Architecture
Architecture is a multidimensional and complex story of how earthlings live together.
Architecture is a multidimensional and complex story of how earthlings live together.
The global population is at a turning point, faced with great challenges. Environmental disasters, mass migration, pandemics, and injustice. Architecture, like any other profession, must face its responsibility and act. Architects must rethink, revisit, reuse, and reform their methods, focusing on justice for the environment and mankind. This will only happen through conscience and bravery, with radical practice. Great architecture of the future will certainly entail aesthetical design, but no architecture is good architecture without responsibility and responsible agency.
In our study program, we seek to provide the tools, methods, and platforms to develop and mature that agency. Students are invited to critically examine and strengthen their role as architects and designers. We will analyze and experiment with our subjects to facilitate a well-informed design process.
The focus of the BA-program in Architecture is twofold. On one hand, we ask what architecture is, we investigate the language and basic tools of the profession, design processes and are introduced to architectural theories. We open our minds towards abstraction, conceptualization, and critical analysis. On the other hand, students are invited to investigate their own tone and vocation, as agents, thinkers, and designers. Put briefly, the focus can be summarized by two questions: What is architecture – and how do I go about it?
Hildigunnur Sverrisdóttir Head of the Architecture Department