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University of Washington CBE - Master Studio Architecture Program
Education and Career AdvancementThe University of Washington-College of Built Environments received a grant in 2010 to pilot the 2011 Scan Design Foundation by Inger & Jens Bruun Distinguished Visiting Professor Master Studio in the Department of Architecture. The Department invited Lene Tranberg, an esteemed Danish architect, to Seattle to co-teach the Master Class.
Based on the overwhelming success of the 2011 pilot program, the Foundation awarded a grant to the University of Washington-College of Built Environments in 2011 to establish The Scan Design Foundation by Inger & Jens Bruun Distinguished Visiting Professor Master Studio. The College of Built Environments invites a Danish designer/educator who has distinguished themselves through a sustained record of exemplary design work and teaching. The visiting professor co-teaches a master architecture studio at the University of Washington during Fall quarter.
The Department of Architecture assigns a regular faculty member to work with the visiting professor in establishing the logistics of the studio and continuing the work of the studio between visits. The Visiting Professor teaches the second, sixth, and 10th week of the quarter. A public lecture is also held by each architect during their visit. Rob Peña is the current program leader.
2022 Scan Design Foundation Studio: People + Planet Positive Housing
This studio worked under the guidance of Kasper Guldager Jensen, co-founder of the Danish property developer Home. Earth, and Lasse Lind, director of GXN, the research and sustainability arm of the Danish architecture studio 3XN Architects. Both firms are working on green innovation in design, exploring upcycling and design for disassembly, and applying Doughnut Economics as a framework for the development of new housing in Denmark and beyond.
The chosen site, situated in the Amager Øst neighborhood, currently hosts a kindergarten and an industrial maker’s space. The objective is to develop a mixed-use cohousing development that is people and planet positive.
The studio book developed distills concepts and ideas from the studio's site visits and the lectures presented during the two-week trip to Copenhagen in September 2022. All experts in their fields, the speakers provided insights into many dimensions of creating affordable, socially and environmentally sustainable housing in Denmark. These expert presentations formed the knowledge base for the studio and guided the research, ethnographic interviews, and the site analysis for the project.
2021 Scan Design Foundation Studio: Living Together in Railway City
The 2021 Scan Design Foundation Studio called "Living Together in Railway City" was led by Danish Architect, Erik Frandsen. The topic was inspired by the theme of the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale “How Will We Live Together?”, defined by curator Hashim Sarkis. Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects have created the contribution for the Danish Pavilion.
Erik Frandsen
Erik Frandsen is the 2021 Scan Design Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor for the Architecture Master Studio at the University of Washington. He is a Partner at Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he has been lead architect for many award winning projects such as The Danish Pavilion for the 2020 Venice Biennale; Kannikegården, New Church Hall in Ribe, Denmark, and The Dansk Bank Headquarters and the Tietgen Dormitory in Copenhagen. He has lectured in Europe and the U.S. and has served as an Architectural Competition Judge in Denmark, and guest teacher and sensor for Schools of Architecture in Iceland and France.
Lene Tranberg
Lene Tranberg, founding partner of the firm Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter, was the first Scan Design Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor. Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter is a leading Danish architectural office, practicing architecture, urbanism, landscape, product and furniture design. For over more than 20 years, the firm has gained prestige through participation in competitions and the realization of a wide range of projects, positioning themselves as one of Denmark's most renowned and award-winning architectural offices.
The office has also taken part in a series of research and pilot building projects focused on the improvement of building products and processes, with a concentration on sustainable housing. In addition to being known for innovative and original architecture, the office has established a reputation for leadership and collaboration in project realization.
Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects' work has won various national and international prizes and has been published in books and periodicals worldwide. For three years running, the office has received the prestigious "RIBA European Award" from the Royal Institute of British Architects - in 2006 for the Copenhagen Business School faculty building, in 2007 for the Tietgen Dormitory, and in 2008 for the new Royal Playhouse in Copenhagen.
Lene Tranberg was the distinguished visiting professor for the Scan Design Foundation Master Studio Program that the UW College of Built Environments Department of Architecture in 2011 and in 2018.
Lene Tranberg Master Studio Publications:
Dorte Mandrup-Poulsen
Dorte Mandrup-Poulsen, the principal partner at Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter, was the second Scan Design Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor. Founded in June 1999 in Copenhagen, Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter is an award-winning firm based in Copenhagen that engages in a wide variety of projects, including housing, master plans and office buildings. Among their notable projects are the Holmbladsgade Sports and Cultural Center, the Holmbladsgade Community Center, the Herstedlund Cultural Center, and the renovation of Arne Jacobsen's historic Munkegårdsskole. They also recently converted the Jægersborg Water Tower into a mixed-use building with a youth centre and residences, where common balconies add new sculptural layers that enhance the distinctive character of the tower.
In 2012, Dorte Mandrup taught a Master Architecture Studio during Spring Quarter at the University of Washington with Associate Professor Peter Cohan. The project for the studio was to develop a public program for a complex site in an underserved part of Seattle with the intent of engaging and activating the neighborhood around it.
Dorte Mandrup taught another Master Architecture Studio with Peter Cohan during the Spring Quarter of 2013 at the University of Washington. The primary goal of the studio was to examine how we can shape architectural ideas to reinforce the human scale and space of the city. The studio proposed design solutions for the Belltown Bluff portion of the Seattle Waterfront Plan that connect to the waterfront and the already developed portions of the plan, while providing amenities for and responding to the existing neighborhood context.
Dorte Mandrup-Poulsen Master Studio Publications:
Erling Christoffersen
Erling Christoffersen is a professor at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS) in Denmark. His training as both a cabinetmaker and an architect allows him to teach prototyping as a part of the design process. In his furniture design courses, workshops, and master classes, the emphasis is on the study of materials such as solid timber, plywood, and veneer in order to challenge the materials and find the design that can best expose their inner qualities - to put it simply, "to ask what the materials want".
The furniture design studio was co-taught with Associate Professor, Kimo Griggs, during Winter Quarter 2014. The studio required that each student design, develop, and finish a full-scale piece of furniture. Erling Christoffersen held a public lecture on February 5th 2014 in Seattle during his visit.
Erling Christoffersen - UW Department of Architecture Lecture Series from UW College of Built Environments on Vimeo.
Dan Stubbergaard
Dan Stubbergaard is the founder and creative director of COBE Architects in Copenhagen. COBE is an international architecture and design office whose mission is to contribute to the creation of more decent, equitable, beautiful, and sustainable cities. The company seeks to develop specific, innovative solutions that encompass the fields of architecture, strategic urban planning, landscape design, and research.
Since its inception in 2005, COBE has won a number of important international competitions and has quickly gained a reputation for its highly innovative approach to every design project. Notable COBE projects include Nordhavnen, the largest metropolitan redevelopment project in Scandinavia, Nørreport Train Station in the centre of Copenhagen, and the ROCKmagnet, Denmark's museum of rock music in Roskilde.
In addition to his architectural practice, Dan has taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and lectures internationally on COBE's current projects.
Dan Stubbergaard was the distinguished visiting professor in 2015, 2017, and 2020. In the Spring of 2017, the theme for his studio was "Our Urban Living Room," which represented the growing need for public urban spaces. "Our Urban Living Room" is also the name of Stubbergaard's new book. At the beginning of the quarter, students took a trip to visit their project sites in Nordhavn, Copenhagen. Each site required students to explore transportation infrastructure, creating new cultural space for social interaction, and transforming existing buildings.
During the autumn of 2020, Dan Stubbergaard returned to the University of Washington in Seattle as the Distinguished Visiting Professor. Stubbegaard taught a Master Studio with Associate Professor, Peter Cohan, in the Department of Architecture. The topic of this studio was City Factory where students had to design a production facility for the fabrication and assembly of large-scale building components for a neighborhood in Denmark called Nordhavn.
Dan Stubbergaard public lectures in Seattle:
Dan Stubbergaard Master Studio Publications:
Sinus Lynge and Tue Hesselberg Foged
Sinus Lynge and Tue Hesselberg Foged are founding partners of EFFEKT Architects. EFFEKT is an architectural collaborative based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The firm has won multiple commissions for architecture, urban design, and re-use projects. They aim to make their work have a lasting, positive impact and always consider their projects within a range of contexts: the local, regional, and global impacts.
2016 was the first year that the Visiting Professorship was awarded to two people. UW Seattle students took a 10-day trip to Copenhagen where they visited the EFFEKT office and were introduced to their #KøbenhavnForAlle project. The purpose of the project was to design "a housing block that mixed young and old, rich and poor, students and families, retirees and immigrants." Sinus and Tue split the quarter between them, with Sinus coming to Seattle in April and Tue arriving in Seattle in May.
In Fall 2019, Sinus Lynge and Tue Hesselberg Foged returned to the Visiting Professorship.
Public Lectures in Seattle and the 2016 Studio Book by Tue Hesselberg Foged and Sinus Lynge:
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