Urszula
Koźmińska
How much
do we
want to
control
architecture?
Urszula KoźmiÅ„ska is an Associate Professor at Aarhus School of Architecture. In her design practice, research, and teaching, she focuses on post-extractive architectural approaches, life cycle design strategies, adaptive and material reuse, repair, conservation, and reversibility. She examines these issues with an ecological awareness of the broader ecosystemic and transscalar connections within the design process. She is the co-author of several books: “Designing for the Climate Emergency: A Guide for Architecture Students” (RIBA Publishing), “Building + Breaking: 8 Conversations about Spatial Justice”(Danish Architectural Press), and the forthcoming “Time Matters” (Ruby Press).
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Ula invited me to Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark, less than a four-hour drive from Copenhagen, known for its pro-ecological approach and sustainability-focused narratives. I visited the school’s newly built structure, which resembles a vast workshop hall open to experimentation—not only in conceptual and design terms but also on a material level.
Courtesy of Aarhus
Architecture School
Denmark
2024
In the second part of our meeting, we talked about architecture, education, and ecological narratives within teaching and design processes.
We explored questions such as: How can we talk about time in architecture? What can we learn from the architecture of the past? How can we educate future architects without building new structures? And how can education offer a different way of seeing the world?
post-extractive
strategies
for building design
Ecologies of stone
Mares
The research in Majorca
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