About the Institute

The Institute of Architecture and Culture offers one bachelor programme and three master programmes. Across the Institute, we place special emphasis on the concept of building culture, work and site analysis, and materiality. We are both inwardly focused and outwardly engaged.

As a foundation for architectural proposals, the Institute explores the artistic, historical, and political conditions and mechanisms of architecture.

The artistic dimension is represented in our focus on architectural expression and meaning, which we seek to uncover through work and site analysis, architectural critique, and poetics as a foundation for architectural practice.

The historical dimension is reflected in our attention to how architecture is inscribed in and relates to both the field’s and society’s historical development, as well as in an active contribution to the writing of architectural history.
Integrated into this awareness, the fields of cultural heritage and restoration are maintained as part of architecture’s contribution to a sustainable building culture.

Our engagement with architecture’s political dimensions is rooted in a critical examination of the built environment’s role in societal power structures. We strive to renew architecture’s engagement with the world. As part of our field’s development, we prioritize outward-facing activities in collaboration with external stakeholders.