Per Ravn, born 1979 2007 Aarhus School of Architecture 2007 Cubo Arkitekter 2013 Partner and co-owner of Cubo Arkitekter Cubo Arkitekter designed SOMBRERO, BALLO and OWEN for Lampas. Cubo Per Ravn Per went straight from Aarhus school of Architecture to Cubo Arkitekter, where he is now a partner and co-owner. His many responsibilities include the design division at Cubo, which is housed in a converted printing works. How did you come to be an architect? I’ve always loved to draw. When I did visual arts in high school, I started painting. It was kind of a sanctuary from the academic subjects, to paint at night to loud music. I noticed that I always painted rooms. It was always boxes behind one another or something else spatial. My father was an electrician and loved PH-lamps and Arne Ja- cobsen lamps. He had the book ‘Tænd!’ about the PH-lamp, and I have browsed through it fre- quently. At one point I realised that I wanted to be an architect too. However, first I was part of the Band of the Royal Life Guards, as I was a pretty decent drummer and wanted to experience that dream too. That was relevant to this context, since I came away from the Royal Life Guards with con- cepts such as rhythm, tempo and accents. To prepare for the entrance exam for Aarhus School of Architecture, I attended Krabbesholm Højskole, where I studied art. My project for the entrance exam was about stairs, and how an ob- ject can be worn and changed, but its function remains the same. At the School of Architecture, the concepts drawn from my time with the Royal Life Guards came into play again. The rhythm of a row of windows, or the way in which you can accentuate architectural elements. I went to Institut X, which at the time was a construction programme with the emphasis on 141
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