Architecture and Design Lectures – Copenhagen
Copenhagen City as classroom
Copenhagen is a city shaped by architecture and design that places people, everyday life, and sustainability at its core.
CPH Inside Out uses the city as an open classroom, where streets, buildings, and public spaces become tools for learning, right where it is lived. Through guided walks and on-site teaching, architecture is experienced directly.
The focus is on human scale, urban qualities, and the design choices that define Copenhagen’s built environment. Each tour or teaching session is adapted to the age, level, and academic focus of the group. The aim is to strengthen spatial awareness and critical thinking through direct engagement with Copenhagen’s built environment and inspire to innovation for a healthier environment.
- Learn directly on site through guided walks and real life examples
- Discover Copenhagen as a frontrunner in sustainable architecture
- Experience how Copenhagen is rethinking materials, energy and urban life
- Understand how climate-conscious buildings and people-first public spaces shape urban life
- Leave inspired to rethink how healthier, more sustainable cities are designed
Practical info
Tours and lectures will be tailored to age, level and academic focus.
Guided tour
Duration: up to 2,5 hrs.
Max 20 persons (walk) – Max 12 persons (bike)
Price: DKK 2400/ € 320
Additional hours DKK 500/ €66
Lectures inside as a presentation or before start of a tour
Duration: up to 1,5 hrs.
Price: DKK 3.975/ € 530
Reading the City: 400 years of Architectural Style History
Copenhagen unfolds as a layered architectural narrative spanning four centuries and it’s always a pleasure to give a lecture or show the different styles the city has experienced.
From the Renaissance and Baroque, where decoration signalled power, faith, and royal ambition, to the refined elegance of Rococo and the measured rationality of Classicism, buildings reveal how ideals, taste, and authority were made visible in stone and ornament. The story continues through Historicism’s conscious use of the past, Brutalism’s social and material honesty, and the diversity of Contemporary Architecture, where form, function, and identity are constantly renegotiated.
Along the way, attention is drawn to façades, plans, materials, and urban spaces — but also to the lives behind them: who built, who ruled, who paid, and how architecture expressed social status, everyday life, and changing worldviews.
Copenhagen is not just a city to be seen, but a city I will love to help you read.
