HDCB01121U DCC Danish Architecture and Urban Design

Volume 2026/2027
Education

Danish Culture Courses

www.danishculturecourses.ku.dk

Content

The course provides an introduction to Danish architecture and urban development over the past 100 years.

In addition to lectures, students work with self-guided excursions between each lecture session. In connection with the lectures, short excursions are also made to nearby buildings and urban spaces, where teaching takes place outdoors. There is also an emphasis on active student participation, with the aim of helping students learn to discuss and analyze architecture and urban spaces.

Last but not least, the course includes two full-day bus trips: one focusing on landscape architecture and urban spaces on Zealand, and one focusing on residential architecture. The latter trip includes visits to Nordhavn, Sydhavn, and Bo01 in Malmö.

 

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Name of Exam: HDCB01121E Danish Architecture and Urban Design

Learning Outcome

At the examination, the student can demonstrate:

 

Knowledge and understanding of

  • the overall themes in a focused study area within Danish architecture and urban design during the last 100 years
  • details that are relevant to this overall context.

 

Skills in

  • applying research-based knowledge to a special topic within Danish architecture and urban design
  • understanding and reflecting on a special aspect of Danish culture
  • putting this in the perspective of e.g. European cultural history.

 

Competencies in

  • taking an analytical approach to the focused study as an element of Danish architecture and urban design.

Texts will be available online through Absalon.

The course is only offered to exchange and fee-paying guest students at the University of Copenhagen.
Lectures, class teaching, excursions and self-guided field studies
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Class Instruction
  • 28
  • Preparation
  • 338,5
  • Excursions
  • 7
  • Guidance
  • 2
  • Exam
  • 37
  • Total
  • 412,5
Written
Individual
Continuous feedback during the course of the semester
Credit
15 ECTS
Type of assessment
Home assignment, 11-15 standard pages
Type of assessment details
Written take-home assignment, optional subject.
Internal exam with one examiner.
The exam can only be taken individually.
Exam language: English
Aid
All aids allowed
Marking scale
7-point grading scale
Censorship form
No external censorship
Re-exam

Conducted in the same manner as the original exam.

Criteria for exam assesment

See Learning Outcome.