Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter was founded in 1,999 by Dorte Mandrup. Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter engages in a wide variety of projects: cultural institutions, buildings for children and youth, sports facilities, schools, housing, master plans and office buildings, as well as renovation and alteration of Federally Listed historical buildings. The visionary methods of Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter are based on a thorough analysis of every parameter involved in the brief.
On this foundation, new materials, constructions and variations of space are investigated. The office seeks to combine the tactile and poetic experience of space with conceptual clarity and accuracy, in both large-scale schemes and in detail.
Dorte Mandrup (born 28 July 1961) graduated from the Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark, in 1991. Eight years later, she founded her Copenhagen-based studio, where she continues to be Creative Director. Her design philosophy and artistic yet systematic mindset permeate the entire office as she is the design lead responsible for all projects.
Studies in both sculpture and ceramics, and medicine have influenced Dorte Mandrup’s approach to architecture, which has always been ‘hands-on’. Shape and form constitute the company ethos - to create spaces that are aesthetically pleasing, contextually relevant, and invite people to engage.
As a humanist with a distinct nonconformist outlook, Dorte Mandrup is well known for her commitment to the development of the architectural practice and her frequent participation in public debates. Receiving national and international acclaim for her work, in 2018, Dorte headlined at the curated international exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia.
Dorte is member of the Architecture Section in Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Vice Chairman of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, former member of the Historic Buildings Council in Denmark, Chair of the prestigious Mies van der Rohe Award 2019, Adjunct Professor at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and holds frequent visiting professorships abroad, in 2018 at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning and from 2021 at Mendrisio Accademia de Architettura, Switzerland.
Dorte Mandrup has been awarded numerous national and international awards. Among those: Bauwelt Prize, AR Award for Emerging Architecture, and the prestigious C.F. Hansen medal.
