CAFx 2021 - Copenhagen Architecture Festival 2021

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Today is the start of CAFx 2021 ... the Copenhagen Architecture Festival.

There is an extensive programme of events in Copenhagen and Aarhus with films, discussions, performances, lectures, architects opening their studios and offices for events and a number of city walks.

The theme for the festival this year is Landscapes of Care and that is divided into four areas covering ….

Portraits, projects and practices
Diversity and community
Health and architecture
From climate sinner to climate agent

 events include:

  • the premier of a film portrait of Dorte Mandrup from the Louisiana video series

  • a short festival of films by David Lynch including screenings of the films Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway

  • tour of Christianshavn to look at how culture, community and individualism have moulded the urban landscape with discussion on how the life of the street has been "sanitised and tamed".

  • Jan Gehl and Peter Thule Kristensen discuss how urban spaces develop

  • The Battle for the Square Meters - a discussion on the framework for community-orientated activities in Copenhagen’s urban spaces

  • a none-rave rave in the courtyard of Thorvaldsens Museum

  • Cities for Free - film and debate about the urban development of the city in the future with a focus on Lynetteholm

  • Diagnoses: The space of the psyche from the Victorian to the welfare society

  • Brumleby by Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll - housing built following the outbreak of cholera in 1853 - a tour including the co-operative association building museum

  • Aesthetics for care - a talk on how art has an impact on well being

  • Frederiksberg Hospital - a landscape of care - how to preserve the cultural history as the site is redeveloped

  • Bispebjerg Healing Garden - from 1913 by Martin Nyrop and the garden designer Edvard Glæsel

  • Landscape of care in the post pandemic city - an event organised by Emergency Architecture and Human Rights

  • Creating resilience - changing coastal landscapes - a discussion about current research on the impact of climate change on the coastline of Amager

Copenhagen Architectural Festival
7 October - 17 October 2021

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Copenhagen Architecture Festival 2018

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13th April 2018

Copenhagen Architecture Festival opens on the 3rd May and continues through to 16th May 2018. 

Yesterday the full programme was launched on line and this year, for the first time, there will be events in Odense as well as Copenhagen, Aarhus and Aalborg … all cities with a “strong architectural identity.”

The theme for this year is HOUSING HOMES / AT HUSE HJEM with lectures, film screenings, exhibitions, workshops and guided tours to look at ideas of home, housing and belonging … “to look at what constitutes a home, what does it mean to be home, and how homes are created in different and difficult situations.”

The ambition of the festival “has always been to share architecture with a wide audience by being unpretentious, curious, and bringing a new perspective to the table. We want to create new encounters between subjects, people, and ideas in the city’s space. The intention is for architecture to act as a character in the dialogue through the audience’s personal experiences of the spaces. Architecture is thus for everyone- not just for architects.”

 

download the programme from CAFx