Emil Seehusen is a Danish architect with a degree in architecture from Southern California Institute of Architecture (Master of Science) and the Royal Danish Academy of Arts, School of Architecture(Master of Arts). He is a member of the Danish Association of Architects and the British Architectural Association Board and holds a Diploma of Higher Education(Dip. Ed.).
Seehusen’s professional experience includes having worked as Foster + Partners in London(2010-2013), architect part 3, as well as having taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts, teaching assistant professor(2013-2019), and co-head of the master program; Architecture, Space and Time (2017-2018).
Seehusen has an interest in international pedagogical projects. He has experience conducting digital, intercontinental workshops between students from the Southern California Institute of Architecture and universities in Africa and Europe (Itinerant Platform 2020, 2021). In addition, Seehusen has taught architecture in Somaliland (2018,2020), lectured in Djibouti(2019), and conducted month-long field investigations for Royal Academy students on the informal city surrounding Maputo in Mozambique(2016, 2018), as well as being a guest critic at the Architectural Association in London.
Additionally, Seehusen has undertaken built projects in France, Denmark, and the United Kingdom through his professional praxis; device.agency
2020 Research fellowship at Southern California Institute of Architecture
2019 William Demand foundation – research grant
2019 Knud Hoejgaard foundation – research grant
2019 Augustinus foundation – research grant
2019 Exhibition at Southern California Institute of Architecture
2019 Southern California Institute of Architecture – scholarship
2019 C L David foundation – travel grant
2019 Publication of students work
2018 Travel grant to travel to Somaliland – Dreyers Foundation
2018 Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition, displaying a model build with students
2018 Travel grant to travel to Somaliland – Dreyers Foundation
2017 Exhibition of master program students works at the Royal Danish Academy
2017 Exhibition of master program students works at the Royal Danish Academy
2017 Exhibition at the Royal Danish Academy, bachelor program students third-year projects
2016 Publication - studies on the informal city
2016 Exhibition ‘7 Totems’ - Solo exhibition in a pop-up gallery in Copenhagen
2016 Danish Art Foundation – grant to make an exhibition on the informal city in Mozambique
2016 Exhibition at the Royal Danish Academy, bachelor program students works during a week-long workshop
2015 Exhibition at the Royal Danish Academy - on the informal city in Mozambique
2017 Exhibition of master program students works at the Royal Danish Academy
2013 Icopal reward - honorable mention
2013 Danish Association of Architects, interviewed
2011 Drawings published in the architecture magazine CONDITIONS
2011 Solo exhibition at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts
2009 Competition award ‘Sustainable living’. Second place.
2008 full scholarship at the Cooper Union
2008 Artist residency - BIKUBEN Residency in New York
ACADEMIA
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2021 Coordinator of an 8-week intercontinental research collaboration with student-researchers from SCI-Arc, Copenhagen University, Abaarso Tech University Somaliland, Royal Danish Academy
2020 Coordinator of a 2-week workshop between students at SCI-Arc and Abaarso Tech University Somaliland
2020 workshop in Somaliland, one week, for students at Abaarso Tech University
2018/19 3rd year bachelor program responsible ‘Complexity in practice’
2018 Thesis advisor for five master students the Royal Academy
2018 Royal Academy Lab - Appointed taskforce member for new digital fabrication lab
2018 Professor selection committee – Appointed taskforce
2018 one-month field study trip with students to Mozambique
2017/18 co-head of Master program ‘Architecture, Space, and Time’
2016/17 Teaching at master program - Master program_ Architecture, Space, and Time
2016 one-month field study trip with students to Mozambique
2015/16 teaching and program responsible - Bachelor program _ Complexity in practice
Overall responsible for teaching and planning program content at 3rd year bachelor program and bachelor degree.
2014 educator at the dept. 1 ‘by, bygning, landskab’ and dept. 6 ‘Rum og form’.