Welfare state architecture; Scandinavian colonial history; modern urban developments; public housing and institutions; transformation and restoration; visual and material culture; gender studies and queer theory; post- and decolonial studies; Nordic and Arctic Studies
Frederik Braüner is a PhD student in architecture with a designated emphasis in European studies. His research focuses on the history and theory of modern welfare state architecture in the Nordics and the Arctic. In his ongoing PhD research, he is investigating the architecture of welfare colonialism in the Arctic, looking into the social, cultural, and economic factors that influenced the immense waves of urban development and modernization that took place in the postwar decades. In his previous research, he has investigated democratic decision-making policies in contemporary Danish housing developments, gender relations in modernist Scandinavian welfare state housing projects, and postcolonial relations between the Scandinavian countries and the former Scandinavian North-Atlantic colonies.
Frederik holds a BA in art history from Copenhagen University and a MA in architecture from the Royal Danish Academy. His thesis project, "An Intersectional Architecture," won the Danish Commonwealth Thesis Award in 2021. As a licensed architect in Denmark, he has worked in architectural practice, building restoration, and as an assistant editor for the Danish architecture journal Arkitekten.
ARCH 230, Advanced Architectural Theory and Criticism (spring, 2024) – TA, UC Berkeley
ARCH 130, Introduction to Architectural Design Theory and Criticism (fall, 2023) – TA, UC Berkeley
ARCH 170B, Architectural History Survey 2: 1500 to the Present (spring, 2023) – TA/GSI, UC Berkeley
ARCH 270, A History of Modern Architecture (fall, 2022) – TA/GSI, UC Berkeley
En:En, 4th semester studio (fall, 2016) – instructor, The Royal Danish Academy
En:En, 2nd semester studio (spring, 2016) – instructor, The Royal Danish Academy
En:En, 1st semester studio (fall, 2015) – instructor, The Royal Danish Academy
2024 GIAS Simpson ABD Graduate Students Research Fellowship
2023 Stephen Lenci Award 2023 Scott Opler Graduate Scholar Fellowship
2023 The Constructed Environment Emerging Scholar Award
2022 ISS Pre-Dissertation Fieldwork Fellowship 2022 Helmut Kohl Award in German and European Studies
2022 Augustinus Fonden, Scholarship 2021 Danish Commonwealth Thesis Award, 1st prize in Denmark
2021 Arcus Futures Award, UC Berkeley
Selected Publications
“Et Helligt Sted” in Arkitekten, no. 5 vol. 126 (April 2024), 25-28.
“Om Materie og Mennesker” in Arkitekten, no. 7 vol. 125 (September 2023), 43-46.
“Potentialer i Rå Beton” in Arkitekten, no. 10 vol. 124 (December 2022), 23-28.
“An Intersectional Architecture” in Architecture and Culture, vol. 10, no. 01 (Apr. 2022), 1-3.
“Gordisk Byknude” in Arkitekten: Biennale, vol. 123, no. 09 (Nov. 2021), 11-12.
“Det Andet-Verdslige og Det Underjordiske” in Arkitekten, vol. 123, no. 05 (Jun. 2021), 82-90.
“Feministiske Perspektiver på København” in Landskab (Mar. 2021), 60-67.
“Kunsttransplantation” in Arkitekten, vol. 122, 07 (Sept. 2020), 6-9.
“Gender in Urban Space” in KÅRK: GENDER (Mar. 2020), 102-111.
“Creating Public Spaces” in Here: Finder Sted/Taking Place, edited by Anne Romme, Camilla Hornemann, and Anne Pind, 142. Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy (2017).
