Head of Institute: Jonna Majgaard Krarup
Secretary: Trine Lau Bæk

 The institute's research and education focus on practices with emphasis on architectural relationships between spatial form and functionality, and on planning methods and strategies. The institute's goal is to develop, describe and communicate new knowledge about forms of spatial organization and academic methods. The institute's research is holistic and ranges in scale from landscape and city to space and detail. The focus of the research is the planning of urban development, transformation and regional interaction, changes in the cities' landscape as well as the planning of city spaces and settlements. Based on specific cases, propositions and cross-disciplinary collaborations, new spatial types, methods and ideas are developed and later generalised to form new concepts. The changes in preconditions for planning, resulting from technological development, globalisation, changes in population structure and life patterns, and the opening up of planning processes are the background of the research.

The institute's main field is landscape planning, urban planning and building planning.

The research is linked to the institute's subjects and centres which represent and develop subtopics within architectural planning with significance for city development, settlement and living conditions- and contribute academically to the social debate.

Landscape Planning covers a field that ranges from the renovation of historic sites to the development of natural parks, theme parks, squares and streets, infrastructural facilities, afforestation, and new settlements.

City planning is the field of research where regions and cities' structure, dynamics and planning is understood as a way to formulate action instructions that may intervene in and guide development in certain directions.

Building Planning involves research in the subjects of residential construction, institution construction and settlement architecture. The research covers a field that ranges from settlement-building and planning in the urban and landscape context to the design of public spaces and housing.