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Emil Seehusen is a Danish-born architect trained in the US and Europe at the Southern California Institute of Architecture(SCI- Arc) and the Royal Danish Academy of Arts. Alongside professional practice, Emil has extensive experience as an architectural educator, having taught and led bachelor's and master's degree architecture units at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen. He has also initiated several collaborations between students in Somaliland and the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. He is currently involved in a research initiative on affordable housing in East Africa in collaboration with SCI-Arc.
Emil has worked at Foster + Partners in London on several high-end hotels, retail, and office projects (2010-2013, UK Architect). Emil is the founder of the design office Device Agency, a Copenhagen-based practice that has designed houses, office spaces, and boutique interiors in London, Paris, and Copenhagen (2014-).
2021 SCI-Arc Channel - video dissemination of student-researcher collaboration between Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles and Abaarso Technical University in Somaliland, organised by Emil Seehusen.
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
The publication disseminates the work of third-year students during a month-long field study trip to Mozambique. The field study was co-organized by Emil Seehusen, who was also the head of the module, in addition to contributing a chapter to the book.
The publication disseminates the work of third-year students during a month-long field study trip to Mozambique. The field study was co-organized by Emil Seehusen, who was also the head of the module, in addition to contributing a chapter to the book.
2018 Travel grant to travel to Somaliland – Dreyers Foundation
2018 Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition, displaying a model built 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 of Maputo
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 work 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 - honourable 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's students at the Royal Academy
2018 Royal Academy Lab - Appointed task force 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 the 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's and bachelor's degrees.
2014 educator at the dept. 1 ‘by, bygning, landskab’ and dept. 6 ‘Rum og form’.