Early Modern Re-appropriations of History and the Architecture of Lauritz de Thurah

The Master's programme 'Spatial Design' are hosting an open lecture on the Danish architect Lauritz de Thurah. 

The Danish architect, officer and topographer Lauritz de Thurah (1706-1759) defined himself as an architect working according to the rules of modern architecture. However, most of Thurah’s works consisted of transformations or re-used existing structures and materials.

Though Thurah used a system that drew on ancient Greek and Roman architecture, he was broadly interested in history and aware of context issues when dealing with medieval architecture too in a period when a ‘historical mindset’ was not yet fully developed.

This talk is part of the master’s programme Spatial Design’s lecture series about re-appropriation of historical spaces.

About Peter Thule Kristensen
Peter Thule Kristensen is professor of history of architecture and interiors at the Royal Danish Academy, where he also leads the Master’s programme Spatial Design. In addition, he is a core scholar at the interdisciplinary center of excellence Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen, where he supervises a team of architectural historians who explore early modern notions of privacy. Kristensen is a trained architect. In 2004 he became PhD in architectural history at the Royal Danish Academy, in 2014 dr.phil. at Art History at Aarhus University. He has among others written and edited monographs on Danish 19th and 18th century architects: Gottlieb Bindesbøll, Vilhelm Klein, and most recently Lauritz de Thurah (1706-1759).