University of Washington CBE - Master of Architecture Intern Exchange Program

The Scan Design Foundation Master of Architecture Intern Exchange Program is by the University of Washington College of Built Environments. Inspired by the success of the existing Scan Design Foundation Denmark Intern Exchange Program with Gehl Architects, this internship exchange program offers students in the Master of Architecture program the chance to gain valuable professional experience by working in the offices of exemplary Copenhagen-based architecture firms.

All aspects of the internship program are managed by Assistant Professor Peter Cohan. For more information about this program contact Peter Cohan

Henning Larsen Architects

Beginning in the Winter of 2012, we partnered with Henning Larsen Architects to offer 6-month internships to University of Washington students.

Henning Larsen Architects is an international architecture company with strong Scandinavian roots. Their goal is to create vibrant, sustainable buildings that reach beyond themselves and become of durable value to the user and to the society and culture that they are built into. They attach great importance to designing environmentally friendly and integrated, energy-efficient solutions. Their projects are characterized by a high degree of social responsibility - not only in relations to materials and production but also in regards to building good, social and community-creating spaces.

Henning Larsen Architects is the most successful international architectural company based in Denmark with projects in more than 20 countries. The company currently employs over 165 architects, designers, builders and Engineers with offices in Copenhagen, Riyadh, Munich, and Beirut.

C. F. Møller Architects

Beginning in Spring of 2012, we partnered with C. F. Møller Architects to offer 6-month internships to University of Washington students.

C. F. Møller Architects is one of Scandinavia's oldest and largest architectural practices. Their work involves a wide range of expertise that covers programme analysis, town planning, master planning, all architectural services including landscape architecture, as well as the development and design of building components.

Simplicity, clarity and unpretentiousness, the ideals that have guided their work since the practice was established in 1924, are continually re-interpreted to suit individual projects, always site-specific and based on international trends and regional characteristics.

Over the years, they have won a large number of national and international competitions and awards. Their work has been exhibited locally as well as internationally at places like RIBA in London, the Venice Biennale, the Danish Architecture Centre and the Danish Cultural Institute in Beijing.

Today C. F. Møller Architects has approximately 300 employees. Their main offices are in Aarhus and they have branches in Copenhagen, Aalborg, Oslo, Stockholm and London.

Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter

Beginning in Winter 2012, we partnered with Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter to offer 6-month internships to University of Washington students.

Founded in June 1999 in Copenhagen, Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter is an award-winning firm 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.

COBE Architects

COBE is a progressive and contemporary community of architects that focuses on architecture and design -- from buildings to public space to large scale urban planning.

Founded in 2005 by Dan Stubbergaard and Vanessa Miriam Carlow 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.

COBE has won a number of important international competitions and has quickly gained a a reputation for its highly innovative approach to every design project. Notable COBE projects include Nordhaven, 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.

See the COBE 2020 Studio Book.

EFFEKT Architects

EFFEKT is an architectural collaborative based in Copenhagen, Denmark, operating in the fields of architecture, urbanism, and research. The company was established in 2007 and currently employs 30 full time staff under the creative direction of the two founders Tue Foged and Sinus Lynge.

EFFEKT is the Danish word for impact. EFFEKT believes that architecture and urbanism is about creating a lasting positive impact on our surroundings and our planet. They measure their projects on their impact - their EFFEKT.

They aim to create a lasting social, economic and environmental effect with every project they take on and always consider the projects in a local, regional and global context.

BIG Architects, Copenhagen, Denmark

Beginning in the Fall of 2010, we partnered with Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) to offer 6-month internships to University of Washington students. BIG receives over 100 internship applications a day!

BIG is a Copenhagen based group of over 60 architects, designers, builders, and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development. The office is currently involved in a large number of projects throughout Denmark, Scandinavia and the Middle East.

BIG’s architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes. Not least due to the influence from multicultural exchange, global economical flows and communication technologies that all together require new ways of architectural and urban organization. BIG believes that in order to deal with today’s challenges, architecture can profitably move into a field that is to a large extent unexplored pragmatic utopian architecture. This steers clear of the petrifying pragmatism of boring boxes and the naïve utopian ideas of digital formalism.

In their projects they test the effects of size and the balance of programmatic mixtures on the triple bottom line of the social, economical and ecological outcome. Like a form of programmatic alchemy they create architecture by mixing conventional ingredients such as living, leisure, working, parking and shopping. By hitting the fertile overlap between the pragmatic and the utopian, BIG architects once again find the freedom to change the surface of our Planet, to better fit contemporary life forms. In all their actions they try to move the focus from the little details to the BIG picture.

View a video of BIG founder, Bjarke Ingels, describing the design process for their 2009 "8Tallet" project: 8-House by BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group