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Teaching Associate Professor
Head of Program
Institute of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape
Martin Marker
My research explores how architecture can operate as cultural infrastructure, engaging questions of typology, inclusion, transformation and collective space. Moving between practice, pedagogy and theory, I investigate how drawing, design and spatial strategies can act as operative tools in times of environmental, social and political change.
Martin Marker
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“Architecture is not only about building. It is about shaping the conditions for the common life of tomorrow”
Temporary train station at Roskilde Festival
Image by Rasmus Hjortshøj
Image by Rasmus Hjortshøj
Image by Rasmus Hjortshøj
Image by Rasmus Hjortshøj
Image by Rasmus Hjortshøj
The project explores collaborative architectural practice through full‑scale, real‑world projects. A key example is the temporary train station for Roskilde Festival 2025, developed through co‑creation between architecture students, carpentry apprentices, festival organizers, engineers, and infrastructure partners. The project challenges the notion of the architect as a solitary author and positions architectural practice as a shared, negotiated, and pedagogical process producing complex, high‑performing temporary infrastructure.
Semester responsible:
Martin Marker
Morten Meldgaard
Alex lee
Student Cohort:
3.th semester Complexity & Practice, 2025-2026
Archive of Contextualism (editor)
Researchers and educators affiliated with the bachelor program Complexity Management in Practice at the Royal Danish Academy’s Institute of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape have come together to write an anthology that poses the question: How do we relate to what already exists?
Contributing to the ongoing debate on the major transformation facing the architectural profession, the book focuses on what happens before the architect draws the first lines. What does context mean? And what is our role within a broader ecology that includes humans, animals, and the planet’s existing ecosystems?
The book presents 11 unique voices, each offering their own perspective on how architects today engage with the already existing world.
Link to Danish Architectural Press: https://arkitektensforlag.dk/shop/p/aoc
