Project I: Atelier Clancy-Moore

Architecture doesn’t happen in isolation, and we prioritise the social construction of each proposition as a key part of the learning experience. For this reason we ask all students to work in groups of 2 or 3. We know there will be differing interpretations and lines of enquiry and so the tuition will work to develop skills and insights into collaborative working. We will hold open, supportive and critical conversations about how we work, open spaces where nothing is off the table, and there are no taboos. We recongise the unique frustrations, joys and insecurities of architectural production and do not ignore them - part of our teaching is to allow students develop their own tools for navigating doubt.

NEW ORDER: In the abiding spirit of the Accademia we are interested in what constitutes a territory today. Any site has its interconnection with processes, places, and social structures in the world. We equally undertand the territory of the archtiect ‒ their histories, facinations and ethical imperitives. We site our studio in the intersection of these two territories.
We note that the role of the architect is one governed by contingency. While the edifices of our discipline portray certainty and authority architecture today is a rich negotiation - between regulation, economics, the social and emotional contexts as well as the brief and its performance. The best architecture today comes not from top down certainties, but from curiosities. As architecture remakes itself to address climate change and resource scarcity we need this skill more than ever. This ability to read the world with an open mind demands that we learn to harness doubt and incertitude - not as problems, but as the key sensibility that allows us to see with empathy and to act accordingly. The line drawn with doubt can be more powerful, more authoritative than the one drawn with false certainty - as it gathers more, and allows space for input by others. We are interested in this process, and in developing skills in our students which allow them to express themselves fully in the subject.
MAKING UP AND MAKING DO: we are setting our work in the Danish city of Copenhagen. Here we will research and publish works by the architect Hans Christian Hansen and will use great works of fiction as a way to explore the sity and as a mental site to develop ideas, understandings and depth of encounter. This year all the books will be based in Copenhagen. By inhabiting these books we will find clients, explore contexts, negotiate climates and the vastly differing rituals and social hierarchies of our world.  We have selected books that allow us to engage with and understand diverse times and ways of inhabiting the city along with its socio political histories. The evolution of both a universal and personal architectural language is rooted in these transformations and translations from one time or culture to another and from the individual author to the collective conscious. 
Climate change means historic forms of building, vernacular intelligences, gain new value in their translation from one context to another as the weather shifts and our geography is remade. For us this starts with an ability to read beyond our habitual understandings and develop a tectonic language that speaks of this new order
MAKING A BOOK: We will be researching and making a book, as a studio. This book will be the next in a series that we have authored with our students into lesser known architects and will be about the Copenhagen city architect Hans Christian Hansen (HCH). We will take 3 weeks of the semester to research, draw and photograph his buildings. We will travel to Copenhagen and study and survey his works for publication. The book will be published internationally by Lund Humphries in May 2026. Students will all be credited as chapter authors
INFRASTRUCTURES: In the spirt of HCH we are interested in the banal infrastructures of a city and its commonalities. Your programme will be found in this way of thinking.

• Quality education
• Gender equality
• Industry, innovation and infrastructure
• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action

In presence

Conversation

The entire semester is treated holistically as part of assessment

• Copenhagen, 02.10.25 - 05.10.25 (Optional)