Practice / Since 2009

A studio built
around questions.

Sixty-three architects, designers and researchers working across Copenhagen, Oslo and London.

ATELIER NORTH architects working around a site model
Position

Architecture begins by understanding what is already there.

We work from the specific outward: climate before envelope, ground before plan, use before image. This does not produce one style. It produces buildings accountable to their place.

Leadership

Three partners.
One shared practice.

LN

Liv Nørgaard

Founding Partner / Architecture and material culture.

EM

Erik Madsen

Partner / Urban systems and civic architecture.

SA

Signe Aalto

Partner / Transformation and environmental design.

Culture

Critique without
territory.

Projects move through shared reviews, material workshops and open model tables. Ideas are tested on their consequences, not protected by hierarchy.

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ATELIER NORTH civic architecture