About
Studio Kathryn Larsen
Studio Kathryn Larsen is an architecture and research practice shaping new pathways for rural futures.
Rooted in place, culture, and material ecology, we design projects that strengthen local identity while rethinking how buildings, governance, and biobased innovation intersect.
The studio also functions as an apprenticeship environment, mentoring emerging researchers through the Place-Based Sustainable Building: Lolland–Falster program at DIS Study Abroad and periodically offering paid junior architect positions.
Our work spans spatial design, community-led development, and experimental material research. From transforming a 1908 community hall into a cultural laboratory, to pioneering biobased systems with seagrass and algae, the studio develops approaches that support resilience, collective agency, and long-term rural transformation.
We collaborate with municipalities, institutions, engineers, researchers, and local communities to build architecture that grows from the landscapes and people it serves.
About Kathryn Larsen
Kathryn Larsen (MAA, TU Delft) is an American-born, Copenhagen-based architect and researcher working at the intersection of rural development, adaptive reuse, and biobased material innovation. She is the founder of Studio Kathryn Larsen, an architecture and research practice advancing systems-led, place-based design.
Larsen’s work spans architectural projects, community-led processes, and material research, including the transformation of the 1908 Eskilstrup Kulturhus into a cultural and biobased development laboratory.
Her research on biobased materials and rural design has been presented internationally, with exhibitions at the Venice Biennale (2021), Architect@Work London (2020), and Dutch Design Week (2019), as well as a keynote at Design Indaba in 2020.
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