2022
Women in Architecture
Exhibition 13. maj – 23. oktober 2022
DAC, BLOX Copenhagen
A part of the exhibition - Kvinder der tegner Danmark i dag / Women designing Denmark today - has interviews with prominent Danish architects and planners working in the industry now including Dorte Mandrup, Rosa Lund, Mette Tony, Lene Dammand Lund and Tina Saaby. There are subtitles in English and it is worth spending time listening to all the interviews as they each select an object that influenced their work and talk about women who inspired them and about their careers and their thoughts on the balance of numbers, men to women, at all levels from the design studio to partnerships and at board level.
Read more here
2021
TWIST/ARTE
Interview with Bianca Hauda about planning for liveability and sustainability.
"Twist" looks to Copenhagen, because the Danish capital has the ambitious goal of becoming the first climate-neutral city in the world by 2025. It is to be redesigned to be greener, more digital and lower in emissions. Bianca Hauda cycles through the bike-friendly city and meets people who work to make the city more livable and sustainable.
See the film here
Deadline, national TV
A conversation about liveability and the dilemmas it bring along.
The new life in harbor baths in the middle of the cities has exploded this summer. But perhaps the young people should not be blamed, and perhaps the trouble is just proof that the peace of the residential area cannot be imported into the big city.
Host: Niels Krause-Kjær Guests: Tina Saaby Madsen, city architect in Gladsaxe Jonas Bjørn Jensen, political spokesperson for the Social Democrats in Copenhagen's Citizens' Representation Mette Mechlenborg, senior researcher at the Department of Construction, Urban and Environment at Aalborg Univer
See more here
Pioneers then and now, RIBA
35 years ago, four women took to the stage at the RIBA to reflect on their careers in an event titled Pioneers: Women Architects and Their Work. Jane Drew, Pat Tindale, Elaine Denby and Rosemary Stjernstedt had all enjoyed success within architecture, but each had faced obstacles as women making their way in a male-dominated profession.
To mark International Women’s Day 2021, RIBA are releasing the archival recordings of the event.
In reflecting back on these women’s words, they spoke to some present-day women architects to explore how much has changed, what work there is still to do, and what we – as an Institute and a wider profession – are doing about it.
Read more here
2020
LICITATION
A conversation about Gladsaxe, the suburbs and about leadership in how to create better cities.
Read more here
BYLYD
Niels Bjørn from Bylyd and I, had a conversation i october about the role and value of cityarchitects in Denmark.
Listen here
2019
Københavnersnude #259
LoveCopenhagen is a cultural site that deals with the best n Copenhagen and its surroundings.
Every Thursday you get recommendation of a minimum of three events in the city, and every Sunday you get an interview with an Copenhagener. This week that interview was with me.
Read more here
Elevator Pitch, exhibition in Munich
Female architects and their way of doing architecture
The elevator pitch is the central part of a "profile" in the exhibition. This not only shows views of and on architects, but also the diversity of the career and the possibilities of the job description. What does the women care about? What do they stand for? What motivations, beliefs, ideals are behind their work?
With a "profile" are represented: Gabriela Barman Krämer / Tatiana Bilbao / Helga Blocksdorf / Nicola Borgmann / Sylvia Claus / Caroline Ebbing / Elisabeth Endress / Anne Femmer / Robert Franken / Judith Haase / Melanie Hammer / Heike Hanada / Elisabeth Hartung / Anna Heringer / Susanne Hofmann / Regine Keller / Verena Konrad / Leoni Manhardt / Katharina Matzig / Corinna Menn / Elisabeth Merk / Dionys Ottl / Tina Saaby / Amandus Sattler / Ina-Maria Schmidbauer / Misa Shibukawa / Franziska Singer / Florian Summa /Christiane Thalgott / Réka Visnyei / Caroline Willy
Read more here
You can find the Catalogue here
Self-selected homeless for one year, Børsen about leadership
An article about my decision to take my own year without a home and a normal job.
But as a nomad travelling around having conversations about city making and place making.
Read more here
Article in DIENA.LV, Riga Latvia
"Town planners tend to rationalize everything, but the city should be able to accommodate the irrational to a much greater extent because we are people who act intuitively and according to our emotions. Predictability the biggest difference between the 20th century and today. In modernist tradition of the last century we thought we could plan everything. This involved not only urban planning but also planning one's career and family life. We thought we could design the ideal scenario and fulfill it. Today we understand that there are no such ideal situations and especially not that are the same for all people."
Read more here
Metro In Copenhagen - from thought to rails
I join the Lorry Television to visit four of the new stations and talk about the change the metro creates for the city and for the neighbourhoods.
Look and listen here
Fastighets Nytt, Sweden
In dialoque with the statearchitect in Sweden Helena Bjarnegård: "No one can solve today's difficult climate crisis and other societal challenges on their own. Architecture (the built environment) is a key issue that the entire organization needs to work on"
Read more here
Bagklog på P1: Leif Sylvester Petersen
Discussing how it is not about 'ugly' and 'pretty' architecture, but how it works and what it does to us and it's surroundings. Listen from 1 hour and 20 minutes.
Listen here.
Go' morgen Danmark: Fremtidens bolig
To spotlight the opening of The Architecture Festival in Copenhagen Go' morgen Danmark is taking a look at the future of homes talking with Tina Saaby and Dan Stubbergaard.
Watch here. (You have to have TV2 PLAY to watch the clip)
Interview in danish magazine Arkitekten on the importance of architecture policy
Reflections on my period as cityarchitect in Copenhagen 2010-2019.
"So my call to all fellow architects and citymakers in general is to be more debating, politically committed and socially aware"
Read more here
Article in BYGGERI+ARKITEKTUR
In this edition of BYGGERI+ARKITEKTUR I reflect about Copenhagen, citymaking and the role of architects together with Mikkel Weber Sandahl. "The architect's role is to talk to all the different actors and gather that knowledge, and with it create a noticeable architecture and artistic dimension."
Read more here
Television TV2 Lorry
TV2 Lorry is looking at new sustainable architecture in Copenhagen. Take a look at 3.43 where Tina Saaby is talking about at how reusing materials brings history to new places.
Watch here.
Article in The Local (DK)
“The most important part in the Nordics is that we have a big understanding for human beings. It is not just about the buildings themselves; we place an emphasis on liveability, lifequality and community in developing a city,” says Saaby. For example, daylight is very important in the Nordics and catching the daylight goes into the planning process.”
Read the full article here.
National Television Marts
How do we build cities where people meet? Sustainable architecture is trending all over the world and danish architects are in front. Watch "Vi bygger det væk - Fremtidens fællesskaber" at 00.52.
Watch here.
Portrait Herning Gymnasium
Reflections on smaller and bigger cities, how do we experience our home city when we are living there and when we are leaving.
"Jeg tror, at vores byer – store som små – skal kunne rumme det ukendte og det hemmelige og have stor åbenhed for omverdenen og samtidig være gode til at skabe små fællesskaber, tryghed og menneskelig skala."
read here, in danish
2018
Reflections from the tower
Short film about the liveability and sustainability of Copenhagen. “Building liveability – Reflections from the Tower” is a short film produced by the Embassy in Buenos Aires. It was part of the exhibition "Partnerships for sustainable development: The Copenhagen case", which the embassy created together with the Municipality of Copenhagen, BIG and Smith Innovation for the Buenos Aires Biennial of Architecture 2017. The exhibition won first prize in the city category. The main setting of the film is the bridge tower on Knippelsbro in Copenhagen, from where Tina Saaby (City Architect of Copenhagen), David Zahle (BIG) and Mikkel Thomassen (Smith Innovation) provide their perspectives on livability in Copenhagen. The film also features an interview with Bjarke Ingels as well panoramic views of the harbour of Copenhagen.
See the short film here
VIDEOS
Copenhagen, a city for people, Strasbourg. See here
Private + Public, Urban threshold, RIBA, London. See here
Placemaking, 4x4 lectures, Sheffield. See here
MEDIA ARCHIVE
Nordic solutions to global Challenges. The contents of this booklet are based on the White Paper on Nordic Sustainable Cities developed by Nordregio. Read more here
Women in Architecture
Exhibition 13. maj – 23. oktober 2022
DAC, BLOX Copenhagen
A part of the exhibition - Kvinder der tegner Danmark i dag / Women designing Denmark today - has interviews with prominent Danish architects and planners working in the industry now including Dorte Mandrup, Rosa Lund, Mette Tony, Lene Dammand Lund and Tina Saaby. There are subtitles in English and it is worth spending time listening to all the interviews as they each select an object that influenced their work and talk about women who inspired them and about their careers and their thoughts on the balance of numbers, men to women, at all levels from the design studio to partnerships and at board level.
Read more here
2021
TWIST/ARTE
Interview with Bianca Hauda about planning for liveability and sustainability.
"Twist" looks to Copenhagen, because the Danish capital has the ambitious goal of becoming the first climate-neutral city in the world by 2025. It is to be redesigned to be greener, more digital and lower in emissions. Bianca Hauda cycles through the bike-friendly city and meets people who work to make the city more livable and sustainable.
See the film here
Deadline, national TV
A conversation about liveability and the dilemmas it bring along.
The new life in harbor baths in the middle of the cities has exploded this summer. But perhaps the young people should not be blamed, and perhaps the trouble is just proof that the peace of the residential area cannot be imported into the big city.
Host: Niels Krause-Kjær Guests: Tina Saaby Madsen, city architect in Gladsaxe Jonas Bjørn Jensen, political spokesperson for the Social Democrats in Copenhagen's Citizens' Representation Mette Mechlenborg, senior researcher at the Department of Construction, Urban and Environment at Aalborg Univer
See more here
Pioneers then and now, RIBA
35 years ago, four women took to the stage at the RIBA to reflect on their careers in an event titled Pioneers: Women Architects and Their Work. Jane Drew, Pat Tindale, Elaine Denby and Rosemary Stjernstedt had all enjoyed success within architecture, but each had faced obstacles as women making their way in a male-dominated profession.
To mark International Women’s Day 2021, RIBA are releasing the archival recordings of the event.
In reflecting back on these women’s words, they spoke to some present-day women architects to explore how much has changed, what work there is still to do, and what we – as an Institute and a wider profession – are doing about it.
Read more here
2020
LICITATION
A conversation about Gladsaxe, the suburbs and about leadership in how to create better cities.
Read more here
BYLYD
Niels Bjørn from Bylyd and I, had a conversation i october about the role and value of cityarchitects in Denmark.
Listen here
2019
Københavnersnude #259
LoveCopenhagen is a cultural site that deals with the best n Copenhagen and its surroundings.
Every Thursday you get recommendation of a minimum of three events in the city, and every Sunday you get an interview with an Copenhagener. This week that interview was with me.
Read more here
Elevator Pitch, exhibition in Munich
Female architects and their way of doing architecture
The elevator pitch is the central part of a "profile" in the exhibition. This not only shows views of and on architects, but also the diversity of the career and the possibilities of the job description. What does the women care about? What do they stand for? What motivations, beliefs, ideals are behind their work?
With a "profile" are represented: Gabriela Barman Krämer / Tatiana Bilbao / Helga Blocksdorf / Nicola Borgmann / Sylvia Claus / Caroline Ebbing / Elisabeth Endress / Anne Femmer / Robert Franken / Judith Haase / Melanie Hammer / Heike Hanada / Elisabeth Hartung / Anna Heringer / Susanne Hofmann / Regine Keller / Verena Konrad / Leoni Manhardt / Katharina Matzig / Corinna Menn / Elisabeth Merk / Dionys Ottl / Tina Saaby / Amandus Sattler / Ina-Maria Schmidbauer / Misa Shibukawa / Franziska Singer / Florian Summa /Christiane Thalgott / Réka Visnyei / Caroline Willy
Read more here
You can find the Catalogue here
Self-selected homeless for one year, Børsen about leadership
An article about my decision to take my own year without a home and a normal job.
But as a nomad travelling around having conversations about city making and place making.
Read more here
Article in DIENA.LV, Riga Latvia
"Town planners tend to rationalize everything, but the city should be able to accommodate the irrational to a much greater extent because we are people who act intuitively and according to our emotions. Predictability the biggest difference between the 20th century and today. In modernist tradition of the last century we thought we could plan everything. This involved not only urban planning but also planning one's career and family life. We thought we could design the ideal scenario and fulfill it. Today we understand that there are no such ideal situations and especially not that are the same for all people."
Read more here
Metro In Copenhagen - from thought to rails
I join the Lorry Television to visit four of the new stations and talk about the change the metro creates for the city and for the neighbourhoods.
Look and listen here
Fastighets Nytt, Sweden
In dialoque with the statearchitect in Sweden Helena Bjarnegård: "No one can solve today's difficult climate crisis and other societal challenges on their own. Architecture (the built environment) is a key issue that the entire organization needs to work on"
Read more here
Bagklog på P1: Leif Sylvester Petersen
Discussing how it is not about 'ugly' and 'pretty' architecture, but how it works and what it does to us and it's surroundings. Listen from 1 hour and 20 minutes.
Listen here.
Go' morgen Danmark: Fremtidens bolig
To spotlight the opening of The Architecture Festival in Copenhagen Go' morgen Danmark is taking a look at the future of homes talking with Tina Saaby and Dan Stubbergaard.
Watch here. (You have to have TV2 PLAY to watch the clip)
Interview in danish magazine Arkitekten on the importance of architecture policy
Reflections on my period as cityarchitect in Copenhagen 2010-2019.
"So my call to all fellow architects and citymakers in general is to be more debating, politically committed and socially aware"
Read more here
Article in BYGGERI+ARKITEKTUR
In this edition of BYGGERI+ARKITEKTUR I reflect about Copenhagen, citymaking and the role of architects together with Mikkel Weber Sandahl. "The architect's role is to talk to all the different actors and gather that knowledge, and with it create a noticeable architecture and artistic dimension."
Read more here
Television TV2 Lorry
TV2 Lorry is looking at new sustainable architecture in Copenhagen. Take a look at 3.43 where Tina Saaby is talking about at how reusing materials brings history to new places.
Watch here.
Article in The Local (DK)
“The most important part in the Nordics is that we have a big understanding for human beings. It is not just about the buildings themselves; we place an emphasis on liveability, lifequality and community in developing a city,” says Saaby. For example, daylight is very important in the Nordics and catching the daylight goes into the planning process.”
Read the full article here.
National Television Marts
How do we build cities where people meet? Sustainable architecture is trending all over the world and danish architects are in front. Watch "Vi bygger det væk - Fremtidens fællesskaber" at 00.52.
Watch here.
Portrait Herning Gymnasium
Reflections on smaller and bigger cities, how do we experience our home city when we are living there and when we are leaving.
"Jeg tror, at vores byer – store som små – skal kunne rumme det ukendte og det hemmelige og have stor åbenhed for omverdenen og samtidig være gode til at skabe små fællesskaber, tryghed og menneskelig skala."
read here, in danish
2018
Reflections from the tower
Short film about the liveability and sustainability of Copenhagen. “Building liveability – Reflections from the Tower” is a short film produced by the Embassy in Buenos Aires. It was part of the exhibition "Partnerships for sustainable development: The Copenhagen case", which the embassy created together with the Municipality of Copenhagen, BIG and Smith Innovation for the Buenos Aires Biennial of Architecture 2017. The exhibition won first prize in the city category. The main setting of the film is the bridge tower on Knippelsbro in Copenhagen, from where Tina Saaby (City Architect of Copenhagen), David Zahle (BIG) and Mikkel Thomassen (Smith Innovation) provide their perspectives on livability in Copenhagen. The film also features an interview with Bjarke Ingels as well panoramic views of the harbour of Copenhagen.
See the short film here
VIDEOS
Copenhagen, a city for people, Strasbourg. See here
Private + Public, Urban threshold, RIBA, London. See here
Placemaking, 4x4 lectures, Sheffield. See here
MEDIA ARCHIVE
Nordic solutions to global Challenges. The contents of this booklet are based on the White Paper on Nordic Sustainable Cities developed by Nordregio. Read more here