Publications

The Centre for Sustainable Building Culture at the Royal Danish Academy is founded on a desire to contribute to a sustainable building culture for the future. Sustainable building culture is understood as the meaningful cultivation and holistic synthesis of technological, cultural-historical and aesthetic considerations - with care and respect for planetary boundaries.

The objective is to combine the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the consumption of material resources with the preservation and enhancement of the aesthetic qualities and cultural values of our built heritage - for the benefit of present and future generations.

Publications

Børsen, Copenhagen

This publication presents a curated selection of drawings and visualisations created by students in the master’s degree programme in Cultural Heritage, Transformation, and Conservation during the autumn of 2024. This volume features registrations and design proposals for the transformation and rebuilding of Børsen in Copenhagen.

The Danish Pavilion, Venice

This publication presents a curated selection of drawings and visualisations created by students in the master’s degree programme in Cultural Heritage, Transformation, and Conservation during the spring of 2024. This volume features registrations and design proposals for the transformation of The Danish Pavilion in Venice. 

Drawing on the Archives vol. 1/3

This publication explores how archival materials may serve as a critical basis for cultivating a sustainable building culture. The overall intention is to demonstrate how new architectural practices aimed at responding to the findings of climate science may build on a well-documented technological, historic and architectural foundation. This book is written in collaboration with Copenhagen City Archives as part of the research project ‘City Memories’.

Drawing on the Archives vol. 2/3

This publication presents a curated selection of drawings and models created by students in the master’s degree programme Cultural Heritage, Transformation and Conservation during the spring of 2022. This volume features design proposals for new entrances to the buildings of the National Museum. 

‘Drawing on the Archives’ emerges from the research project ‘City Memories’, developed in collaboration with the Copenhagen City Archives. The project explores how archival materials can serve as a critical basis for cultivating a sustainable building culture. The overall intention was to demonstrate how new architectural practices aimed at responding to the findings of climate science may build on a well-documented technological, historic and architectural foundation.

Drawing on the Archives vol. 3/3 

This publication presents a curated selection of drawings and visualizations created by students in the master’s degree programme in Cultural Heritage, Transformation, and Conservation during the autumn of 2023. This volume features design proposals for the transformation of Hans Christian Hansen’s Amager Switching Station and Gasværksvejen School. 

‘Drawing on the Archives’ emerges from the research project ‘City Memories’, developed in collaboration with the Copenhagen City Archives. The project explores how archival materials can serve as a critical basis for cultivating a sustainable building culture. The overall intention was to demonstrate how new architectural practices aimed at responding to the findings of climate science may build on a well-documented technological, historic and architectural foundation.

HANDS ON – The Value of Building Culture

This publication covers a substantive field of approaches to architectural heritage. Some articles deal with traditional design methods, material science, the history of craftsmanship and its opportunities of application in a contemporary building practice. Others focus on cultural heritage as a contemporary practice and engage with emphasising its present value. While others again engage more philosophically with aesthetic ideas and perception. 

Robust – Reflections on Resilient Architecture

This publication is concerned with the architecture of resistance, resilience and robustness as the core of heritage discourse. Researchers and PhD-fellows associated with the master’s degree programme Cultural Heritage, Transformation and Conservation at The Royal Danish Academy, present their latest research as of 2017. 

Manual (In Danish)

This publication provides an introduction to the methods used on the Master’s Programme in Cultural Heritage, Transformation and Restoration at the Royal Danish Academy, including measured surveys, analysis, heritage value assessment and phenomenological documentation.

Bonmot

In this publication, we have compiled a selection of quotations relating to the practice of architecture as an art.

Organisation

This publication provides a brief introduction to the roles, phases and contractual agreements involved in construction projects, as well as forms of consultancy and construction contracts.

On the Transformation of Building Culture (In Danish)

This publication is aimed at everyone involved in preserving and developing our building culture. The book presents a range of examples of knowledge, analyses, methods and models that can inform and enhance the management and transformation of our built heritage. On the Transformation of Building Culture is written by researchers at the Royal Danish Academy. The foreword, A Deeper Meaning, is written by Juhani Pallasmaa.

Lost & Found

This publication is an anthology containing the collective efforts of students, teachers and researchers on the master’s degree programme Cultural Heritage, Transformation and Conservation from 2010 to 2012. We decided to name this book Lost & Found because we are seeking a familiarity with approaches and narratives which may not necessarily be new but may have been forgotten. This is our attempt to identify some of these aspects once again.

Transformation 2 (In Danish)

This publication presents student projects and articles produced as part of the Master’s Programme in Cultural Heritage, Transformation and Restoration between 2011 and 2012.

Transformation (In Danish)

This publication presents student projects and articles produced as part of the Master’s Programme in Cultural Heritage, Transformation and Restoration between 2009 and 2011.

Can Lis

This publication contains measured drawings produced by students on the Master’s Programme in Cultural Heritage, Transformation and Restoration during a field trip to survey Jørn Utzon’s Can Lis. The drawings were completed in October 2009 under the supervision of Thomas Kampmann.