from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 2014 I worked at Lundgaard and Tranberg, Architects where I was design architect on the winning competition for a “Museum for the Danish Resistance 1940–45” that is currently being built in the historic centre of Copenhagen. You can se that HERE. I also took part in the development of schematic design for the new “Museum of Natural History” that is about to begin construction within the Botanical Gardens in Copenhagen. You can see that HERE.

Exhibitions:

2018
The Spring Exhibition, Copenhagen, Denmark

2017
VESSELS, Leth og Gori, solo show, Copenhagen, Denmark
Fall Exhibition, Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark

2016
The Art of Many, La Biennale di Venezia, The Danish Pavilion

2015
EVA, Kunstakademien, Stockholm, Group Exhibtion, w. Mikael Stenstrøm
Fall Exhibition, Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark
One to One, The Royal Academy of Art, School of Architecture, Copenhagen

2014
End of the Year Show, The Royal Academy of Art, School of Architecture

2013
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London

Architecture competitions:

2016
“Memorial for the Perished War Sailors 1940–45”,
2nd prize (Shared) in open competition
“Moth House – A menagerie for Gl. Holtegaard”, 1st prize in open competition

2014
“The Abandoned Street”, 1st prize in open competition, collaboration with Mikael Stenstrom

Education:

2012–2014
Cand. Arch., The Royal Academy of Art, School of Architecture, Thesis advisor: Anders Abraham

2011
The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, The Cooper Union, New York

2007–2010
B. Arch., The Royal Academy of Art, School of Architecture

Vessels

Exhibition at Leth & Gori, Copenhagen, 2017
Supported by Margot og Thorvald Dreyers Fond and made at The Danish Art Workshops

Vessels is an exhibition that shows three architectural models of time and space. Three vessels, some to be understood as concrete ships for travelling, and all, as metaphorical containers of ideas about architecture.