‘Style’ has long been a reviled concept in modern architecture. From Mies van der Rohe equating style with formalism, to Rem Koolhaas parroting Le Corbusier’s ‘The “styles” are a lie’ in his S,M,L,XL glossary, style has been viewed with suspicion by architects and historians for most of the twentieth century. The scepticism persists. Apart from a brief [...]

2019’s Urban Preservation (UP) picks up the current buzz on late Brutalist Low Rise High Density and terraced housing projects looking at Oslo’s own Vestli; built by Selvaag Bygg (1968-78). Combining heritage preservation and working with community provides a basis for potential solutions to changes identified through workshops at Vestli carried out in 2018. These [...]

OCCAS repeats last year’s success and presents an updated version of the sudio course Moving Monuments: Rome. The course offers a study of historical monuments, tracing a selection of them through history – as well as history through its many mediations. “Moving” may refer to the actual transportation of architecture but also to the circulation and [...]

Students: Alvar Aronija, Agnete Winsnes Astrup, Palak Dudani, Alexia Kondyliou, Stian Opsal, Fredrik Rognerud, Nikolai Lieblein Røsæg, Yile Xu. The Printed and the Built was a research based elective course, studying the relationship between architecture and the popular press in the 19th century. Looking particularly at illustrated journals such as The Illustrated London News, Illustreret Nyhedsblad, and Skilling-Magazin, this [...]

The elective course Piranesi and the Modern Age, taught by Victor Plahte Tschudi, takes as a point of departure the enigmatic visions of the architect, archaeologist, designer and engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78). The course focuses not on Piranesi himself but on the rediscovery of him from 1900 onwards and the influence his prints had [...]

The OCCAS studio course Moving Monuments: Rome offers a study of historical monuments. It traces a selection of monuments through history – as well as history through its many mediations. “Moving” may refer to the actual transportation of architecture but also to the circulation and recreation of monuments in various media and materials, from print [...]

Although architects’ graphic and textual production had been exchanged, collected and exposed since the neo-classical period, the act of ‘curating’ architecture has only been amplified in the post-war period. Indeed, in the second half of the twentieth century and up to our days, architecture exhibitions have been important testing grounds, allowing architects to discuss, expand [...]

How does the conception of the ‘home’ transform in a situation of global migration? In relation to the theme proposed by the curators of the 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennale (After Belonging: A Triennale In-Residence, On-Residence and the Ways We Stay In-Transit), this course aimed to investigate the notion of the ‘home’ and its spatial implications [...]

In the autumn semester 2014, two master students have been affiliated to the Printed and Built research project, designing and curating an exhibition on the Norwegian Parliament building. From 1835 to 1860, around 20 projects were made for a Norwegian Parliament building, evoking a vivid public debate regarding the building’s siting, style, and spaces. The [...]

The course is not about how cities change throughout history but about how maps and models change the images of cities. From antiquity to the present urban images are subjected to various rhetorical, didactic and idealizing adjustments. Utopia, reconstruction and moral exemplum count for some of the different urban categories to be examined. The material [...]

Re-Store will examine restoration as a tool for re-imagining reality. Invoking preservation and archaeological methods, we will observe the built environment as an archaeologists’ open source library of proposals, to which we can intervene and inject. We will analyze history as a design process, and create timelines of development from past to future.     [...]

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) turned the fantastical into aesthetics. He programmed the transcendent and irrational as a norm, creating an “anti-architecture” that not only broke with established rules and conventions in building, but which have offered a corrective for architects and urban planners to this day. Graphic series like the Carceri have become metaphors of [...]

The collaboration of art forms has remained a dream for artists, designers and architects, designed to transgress narrow boundaries, create new societies and foster an architecture that embraces a still more complex reality. The Gesamtkunstwerk or Total Work of Art has recurred to describe, critically or confirming, contemporary experiments combining design, architecture and art. The [...]