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From the Podcast Archive: Architecture is more than buildings in cities

Are we operating within an underlying urban bias? And what would it mean to take the rural seriously as a place of life, ecology, and practice in its own right?

April 29, 2026

As debates about rural life resurface across Denmark, including in Altinget's highly recommended podcast _Aftryk_, the countryside is once again being cast as a political battleground. The debate is not new, but it is encouraging to see it begin to move beyond a long-standing assumption: that the countryside mainly matters insofar as it serves the urban environement or the agricultural industry.

It led us to revisit this episode from the archives with the Danish architecture studio Rural Agency, which enters that shift.

Are we operating within an underlying urban bias? And what would it mean to take the rural seriously as a place of life, ecology, and practice in its own right?

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