Five Australian exchange students reflect on their learnings of the multidisciplinary working method at PLH Arkitekter.

This year, PLH Arkitekter has been hosting the Danish-Australian exchange programme ‘MADE by the Opera House’. In six weeks, the five Australian students of architecture, engineering and design have formed a multidisciplinary team to collaborate on an interdisciplinary hypothetical project where they are asked to develop a new interpretation of the Aller Media Building in Copenhagen in a future context - 2030 and 2050. Today, Thursday the 20th of February, the students present their final project at a reception hosted by PLH Arkitekter.

Hear our Australian exchange students reflect on their learnings of the multidisciplinary working method in the video below.

MADE by the Opera House

MADE (Multidisciplinary Australian Danish Exchange) by the Opera House is an extra-curricular programme offered to Australian and Danish students of architecture, engineering and design. The exchange programme builds on the connection, which arose between Denmark and Australia when Jørn Utzon created ‘the Sydney Opera House’. MADE by the Opera House is about continuing the cross-disciplinary method, which formed the basis for the Opera House in Sydney.

MADE is developed and supported by the following partners and sponsors: Sydney Opera House Trust, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, The Bikuben Foundation, The Henrik Frode Obel Foundation, The Dreyer Foundation, Arup, Steensen Varming, the NSW Architects Registration Board and AMP capital.

The programme was established at the Sydney Opera House’s 40th Anniversary in 2013 and will lead up to the 50th Anniversary in 2023. During this period, 100 students in total will have taken the programme and be part of a MADE alumni network.

Read more about the programme here