Henrik Valeur



academic experience


2011 – Chandigarh College of Architecture - The Modernist City in the Age of Globalization
Visiting faculty at a 3 months joint studio with the College of Built Environments, University of Washington, USA.

2010 – Chandigarh College of Architecture - Chandigarh-a green and open city!
Guest prof. at a two months workshop on proposals for the 2030 Master plan of Chandigarh. Organized by Henrik Valeur in collaboration with Chandigarh College of Architecture faculty.

2010 – Chandigarh College of Architecture - Does the Global Meet the Local in Chandigarh?
Guest prof. at a five days workshop about the possible interaction between local and global communities, economies and environments. Organized by Henrik Valeur in collaboration with Chandigarh College of Architecture faculty.
We have to pay attention to the urban developments taking place on the fringes of existing cities. Outside the planned city of Chandigarh a new kind of city is rapidly developing. The Rajiv Gandhi Technology Park is located next to existing villages and informal settlements. This juxtaposition of two separate “worlds”, a local and a global, can be observed all over the world today. And it is, in many ways, here, in the interface between the local and the global, our common future is being decided. If we don’t know and understand each other how can we be expected to take care of and feel responsible for each other?
Report [5.3MB] pdf


Henrik Valeur issues a diploma to a student at Chandigarh College of Architecture, 2010

2010 – Lund University - Faculty of Engineering (LTH), SUDes - Urban Green, Urban Form
Workshop leader and critic at a two days workshop. Organized by Ax:son Johnson Institute for Sustainable Urban Design.
Searching for a design understanding which combines and overlays urban green and urban form seeing them not as separate components of the urban fabric, but as forming a three dimensional urban system.


Henrik Valeur plants a flower in a street of Lund, 2010

2009 – Lund University - Faculty of Engineering (LTH) - City·Science Park·University
Guest lecturer and tutor at a one week workshop on the integration of the city, the science park and the university. Organized by Henrik Valeur and Fredrik Fritzson.
How can a pattern of disintegrated and mono-functional urban zones be transformed into a dynamic and sustainable urban environment?


2009 - Technische Universität, ADIP
Nominated for a two years guest professorship and the position as head of the Architecture Design Innovation Program at Technische Universität in Berlin.

2008 and 2009 – Lund University - Faculty of Engineering (LTH) - Sustainable Urban Dynamics
Guest critic at a master course and co-organizer of a study trip to Shanghai.

2008 - Architectural Association School of Architecture, AA Shanghai Visiting Students Summer School - Computational Urbanism
Guest lecturer at a nine days Summer School in Shanghai. Organized by Tom Verebes, Henrik Valeur, Giel Groothuis et. al.
The workshop will develop design tools and research concepts able to confront and engage the phenomenon of rapid urban growth in the context of Shanghai, which is already radically challenging architectural design, urban theory, and professional practice.
Flyer [628K] jpg

2008 - Bauhaus Dessau Bauhaus Kolleg IX - Border Cities
Guest critic at the final presentation of post-graduate studies on border cities in the Baltic Sea Region.

2007 - Tongji University, College of Architecture and Urban Planning - The Fingerplan and Magic Mountains
Guest organizer (with prof. Pan Haixiao) of lectures by Peder Baltzar Nielsen and Dan Stubergaard.

2007 - Tongji University, College of Architecture and Urban Planning - Sustainable Urban Welfare
Guest prof. at a ten days workshop for undergraduate and postgraduate students at College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Organized by prof. Pan Haixiao and Henrik Valeur.
The aim is to create proposals for sustainable urban welfare in Shanghai, based on Danish principles of participatory, innovative and holistic design and planning.
Shanghai Daily 22.08.2007 [1MB] jpg

2006 – Aarhus School of Architecture and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture - China-Past and Future
Guest organizer (with DAC | Danish Architecture Centre) of lecture series by four Chinese professors.

2006 – Malmö University - School of Arts and Communication (K3) - Seven Scenarios
Guest tutor at a one day workshop (role play) for the course ”Interaction Design”. Organized by Henrik Valeur and Fredrik Fritzson.

2005 – Lund University - Faculty of Engineering (LTH) - The Open Community
Guest tutor at a two days workshop (role play) for Atelje X. Organized by Henrik Valeur and Fredrik Fritzson.
Participants are divided into teams. The task of each team is to transform Lindängen into an open community by increasing the total programs and activities of Lindängen by 100%. The teams represent groups of citizens and each participant plays a dual role as both an architect and a citizen with a specific background and set of desires. Real life investors and municipal planners participate in the closing critique.
Program [416K] pdf

2004 – Lund University - Faculty of Engineering (LTH) - The Gated Community
Guest tutor at a two days workshop (role play) on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the School of Architecture at Lund University. Organized by Henrik Valeur and Fredrik Fritzson.
Participants are divided into teams of 20 participants each. The task of each team is to develop a model for a gated community. This is done in the format of a role-play which simulates the complexity and the dynamics of a controversial planning project.
Program [2.6MB] pdf and Arkitekten 30.09.2004 [92K] pdf

2003 – Swedish Agricultural University - Department of Landscape Planning - Harbor bath in Västra Hamnen
Guest tutor at a five days workshop for the course "Design as Action". Organized by Henrik Valeur and Fredrik Fritzson.
Open planning processes which actively involve users with different ideas and interests can generate more composite and experientially rich environments. User participation can however also be extended to include the actual realization process itself. This process does not necessarily have any form of conclusion. Through active use the users can act to change these environments over time.
Program [28K] pdf

2003 – Supertanker - Copenhagen Harbor
Guest critic at a workshop for university students.

2003 – Aarhus School of Architecture - Urban Strategies
Guest critic

2002 – Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture - OMA/MVRDV
Organizer of lecture series at Department 1. Lectures by Jonas Sangberg, Dan Stubbergaard, Kristina Adsersen, Bjarke Ingels, Søren Chr. Madsen and Henrik Valeur.

2001-2002 – Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture
Teaching assistant at Department 1. Study program for graduate students and study group on Post-Metropolis.

1999-2000 – Aarhus School of Architecture
Teaching assistant at Department V. Study groups on New Urban Agendas and Contemporary Realities.

1999 – Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture
Guest organizer of lectures by Hrvoje Njiric and Christophe Cornubert.