The
Royal Danish Academy of Portraiture, Sculpture, and Architecture in Copenhagen was inaugurated on 31 March 1754, and given as a gift to the King
Frederik V on his 31st birthday. Its name was changed to the
Royal Danish Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in 1771. At the same event,
Johann Friedrich Struensee introduced a new scheme in the academy to encourage artisan apprentices to take supplementary classes in drawing so as to develop the notion of "good taste". The building boom resulting from the
Great Fire of 1795 greatly profited from this initiative. In 1814 the name was changed again, this time to the
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. It is still situated in its original building, the
Charlottenborg Palace, located on the
Kongens Nytorv in
Copenhagen. The School of Architecture has been situated in former naval buildings on
Holmen since 1996. It teaches and conducts research on the subjects of
painting,
sculpting,
architecture,
graphics,
photography,
performance, and
video, as well as in the history of those subjects. The academy is under the administration of the
Danish Ministry of Culture. The School of Architecture, Design and Conservation is separated from Schools of Visual arts and therefore is a different institution(KADK) ==Institutions==