The Aarhus School of Architecture (Arkitektskolen Aarhus) was founded in 1966 in Århus, Denmark

Denmark

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. Along with the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

, it is responsible for the education of architect

Architect

An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

s in Denmark. The school has around 900 students.

Internationally successful practices such as 3XN

3XN

3XN is a Danish architectural practice with head office in Copenhagen.-History:The company was founded in Århus in 1986 as Nielsen, Nielsen & Nielsen by Kim Herforth Nielsen, Lars Frank Nielsen og Hans Peter Svendler Nielsen. The latter left the company, which is today led by a partner group of...

, schmidt hammer lassen

Schmidt hammer lassen

Schmidt hammer lassen architects is an international architectural practice founded in 1986 in Aarhus, Denmark. It currently has four offices in Aarhus, Copenhagen, Oslo and London....

 and CEBRA

CEBRA

CEBRA is a Danish architectural practice founded in Århus in 2001 by the architects Mikkel Frost, Carsten Primdahl and Kolja Nielsen. The practice is primarily occupied with building design but over the last few years an increasing number of planning projects has been developed in the office as...

 are among the architectural firms originating in the creative environment at the school.

Departments

• Department of Architecture
• Department of Landscape and Urbanism
• Department of Architectural Heritage
• Department of Design

Notable Alumni

• Kim Herforth Nielsen
  Kim Herforth Nielsen
  Kim Herforth Nielsen is a Danish architect, co-founder and principal of 3XN.-Biography:Nielsen graduated from the Aarhus School of Architecture in 1981 and was one of the three Nielsen-founders in 1986...
  
  
• Mikkel Frost
  Mikkel Frost
  Mikkel Frost : Danish architect, Educated at the Aarhus School of Architecture 1996. Co-founder of the architectural practice CEBRA in 2001.-Projects:*Landsbyhuset, Gyrstinge, Denmark 2010*Kloden, Hou, Denmark 2009...
  
  
• Carsten Primdahl
  Carsten Primdahl
  Carsten Primdahl : Danish architect, educated at the Aarhus School of Architecture 1998. Co-founder of the architectural practice CEBRA in 2001.- Ekstern henvisning :*...
  
  
• Kolja Nielsen
  Kolja Nielsen
  Kolja Nielsen : Danish architect, Educated at the Aarhus School of Architecture 1996. Co-founder of the architectural practice CEBRA in 2001.- Ekstern henvisning :*...