Aarhus, Denmark’s second largest town will be the European Capital of Culture in 2017 for a good reason: for decades “the world’s smallest big city” has hosted one of the largest cultural events in Scandinavia, the festival week at the end of each summer. Aarhus attracts a growing population with its combination of urbanity, proximity to nature and educational institutions, which are amongst the country’s fi nest, including an architectural school that has produced many of the talents nowadays, promoting Danish architecture worldwide.
6 essays on the city’s history and development
120 contemporary buildings and architectural highlights, starting from the early twentieth century
Major projects in the planning
Grouping by location, including maps
Aarhus : Architectural Guide
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Author Description
Author Ulf Meyer is an architectural author in Berlin. He has written twelve books on architecture, amongst them four architectural guide books. He has a good grasp of Architecture in Asia, America, and Europe. He has published several articles on architecture in Scandinavia.
Initiator and author Heiko Weissbach is an architect from Berlin who has lived in Denmark half of his life and graduated from the Aarhus School of Architecture in 1995. He is a frequent traveller with a passion for the promotion of architecture.