I am architect living and working in Copenhagen, currently running my own architecture studio alongside teaching at The Royal Academy of Art, School of Architecture. Before founding my own practice I worked at Lundgaard and Tranberg Arkitekter.
The driving force in my work is the search for ideas that can act as the foundation of each project – one clear idea for every project that holds the promise of unfolding a world unique to the task at hand.
Depending on the requirements of the individual project I engage in collaborative work with various professionals from the fields of art, science and engineering in order to give client and project the highest level of professional advice.
I am currently engaged with the artistic research project MINIATURA together with Christian Vennerstrøm (bahraini – danish), a small vacation home in Denmark and the exhibition project “Jävla Kritiker” in Oslo, Norway. In addition my fingers are crossed for the funding of the project “MIND” done in collaboration with Claus Pryds Architects.
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 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 under construction within the Botanical Gardens in Copenhagen. You can see that HERE.
Exhibitions:
2020
Jävla Kritiker, ROM for kunst og arkitektur, Oslo, Norway
2018
The Spring Exhibition, Copenhagen, Denmark The Moon, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
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:
2020
“The Edge/Kanten”, While we Wait for the Water/Mens vi venter på vandet, 2nd prize in open competition in collaboration with Jonas Johansen
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
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Competition proposal, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2016
Collaborator: Mikael Stenström
Vores forslag til den nye kirke udspænder fortællingen om kirken ved vandet mellem to verdener: Den retvinklede og rationelle som er en naturlig forlængelse af byens formsprog og dens profane liv, og den æterisk formløse, som rummer det religiøse rum.
Dette kontrastfyldte spændingsfelt er en arkitektonisk refleksion af kirkens dobbelte liv, mellem på den ene side det praktiske og sociale arbejde i samfundet, og på den anden side det åndlige og immaterielle liv som knytter sig til religionen.
Konkret består forslaget i sin hovedidé således af to bygningsvoluminer. En som er enkel og rationel og en som er organisk og formløs. Den profane del er således repræsenteret som et bygningsvolumen, hvis form er retvinklet, rationel og stående på jorden. Denne del af kirken rummer alle de praktiske funktioner og kulturrummet.
Den kirkelige del henter sin form og geometri fra vandet og himlen, eller med andre ord, fra det formløse ophøjede og uendelige – alt det som ligger uden for vores fatteevne. Kirkens form repræsenterer det, som ligger uden for hverdagens rationelle logik, og med sin placering direkte i vandet tydeliggøres dette forhold.
Opdelingen er meget lig den man finder i traditionelle kirker, der ofte er delt mellem en kirke og et menighedshus. De to dele knyttes sammen af et materialefælleskab, de er begge bygget af de samme teglsten, og en lav mellembygning, der forbinder dem funktionelt via kulturhusets forrum og kirkens våbenhus.