Public PhD-defence: Small Town Architecture

Morten Birk Jørgensen defends the dissertation Small-Town Architecture. Three Critiques on Architecture as an Instrument for Regional Development in Peripheral Small-towns. 

Agenda

13:00 Welcome and presentation of chairman, assessment committee, supervisors and author

13:05  Morten Birk Jørgensen presents his dissertation Small-Town Architecture. Three Critiques on Architecture as an Instrument for Regional Development in Peripheral Small-towns

13:50 Short break

According to the ’Ministerial Order on the PhD Course of Study and the PhD Degree’ the chair may invite the audience to contribute with short statements. Such intentions should be addressed to the chair during the break.

14:00 Laura Lieto, Professor, Department of Architecture Federico II University, Napoli, Italy

14:30 Erik Fenstad Langdalen, Professor, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway

15:00 Jens Kvorning, Professor, Institut of Architecture and Culture, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (chair of the assessment committee)

15:30 Comments from the auditorium

The assessment committee evaluates and makes the concluding remarks

Closure of session 

                         Assessment committee

Laura Lieto, Professor, Department of Architecture Federico II University, Napoli, Italy

Erik Fenstad Langdalen, Professor, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway

Jens KvorningProfessor, Institut of Architecture and Culture, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation

Supervisors

Christoffer Harlang, Professor, Institut of Architecture and Culture, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation 

Thomas Juel Clemmensen, Teaching Associate Professor, PhD, Aarhus School of Architecture

Chair of the defense 

Christoffer HarlangProfessor, Institut of Architecture and Culture, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation 

The thesis is the result of a Ph.D.-studio financed by Realdania and Institut of Architecture and Culture, KADK

The thesis is available to look through for interested persons at the Library of Architecture, Design and Performing Arts, Danneskiold-Samsøes Allé 50, 1434 Copenhagen K.