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The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts also includes the Academy Council, The Art Academy’s School of Visual Arts, the School of Curator Studies, the Library and the School of Architecture. The Academy of Art was founded in 1754 and recently celebrated its 250th anniversary.
The Academy’s School of Architecture is located in Holmen, Denmark among a number of creative learning institutions and businesses in an outstanding study milieu, in which city, harbour, canals and campus are ingrained with exceptional qualities. The meeting of the city's present development around the harbour and the historic section of Copenhagen unfolds right before the school’s warehouse gates, and the institution seeks to raise architectural debate to the highest level.
The architecture students, teachers, researchers and staff are involved in a tight network with both national and international educational elites, and our level of ambition for research and education concerning architecture are professionally high.
In our plan for 2010, the school’s business-oriented aspect is formulated as follows: “The Copenhagen School of Architecture is tightly bound to professional architecture and contributes to the development of the industry.”
The goal strengthening the school’s business-oriented aspect is both to prepare students for the realities of the profession following graduation, and to ensure that they gain the knowledge and personal experience that make it easier to direct study-related efforts and activities towards practice.
The School of Architecture’s business-oriented approach is traditionally strong. The education stems from the trade, and historically, there is a close connection between the trade’s practitioners, their professional organisation and education. Today, there is a finely meshed network of high-grade personal convergence between the profession’s foremost practitioners on one side, and the educational instructors and researchers on the other:
- Through teachers, of whom more than 90% directly or indirectly take part in business practices.
- Through project work, which makes up approximately 80% of the studies, and whose processes and achieved qualifications refer more to business practice than to general academic routines and qualifications.
- Through course instruction on the relationship between design, communication, project work, framework conditions, process management and cooperation with other professional groups.
- Through assessments in which evaluation material in all cases consists of project assignments that greatly correspond to those of business (the introductory phases).
- Through internships – approximately 50% of the students take internships with architecture firms or the like while studying.
- Through shorter or longer employment with architecture firms while studying – the school has no documentation of the exact extent, but it is substantial.
- Through final business-oriented instructional activities.
- Through direct collaboration with business in research, instructional and study projects. |
