education
1985 – 1992        Diploma (m.arch.: Master degree of Architecture) from Arkitektskolen i Aarhus, Denmark.
1988                    Student (gasthörer) at Düsseldorf Kunstakademie, Germany.
1980 – 1982       Technical Assistant (Building and Construction Line) from Horsens Tekniske Skole, Denmark.
teaching
2007 –                Studio and course at the Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, North Dakota State University,                                Fargo, North Dakota.
2000 – 2007      Studio and course at College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia.
1995 – 2000       Studio at the School of Architecture, Royal Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark.
1998 – 1999        Studio at Arkitektskolen i Aarhus, School of Architecture, Århus, Denmark.
selected workshops
2010                     Workshop at University of Applied Sciences, Potsdam, Germany. 
                             Workshop at New York Institute of Technology, New York.
2007                    Workshop at the Research and Demonstration Facility at Virginia Tech.
2006                    Workshop with Raoul Bunschoten and Joshua Bolchover at University of Buffalo, NY.
2003                    Workshop with visiting instructor Clive Vorster at Virginia Tech, VA.
1999                     Workshop with Marcy Gow at Kungl Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm, Sweden.
1998                     Workshop with Raoul Bunschoten at Berlage Institute of Architecture, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
                             Workshop at Kungl Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm, Sweden.
                             Workshop at Umeå Konsthögskolan in collaboration with the Designskolan, Umeå, Sweden.
1997                     Workshop at Arkitektskolen i Aarhus, School of Architecture, Århus, Denmark.
1995                     Workshop at Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole, School of Architecture, Royal Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen,                                       Denmark.
1994                     Workshop at Arkitektskolen i Aarhus, School of Architecture, Århus, Denmark.
1993                     Workshop with Alain Chiaradia at Architectural Association, London, Great Britain.
1991                      Workshop with Raoul Bunschoten at Hochschule für angewandte Kunst, Wien, Austria.
selected work and contracts
2010 – 2014         Construction and renovation of the Cloud House, a sustainable building designed for extreme cold-weather                                          climate in a flood-zone, including applied research for concrete cast in fabric form, Fargo, North Dakota. 
1998 – 2001         Completion of Villa S, a house for Suna & Jan Sørensen, including minimal cast structures in white ferro-cement,                                  Sjelle, Denmark.
2000                    Contract and in collaboration with architect Anders Munck and architect Leif Gjerding Jørgensen: Design for two                                  tables, a stair, and a bench made in concrete for a Japanese restaurant in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1998                     Contract and in collaboration with architect Merete Mollerup and architect Tanja Jordan: Design for two tables in                                  ferro-cement and for the exhibition ‘Hjem til Fremtiden’ (Home for the future). Dans Arkitekturcenter Gammel                                      Dok (Danish Architecture Center Gammel Dok), Copenhagen, Denmark.
1996                     Contract to make the exhibition ‘Danish architects in foreign counties’ in the Museum of Art in Århus (Århus                                          Kunstbygning), Denmark. Project in white concrete, stainless-steel, and glass.
1993 – 1995         Contract at the office of architect Oswald Matias Ungers GmbH in Berlin, Germany. I was involved in the                                                execution of; Familiengericht, Friedrichstraßepassage, and Messe Berlin.
1987 – 1997          Founded together with Gilbert Hansen, Leif Høgfeldt Hansen, and Peter Mandal Hansen the theoretically-based                                  architectural magazine B.
selected publications and conferences
2014                    The paper ‘Fieldwork: The House as a Camera’ written in collaboration with Meghan Duda, artist, was presented                                   and published at: ACSA 2014 Fall Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia Dalhousie University. Page 16-23
2013                    The text ‘Leftovers’ written in collaboration with Anders Krüger, artist, was published in the Italian architecture                                       magazine San Rocco, What’s wrong with the primitive hut? Vol. 8. Page 212-216. ISSN 2038-4912.
                            The paper ‘How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Structures’ was published in the proceedings for ‘Actions:                                   Making of Place’ by The National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS) at Temple University                                     Philadelphia, PA. Page 451-454. Including a poster  ‘Structure, Exploration and Making’. Page 594-595. April 11th                                 to 13th. 
2011                     The paper ‘Structure & Pedagogics - or how to teach structure in architecture’ was published in ‘Convergence +                                   Confluence’ by the Building Technology Educators' Society (BTES) at a conference in Toronto. Page 283-290.                                      ISBN 978-1-257-93941-1.
2009                   The poster, ‘Plywood’, was submitted in 2009 to the ACSA, Materials topic for the 98th ACSA Annual Meeting                                       Poster Session in New Orleans. The poster was presented at the ACSA conference from March 4th to 7th 2010 in                               New Orleans.
                            The poster, ‘The technè of a line’, was submitted in 2009 to the ACSA, Media Investigations topic for the 98th                                       ACSA Annual Meeting Poster Session in New Orleans. The work presented was originally from a competition                                     proposal created in collaboration with professor Margarita McGrath at Virginia Tech. The poster was presented at                               the ACSA conference from March 4th to 7th 2010 in New Orleans.
2008                   The poster, ‘1000 bricks or how can a modular system address knowledge, craft, art and pedagogy at the same                                   time?’, was selected for presentation at the ACSA, 2009 Southeast Fall Conference: Architecture is a Thing of Art                               at the Savannah College of Art and Design, and published in the book ‘Architecture is a Thing of Art’. Editors:                                       Alexis Gregory, Matthew Dudzik. Savannah College of Art and Design. Page 374-375. ISBN 978-0-615-31790-8.
2007                   The project ‘Ivan Léonidov and the Parachute Pavilion’ was published in the book "Coney Island: The Parachute                                   Pavilion Competition" selected from a pool of 864 entries in a public architecture competition. Publisher:                                             Princeton Architectural Press and the Van Alen Institute in New York. ISBN-10: 1568986238. ISBN-13: 978-                                           1568986234. 
2002                   Published in the book ‘The Secret of the Shadow – Light and Shadow in Architecture’ by ‘Deutsches Architektur                                   Museum’ in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, with the installation ‘Systems, proportions, blocks and shadows’. Page                                 199. ISBN-10: 3803006228, ISBN-13: 978-3803006226.
selected exhibitions
2012                    Organized a display of architectural investigations executed by 3rd year students from studio fall 2011. Their                                         sketches, photographs and models was on display at the North Dakota Museum of Art in Grand Forks. The                                         exhibition was titled “McCanna House Studies: Explorations of Studios and Living Spaces by NDSU Architecture                                 Students” (12/2 - 18/3).
2011                     Organized a display of 55 Popsicle Stick Towers done by students in the architectural structures course. The                                        exhibition was on display in the main lobby of the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, North Dakota (4/7 - 4/12). 
2009                   Exhibition of a photographic project in the main gallery at the Spirit Room on Broadway downtown Fargo. A                                          photographic exploration of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada with collaborator Meghan Duda (10/3-12/30).
                            Organized a display of structural investigations done by students in the architectural structures course. The                                           exhibition was on display at the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, North Dakota (2/27).
                            Organized drawings, models and photos and designed and executed  plinths for an exhibition on the 5th floor of                                 the Renaissance Hall at the Department of Architecture & Landscape Architecture, NDSU for architect David                                       Salmela, Duluth, Minnesota. (02/17-03/1).
2008                   Organized a display of explorations in the casting of tiles in concrete. The tiles was done by students and was on                                 display on the plaza in front of the Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in the Renaissance                                   Hall, Fargo, North Dakota (10/27-11/17).
                            Organized a display of explorations in wooden popsicle stick towers created and made by students from the                                         Architectural Structures course at the “Hjemkomst Center” in Mooorhead, Minnesota (3/15-3/19).
2007                   Organized a display of flat concrete panels and 3-dimensional concrete cubes from a seminar done by 3rd, 4th                                     and 5th year students. The display was placed in a lobby shared by the Department of Architecture and                                               Landscape Architecture and the Visual Arts Department at NDSU downtown Fargo, North Dakota (12/2-12/3).
2005                   Organized a display of 1000 brick in the exhibition hall and lobby at the College of Architecture and Urban Design,                               at Virginia Tech. The 2nd year students in the fall studio made 1000 bricks in a material selected by them (10/2-                                   10/5).
                            Exhibition of a competition proposal for the Coney Island Parachute Pavilion Competition in New York at the Van                                   Alen Institute Gallery in Chelsea, 30 W. 22nd St, New York (8/26 – 10/31).
2004                   Exhibition of a project for the lake shore drive in Chicago done in collaboration with architect and professor                                          Margarita McGrath at the Chicago Architecture Foundation (3/26 – 5/2).
2002                   Exhibition at ‘Deutsches Architektur Museum’ in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, with the installation and proposal                                     ‘Systems, proportions, blocks and shadows’. The installation with other contributors was published in the book                                   ‘The Secret of the Shadow – Light and Shadow in Architecture’ (3/23 – 6/16).
selected lectures
2010                   ‘Own work’ - lecture at School of Architecture at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania (03/30).
                           ‘Making and Craft in Architecture’ - lecture at Parsons, The New School For Design in New York, NY (03/29).
                           ‘Own work’ - lecture at the Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville (03/01).
                           ‘Ferro-cement and concrete’ - lecture at Fay Jones School of Architecture, University of Arkansas in Fayetteville                                    (03/01).
                           ‘Architecture in Prague’ - lecture at the Department of Art & Design, Minnesota State University in Moorhead                                          (02/20).
2008                  ‘Casting concrete and details’ - lecture at the “Precision in Making Symposium at Parsons, The New School in New                              York, NY (01/25).
                           ‘Architectural Wonders in Denmark’ - lecture at the Hjemkomst Center in Moorhead (06/28).
professional registration and associations:
2011                    Member of the Building Technology Educators' Society (BTES), USA.
2000                  Member of the ‘Architects’ Association of Denmark’ (the title m.a.a. is my professional registration in Denmark and                                EU).
1999                    Member of ‘Society of Art’ (Kunstnersamfundet) at the Royal Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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