Aarhus School of Architecture

Aarhus School of Architecture is an academy of arts, music and design in Aarhus, in the Central Denmark region. It sits in the Nørre Stenbro neighbourhood on Nørreport, in a campus that combines Raae's House, a listed Neoclassical brick merchant's house from 1798, with a newer building from 1997 that holds an auditorium and an exhibition hall. The school has since moved to a new building in the Godsbanearealerne area of the city, described as Denmark's first new-built school of architecture.

Founded in 1965, the school shares responsibility for educating architects in Denmark with the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture in Copenhagen. It has around 750 students. It is an educational institution under the Danish Ministry for Science, Innovation and Higher Education.

Teaching is studio-based, built around group work and project work, with an emphasis on practice while keeping an artistic approach to architecture. Students' design projects carry the teaching, and every project gets individual supervision. The school stresses close dialogue between teachers and students, and teaches students to master space, form and composition, with a thorough understanding of materiality. Work is organised around research labs, and workshop facilities let students test ideas in 3D and at 1:1. There is a specialised library, a materials shop and a robot lab. Research is largely practice-based, done with architectural practices locally and internationally, and the concentration of such practices in Aarhus supports that cooperation.

The Study in Denmark register lists one English-taught degree programme here, a Master's degree, in the fine arts subject area. The school also runs Bachelor's, Master's and PhD programmes and supplementary education for architects and similar professional groups.

For an international student, undergraduate applications go through optagelse.dk, while master's applications go directly to the institution. Students from outside the EU/EEA need a residence permit via SIRI. Study is free for EU/EEA and Swiss students, and others pay an institutional fee.