JUUL&FROST Architects, Kopenhagen
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SIGNATURE - dialogue-based strategies of design
The exhibition takes place under the auspices of the Danish Embassy Berlin and is representing designs of buildings, urban and landscape architecture of Juul & Frost Architects who are developing their national and international projects in various scales. The partners Helle Juul and Flemming Frost have been busy contributing assignment solutions from dialogue-based consultancy to concrete planning, designing and realization of architecture. The signature of their work is the discussion about context and scale with respect to urban time and space. Juul & Frost manifest their professional conceptual foundation through a philosophical and theoretical approach to architecture. There is a focus on the architectonic idea, which is consistently pursued and tested throughout the entire course of the project. The origin of their work was established through the editorial responsibilities for the Danish journal of architecture, SKALA, and the running of an architectural gallery, also known as SKALA, at the end of the nineteen-eighties. In the nineteen-nineties, Juul & Frost continued working as curators of large scale urban exhibitions, symposia and workshops known as SKAZKI Architecture Forum.Comprehensively unified planning and the contextual angle stand as indispensable points of reference for Juul & Frost, regardless of the assignment's scale.
The exhibition will focus on four projects:
1. Q-BOOKs, a large scale urban project for the University Island, Malm¯ 1997- 2001,
2. Urban development strategy for Copenhagen Inner harbour 2002-2003,
3. "BBB, Better, inexpensive housingî 2002-2004, where the participants were asked to adress the basic concepts of the Charter 99 dogma and respect a maximum square meter cost of ? 600. Phase I, 80 homes out of 300, is under construction,
4. Chapterhouse for Sorgenfri, addition to an existing church. Realized 2002.
curriculum:
Helle Juul & Flemming Frost, were born in 1954 & 1952, studied architecture and urban development at the School of Architecture in Aarhus. They have been the editor and director of SKALA Architectural Magazine and Gallery in Copenhagen 1985 -1992, taugth at the Royal Academy, visiting professors at Pratt University New York, guestsprofessor and professor at Lund University, and Konstakademien Stockholm, Sweden. Recently guest professor at RMIT, Melbourne.
