Morten Schmidt
MORTEN SCHMIDT
About Speaker
Morten Schmidt is partner and co-founder of schmidt hammer lassen architects. His particular remit is the practice’s international commissions, especially in the UK and North America, China, Australia, and New Zealand. He is a project partner on The New Central Library in Christchurch, Victoria State Library in Melbourne, Shanghai East Library, Halifax Central Library in Canada, City of Westminster College in London, and University of Aberdeen New Library.
Earlier works include the Katuaq Culture Centre in Nuuk, Greenland and Halmstad Library, and Växjö City Library in Sweden. In the domestic arena, Morten Schmidt has specifically been responsible for the design development of a raft of projects that include the extension to the Royal Library in Copenhagen and the Aarhus Art Museum ARoS, the largest art museum in Northern Europe. He is the joint recipient of a considerable number of Danish and international architectural awards for completed projects.
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Kent, England
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Kingston Polytechnic
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Morten Schmidt is partner and co-founder of schmidt hammer lassen architects. His particular remit is the practice’s international commissions, especially in the UK and North America, China, Australia, and New Zealand. He is a project partner on The New Central Library in Christchurch, Victoria State Library in Melbourne, Shanghai East Library, Halifax Central Library in Canada, City of Westminster College in London, and University of Aberdeen New Library.
Earlier works include the Katuaq Culture Centre in Nuuk, Greenland and Halmstad Library, and Växjö City Library in Sweden. In the domestic arena, Morten Schmidt has specifically been responsible for the design development of a raft of projects that include the extension to the Royal Library in Copenhagen and the Aarhus Art Museum ARoS, the largest art museum in Northern Europe. He is the joint recipient of a considerable number of Danish and international architectural awards for completed projects.
Event text
One year after Architects, not Architecture held their first event in Copenhagen, this uncommon event format will be back in Denmark at Queen’s Hall, Royal Library, on 10th October. Architects, not Architecture or “AnA” – as the name suggests – provides a glimpse into the intellectual biography of great personalities of architecture. The event series is not built around the architects’ projects, but around them as individuals, their professional backgrounds and formative individual experiences that shaped the projects we all know.
On 10th October, two well-known Danish architects and one special guest are going to talk about their personal experiences and important creative periods in their lives and, as always at “AnA“, not a word may be lost about their projects:
- Dan Stubbergaard, founder of COBE, Copenhagen, www.cobe.dk
- Sheila O’Donnell, founder of O’Donnell+Tuomey, Dublin, www.odonnell-tuomey.ie
- Morten Schmidt, co-founder of Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, Aarhus, www.shl.dk
The event will be held in English.
The Irish architect Sheila O’Donnell’s work has continued to develop the spirit of architectural, social and cultural investigation which characterized her exploratory activities in the early 1980s. She was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 2015, given for a lifetime’s work and in the same year received the Brunner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, given for significant contribution to architecture as an art. Morten Schmidt’s early education in a Waldorf school, which emphasizes the role of imagination in learning, is a foundation for the spirituality, creativity and artistic freedom that permeate his work. His expertise includes creating and communicating compelling design visions, advocating for design excellence, and building for enduring quality. Dan Stubbergaard founded COBE in 2006 in Nordhavn, Copenhagen, where architecture is not a matter of a certain style or form, but more importantly its adaptability to the local context, its social life and its users. COBE has created numerous award-winning projects and currently employs approximately 130 people.
This event is kindly supported by our partners BoConcept, Schüco, JUNG and FSB.
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