Anders Brix is a professor in the Institute of Design and Communication at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture.

When Anders Brix studies whether we might benefit from altering traditional perceptions of what a room (the building itself) has to offer , and what the equipment or furniture offers, nothing is given a priori – except for the desire to help generate new possibilities. Anders Brix has collected examples which demonstrate that the boundaries between room and furniture are not necessarily fixed. For example, the chairs might be the floor, and vice versa, and a staircase may have certain furniture functions. The emphasis is on the interactions between the room, equipment, furniture and, not least, the human activities in the room.

Anders Brix explores this topic in projects such as The adaptive room, Configurable rooms, Fixed and fluid, or Room and furniture, furniture and room. Through this part of his work Anders Brix hopes to help make it possible to create flexible rooms (and equipment and furniture) – suited for multiple purposes, all with specific requirements for seating options, workspaces, floor space, lighting or ambience, etc. In natural extension of this, Anders Brix also heads a research project that has as one of its aims to initiate a strategic network for furniture designers, furniture manufacturers and researchers. See the article Research Promotes Innovation in the Danish Furniture Industry.

Another area that holds Anders Brix’ interest is the use of modern industrial techniques and materials for developing design and architecture. In pursuit of this interest, he engages in projects with industrial enterprises on an ongoing basis. In the research project Arkitektonisk formsyntaks på grundlag af industrielle formpotentialer (Architectural syntax of form based on industrial form potentials) Anders Brix seeks to uncover the potentials for IT-based design and production of user-adapted, individual products. One of the goals of the project is to create an artistically useful overview of the possibilities of form in modern, CNC-based (computer-controlled) industrial production.

As an architect Anders Brix works in every scale. The main emphasis in his work is on innovative and aesthetically demanding assignments in the fields of industrial design, furniture design, and equipment for landscape design and urban environments.

Anders Brix is a member of Kunstnersamfundet (Society of Art) and an aesthetic advisor to the Danish Road Directorate and several enterprises. Among other public positions, he is a member of the Design Council and a member of the board for the company Modulex AS.

Anders Brix graduated as an architect from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture in 1990.

Key words Form, industrial design, design theory, innovation, concept development, aesthetic form, industrial processes, industrial materials, furniture, outfitting, infrastructure, transportation