Aarhus University featured in the Canon of Danish Art and Culture

When the Ministry of Culture published its Canon of Danish Art and Culture in 2007, Aarhus University’s buildings and the University Park in Aarhus were listed among the 12 most important architectural icons in Denmark. The following extract is from the description of the university:

Erected in the 1930s, Aarhus University hints at brighter times for Aarhus and Denmark. The architecture is modern, and immediately anti-monumental, as an organic interpretation of the open campus in the centre of the city. It also provides distinctive and solid evidence of how a major structure in an urban context can develop with beauty and with soul over a period of more than 70 years.

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The architecture at Aarhus University

Sound and picture: See examples of the architecture at Aarhus University’s different locations

Architecture Stories

The Aarhus University Press has published the book Arkitekturfortællinger ( Architecture Stories ), which tells stories about the university’s architecture in words and pictures. You can purchase the book at:

Information Centre
Aarhus University
Fredrik Nielsens Vej 5, building 1445
8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
Tel. +45 8942 1025

ART AND DECORATION

Aarhus University has a long tradition for collaborating with the most distinctive contemporary artists. The university has one of the largest art collections in the city, and the numerous paintings featured on its yellow brick walls include works by Egill Jacobsen and Jens Birkemose. In 2001, Per Kirkeby completed the imposing ceiling painting in the Lakeside Lecture Theatres, but Preben Hornung’s mural from 1963, hanging in the Hornung Room ( Hornungstuen ) in the Student House, invokes attention in this context.

Most recently, the New Carlsberg Foundation and Aarhus University chose Erik A. Frandsen to carry out a major ornamentation task, to be completed during the course of 2009. The backdrop for this decoration is a refurbished building that is an extension of the Student House on the corner of the Aarhus streets Langelandsgade and Fredrik Nielsens Vej.

Per Kirkeby’s decoration of the Lakeside Lecture Theatres

The university offers a lecture about Per Kirkeby’s decoration in the Lakeside Lecture Theatres