Architecture, Culture and Environment
The division of Architecture, Culture and Environment explores and communicates architecture from a broad cultural-historical and socially critical perspective.
Culture and environment are heterogeneous concepts in continuous change. This complexity is studied through the discipline of architecture: How does architecture contribute to the production of cultures and environments? And on the other hand, how are cultural context and the environment forging architecture?
The division focuses on architecture as a cultural practice that instigates life-worlds through built and imagined architecture. By combining artistic and creative methods with ideological critique, the division aims to develop perspectives on climate change, sustainability, and democratic welfare infrastructures through education and research. Essential explorative themes in the division are contemporary history – a historical awareness of contemporary issues – and architecture as a profession, discipline, and cultural expression. Through drawings, full-scale buildings, models, and texts, various ideological systems and the influence of power structures on architecture are examined, and conversely, architecture's reproduction of these systems and structures.