Anne Elisabeth Toft is Associate Professor of architecture and architectural representation at the Aarhus School of Architecture (aarch.dk) in Denmark from where she also holds a Ph.D. in Architectural Theory. Anne Elisabeth - and her colleages Anders Gammelgaard and Torben Nielsen - will be working with Gerard during his Visiting Professorship in Aarhus.
Anne Elisabeth studied architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture and Visual Culture at the Department of Art History, Copenhagen. Her Ph.D.-dissertation theorizes the relationship between architecture and architectural photography. She has participated in group and individual exhibitions on architecture and architectural photography in Denmark and abroad and she has lectured and taught at many international universities and schools of architecture
She has written interviews and essays for magazines and books about architecture, architectural education, architectural photography and the visual arts. Her current research project investigates architectural photography as an architectural strategy. She has been a member of the EAAE Council (European Association for Architectural Education) for many years and she is editor of the EAAE News Sheet (www.eaae.be). She lives and works in Aarhus and Copenhagen, Denmark.
Since 2008 she has been involved with rethinking the Bachelor Education at the Aarhus School of Architecture - a project with which Gerard will be involved during their collaboration.