World Architecture Day
Celebrate World Architecture Day at DAC! This year, we’re celebrating with exciting activities and the opening of our major new exhibition, Cities for People. Join us for an eventful day for all ages, with free admission from 10.00–21.00.
Program
10:00–21:00: Street ball and a giant mosaic in chalk at Bryghuspladsen
10:00–18:00: Design Your Own Urban Creature
11:00–13:00: Special Guided Tour: Meet an Architect in So Danish!
12:00 & 15:00: Guided Gallery Tours for Kids in Danish
13:00–16:00 & 18:00–21:00: DJ at DAC Rooftop Café
12:30 & 13:30: Guided Gallery Tours of Cities for People in Danish
14:30: Guided Gallery Tour of Cities for People in English
17:00: Exhibition Opening of Cities for People. DAC is serving free beer, juice, and cider
18:00–19:00: AfterDAC talk (in Danish)
Family Workshop: Design Your Own Urban Creature
Stop by the Educatorium and create your very own Urban creature! Draw, cut, and sew using fabric, yarn, and other materials, and find inspiration for shapes and colors in the exhibition Cities for People.
Meet an Architect
Experience DAC’s permanent exhibition So Danish! from a new, personal perspective. In a series of short guided tours (about 20 minutes), members of the Danish Association of Architects will guide you through the exhibition, focusing on their personal favorites and perspectives on architecture, as well as sharing insights from their own work as architects.
Guided Gallery Tours for Kids: Architecture for All the Senses
Come explore DAC and discover architecture in a whole new way. We’ll use all our senses to investigate shapes, colors, materials, spaces, and sounds. The tour is designed for children ages 4–10 and their grown-ups, but everyone is welcome to join the fun. Kids’ tours start at 12.00 and 15.00.
Guided Gallery Tours of Cities for People
DAC’s exhibition hosts offer guided tours of the brand-new exhibition Cities for People. Tours in Danish at 12.30 and 13.30. Tour in English at 14.30.
Activities at Bryghuspladsen
Have you ever played cheese, played street ball – or drawn a giant mosaic in chalk? Come out and play as we transform Bryghuspladsen from a gray concrete square into a colorful playground filled with activities, creativity, and community.
DJ at DAC Rooftop Café
Enjoy a well-deserved break at DAC Café with laid-back DJ lounge tunes and views of both the city and the harbor from our rooftop terraces.
Exhibition Opening
We celebrate the opening of our new exhibition Cities for People from 17.00 – 21.00. Opening speeches by Stine Lea Jacobi, Director of Philanthropy at Realdania, Jan Gehl, Professor, Architect, and Urban Planner, Helle Søholt, Founding Partner and Chair of the Board at Gehl, and Kent Martinussen, CEO of DAC.
About World Architecture Day
World Architecture Day was established by the International Union of Architects (UIA) in the mid-1980s with a simple idea: architecture affects all of us, so there should be a day when architecture opens up to everyone. Today, World Architecture Day is celebrated in countries around the world, including Denmark.