Thursday, November 12, 2020

Artist of the day, November 12, 2020: Dorte Mandrup, a Danish architect (#1144)

 Dorte Mandrup-Poulsen (1961) is a Danish architect. Founder and Creative Director of the architectural practice Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter A/S that has approximately 60 employees. The practice is based in Copenhagen, Denmark and is behind several internationally acclaimed buildings.

Dorte Mandrup’s work is characterized by being conceptually strong as well as innovative in terms of form and material, but also by an analytical approach to architecture.

Dorte Mandrup is behind the Wadden Sea Centre at the Danish West Coast, the Icefjord Centre by the UNESCO trail in Ilulissat in Greenland, and most recently Danish clothing company Bestseller’s upcoming mixed use development in Brande, which has already received attention due to its plans of building a more than 200 metre tall tower, thereby becoming Denmark’s tallest building.

In 2017, Dorte Mandrup caused an international stir with her opinion piece ”I am not a female architect. I am an architect” in Dezeen, in which she discussed gender politics within the world of architecture.

She was also winner of the Berlin Art Prize 2019, architecture division.

Mandrup serves on the board of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and is a member of the Historic Buildings Council.

Dorte Mandrup graduated from the Aarhus School of Architecture in 1991. From 1991–92 she studied sculpture and ceramics at the G.S.C Art Department in the United States. She then went to work for Henning Larsen Architects for a few years before, in 1995, co-founding Fuglsang & Mandrup-Poulsen with Niels Fuglsang. This firm was eventually split in 1999 when Mandrup set up her current practice, Dorte Mandrup A/S. It was founded on 30 June 1999 and is based in Copenhagen.

In April 2019, Dorte Mandrup headed the jury of the 2019 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award.

On 1 November 2019, Mandrup won a competition arranged by The Whale AS for designing an attraction to be built on the Norwegian island of Andøya, 300 km north of the Arctic Circle. Her design resembles a whale but also presents a slope which visitors will be able to climb for a view over the sea, the mountains and the Northern Lights.

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Ms. Dorte Mandrup

2014 Ama'r Children's Culture House
Copenhagen, Denmark

Atrium Kannikegade Hotel & Retail
Denmark

Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center
Ukraine

Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center
Ukraine

Bordings Independent School
Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009

Conditions
Venice Biennale Exhibition

Herstedlund Community Centre
Denmark

Icefjord Centre
Venice

IKEA CPH Masterplan
Denmark 2019

IKEA Hubhult
Sweden, 2015

IKEA Hubhult
Sweden, 2015

Ilulissat Icefjord Centre
Greenland

Ilulissat Icefjord Centre
Greenland

La Brea Tar Pits
Los Angeles, Ca.

La Brea Tar Pits
Los Angeles, Ca.

Malmö Live
Sweden

Malmö Live
Sweden

Munkegaard School
Denmark

Råå Preschool
Sweden

Read-Nest
Denmark

Sailing Tower
Denmark

Sailing Tower
Denmark

The Mineral Water House
Denmark

The Opal
Denmark

The Wadden Sea Centre
Denmark

The Whale
Norway

The Whale
Norway

The Whale
Norway

Thy National Park Center
Denmark

Thy National Park Center
Denmark

Tower & Village
Denmark

Trilateral Wadden Sea World Heritage Partnership Center
Germany


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