Arkitektens Forlag

21/05/2026

When opened its doors, something shifted in Copenhagen. For the first time, the city had invited an international star architect onto Danish soil to shape one of its most important cultural institutions, and with ’s blue cube in Ørestad, a new chapter in Danish architectural culture began.

What followed was a transformation: major public commissions increasingly went to names from abroad, from OMA’s BLOX to Kengo Kuma’s water culture house on Papirøen. DR Concert Hall was the starting point.

Our new book marks the building’s twentieth anniversary by looking back at what it set in motion, and forward at what it has become. Today the blue cube stands not just as a landmark, but as a musical machine.

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Contributors: Jakob Levinsen, Andrew Mellor, Yasuhisa Toyota, Jean Nouvel, Niels Erik Lund, Kim Bohr, Kristoffer Lindhardt Weiss, Candela De Bortoli, Christina Åstrand, Hans Ulrik, Fabio Luisi, Mikkel Nymand, Carina Høedt, Anne Karine Prip, Nicolai Abrahamsen, Rikke Lender, Anne Moritz, Bo Kleiner, Tatjana Kandel, Oskar Jensen, Marie-Louise (Rie) Koch, Flemming Bo Nielsen, Charlotte Rowan, Miho Hazama, Peter Mark
Language: English
Pages: 304
Format: 21,5×28,5 cm, hardcover
Design: .alexismark
ISBN: 978-87-7407-319-2

Kindly supported by the Beckett Foundation

14/05/2026

April went by in the blink of an eye. With no less than seven new publications, it has been a busy, and wonderful, month. We celebrated on the road and at home, with events at the Aarhus School of Architecture, LKR Innovation House, DR Concert Hall, and our very own office.

Thank you to everyone who came out and supported our new books and authors. It means everything to us.

Our April publications:

1. Earthshine by , with drawings by Georges Descombes
2. DR Concert Hall / DR Koncerthuset
3. The Arctic Cities by Peter Hemmersam
4. Rebuilding is Not a Metaphor, edited by and
5. How to Build an Apple Pie by .corlin1 .arch
6. More Than a House – An Experiment in Transformation by Joseph G. Allen, Mikkel Bahr, Ambra Guglietti, Mads Bjørn Hansen, Marie-Louise Høstbo, Karsten Ifversen, Lars Kann-Rasmussen, Heidi Merrild, Tina Mayn, Kasper Mose, Siobhan Rockcastle, Troels Thorbjørnson, Mette Tony, Birthe Urup
7. Archive of Contextualism by Katrine Lotz, Anne Mette Frandsen, Morten Meldgaard, Martin Marker, Rasmus Strange Thue Tobiasen, Henrik Oxvig, Knud Aarup Kappel, Alex Hummel Lee, Johan Mottelson, Sofie Højgaard and Jan Støvring

Now we look ahead to May and June, with new books and translations by Jakob Kolding, COBE, Tom Nielsen, and many more.

08/05/2026

First glimpses into our new book: DR Concert Hall

This is the first major book on DR Concert Hall — one of Denmark’s most distinctive cultural buildings and an international icon of contemporary architecture by

Since it opened in January 2009, the Concert Hall has established itself as one of the most important cultural institutions of the 21st century. Now, almost 20 years on, this publication takes a close look at the musical and cultural machine it is. Through essays, interviews, photography, drawings, model studies, and unique archival material, readers are invited into the artistic and technical engine room of the building — from the earliest ideas and the competition to design the hall, to its remarkable acoustics, complex stage technologies, and the daily operations of a living cultural institution.

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Contributors: Jakob Levinsen, Andrew Mellor, Yasuhisa Toyota, Jean Nouvel, Niels Erik Lund, Kim Bohr, Kristoffer Lindhardt Weiss, Candela De Bortoli, Christina Åstrand, Hans Ulrik, Fabio Luisi, Mikkel Nymand, Carina Høedt, Anne Karine Prip, Nicolai Abrahamsen, Rikke Lender, Anne Moritz, Bo Kleiner, Tatjana Kandel, Oskar Jensen, Marie-Louise (Rie) Koch, Flemming Bo Nielsen, Charlotte Rowan, Miho Hazama, Peter Mark
Language: English
Pages: 304
Format: 21,5×28,5 cm, hardcover
Design: .alexismark
ISBN: 978-87-7407-319-2

Kindly supported by the Beckett Foundation

07/05/2026

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29/04/2026

Both the Danish and English versions of The Arctic Cities by Peter Hemmersam are now available.

Where are Arctic cities located? Who lives there – and who planned them?

The Arctic Cities explores the spatial, political, and cultural conditions shaping urban life in the North. In 78 pages, the book traces the history and design of Arctic settlements, addressing colonialism, Indigenous perspectives, resource extraction, and welfare planning – and asks how globalisation and geopolitics challenge the future of small northern communities.

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Author: Peter Hemmersam
Language: DA/EN
Pages: 78
Design:
ISBN: 978-87-7407-805-0

23/04/2026

Today we celebrate the launch of Earthshine – An Essay on Watershed Imagining by

The drawings in this book are by Swiss landscape architect Georges Descombes, who in 2001 restored the Aire River in Geneva - the river Stefan wanders and writes about in this essay.

We celebrate the book with a keynote lecture by Georges Descombes, followed by a conversation between Descombes and Boris.

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Author:
Drawings: Georges Descombes
Language: English
Pages: 223
Format: 13,2x18 cm – softcover
Design: .artur
Lauch: April 23, 2026
ISBN: 978-87-7407-587-5

22/04/2026

The climate crisis is also a crisis of the imagination.

Tomorrow you can hear how combats the crisis of imagination, as we launch his new book: Earthshine – An Essay on Watershed Imagining at

The book takes the reader on an atmospheric journey along the Aire River outside Geneva – retracing the iconic river transformation project by Georges Descombes and Superpositions, and asking how we might reimagine rivers as life terrains and watersheds as common ground.

We launch the book with a keynote lecture by Georges Descombes, followed by a conversation between him and Stefan, at – we hope to see you there.

Can’t make it? Pre-order the book on our website.

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Author:
Drawings: Georges Descombes
Language: English
Pages: 223
Format: 13,2x18 cm – softcover
Design: .artur
Lauch: April 23, 2026
ISBN: 978-87-7407-587-5

15/04/2026

What does it mean to rebuild – and who gets to decide how it’s done?

Rebuilding is Not a Metaphor – Voices Reshaping the Built Environment Around the World brings together 23 contributors from across disciplines and geographies to examine what is actually at stake when cities and communities are reshaped. The book is edited by and Hau, who the book insists on the political weight of built space.

Friday 15:30 - 17:00 we launch the book at – join us for a panel debate and drinks.

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Authors: Ingeborg Hau, Bhawna Jaimini, Natalie Mossin, Adam Linde Nielsen, Asbjørn Lund, Søren Nielsen, Alessandra Gola, Abdalrahman Kittana, Yasmeen Lari, Anna Mette Exner, Ramatu Aliyu, Rizvi Hassan, Ruchi Varma, Maria Cynthia Y. Funk, Anna Aslaug Lund, Khwaja Fatmi, Corrin Chan, Hassan Chaachouh, Maria Fernanda Rivera Flores, Kainat Azadzoi, Đoan Thanh Hà, Marwa Al-Sabouni, Leena Shibeika
Language: English
Pages: 224
Format: 17×24 cm, softcover
Publication date: April 2026
Designer:
ISBN: 978-87-7407-764-0

23/03/2026

We asked our graphic designer Iben how she would highlight Making Matter What Too Often Does Not Matter – and this is her take.

18 scans of a book built from no less than six different paper types and a bespoke typeface, ‘Palmastry’ by Some papers are see-through, letting the book grid show through – the structure of the thing laid bare.

Material Protagonists of a Site-Derived Architecture

Author: & Adam Dickinson
Pages: 212
Format: 16,8x21 cm, softsover
Design:
Editor:
Editorial consultant:
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First published by:

20/03/2026