Job and Employment

Graduates obtain broad professional, artistic, discursive, and academic skills across a range of spatial and political problematics. We find our alumni in the fields of both artistic and academic research, architectural practices (both small and big), policy making and activism, across a broad international field.

Important capacities students develop though their education, cover artistic and academic research methods including writing and structured reading, collaborative and interdisciplinary abilities, critical thinking through theory, action, and design, as well as working situated and in close relation to stakeholders. Throughout the formative years at 'Political Architecture: Critical Sustainability', students are expected to work independent and to take a high level of responsibility for their learning, including formulating their own program and problematics/problem statements, which results in graduates with an extraordinary capability of identifying new agendas and initiating, leading, and carrying through projects.

In recent years, graduates have gone into a range of contexts, including: architectural offices such as OMA, Kengo Kuma & Associates, Caruso St John, Christensen & Co, Jaja Architects; public sector organizations such as Copenhagen Municipality, other Danish municipalities, The Agency for Culture and Palaces, Government Administration in London; research careers involving PhDs at universities such as University of California and Technische Universität Braunschweig; starting their own practices in contexts such as London, Zurich, Brussels or Copenhagen; and engaging in work for NGO’s in Denmark and internationally.

The programme has a strong alumni community, where graduates often continue to support and collaborate with each other, as well as keeping in touch with the current Political Architecture-milieu at the academy.