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Please join us for this talk in conjunction with our exhibition Boliglaboratorium: A Danish Housing Lab, presented by Mark McInturff, FAIA.

This talk will explore the concept of alternative housing design concepts in the United States, and will address issues such as climate adaptation, shifting family patterns, urban density, and community resilience through design. 

Boliglaboratorium: A Danish Housing Lab showcases six groundbreaking projects by Danish architecture firms that explore ways in which housing can respond to some of the greatest challenges of our time. Housing across the world today is affected by climate change, resource scarcity, new family patterns, rise of loneliness, and shrinking rural communities. Big cities are struggling to keep up with the influx of newcomers.

The models presented in this exhibition are real-life housing projects across urban and rural Denmark that experiment with new blueprints to build for modern life. The Housing Lab was first exhibited in Copenhagen in 2023 as part of the UIA World Congress of Architects. A Pacific Northwest tour in the United States was presented by Scan Design Foundation, in partnership with the Danish Embassy in Washington DC, from November 2024 to May 2025. Scan Design Foundation’s mission is to support the cross-cultural exchange between Denmark and the U.S.

About the Speaker:

Mark McInturff, FAIA, McInturff Architects- Mark McInturff founded McInturff Architects in 1986. The five-person Bethesda based studio is dedicated to the making of modern, highly crafted residential, commercial, and small institutional projects. The size, intentionally kept small, allows for close interaction within the studio and with clients and builders.

While all the work can be characterized as modern, there is no single style. Instead, the aesthetic of each project is tailored to its specific program, location, and client.

The firm has received more than 400 design awards, and has been frequently published locally, nationally, and internationally. The fourth monograph, HomeWork: McInturff Architects, was published in 2023 by the Images Publishing Group.