Regin Schwaen is an Associate Professor at North Dakota State University where he teaches and lectures in architecture in the Department of Architecture & Landscape Architecture. He moved to the US in 2000 after teaching architecture for 5 years at The Royal Academy in Copenhagen. He has received several prizes and honorable mentions in domestic and international competitions and participated in many exhibitions. In 2005 he was among the finalist with a proposal for the Mosaic Foundation in Washington DC. In 2003, in collaboration with Margarita McGrath, the proposal ‘Smile Island’ for the lakeshore of Chicago was recognized as a Notable Design Scheme by the Graham Foundation. In 2002 he was exhibited and published in ‘The Secret of the Shadow – Light and Shadow in Architecture’ at Deutsches Architektur Museum in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Regin Schwaen studied 2 years at Düsseldorf Kunstakademie, 2 years in London, and began and finished his education at Arkitektskolen i Aarhus in Denmark. His research interests are in the area of minimal structures in concrete.
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