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Book Launch

Jan 16, 2018, 18:30
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

The book Plaster Monuments. Architecture and the Power of Reproduction, written by Mari Lending and published by Princeton University Press, was launched in the gallery overlooking the Cast Courts at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on January 16. The book was presented by Antonia Boström, Keeper of the Sculpture, Ceramics, Metalwork and Glass [...]

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Piranesi and the Modern Age

Nov 27, 2017 - Dec 8, 2017
AHO Gallery, Oslo

Piranesi and the Modern Age takes as a point of departure the prints of the Italian Etcher, architect and designer Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–78). The exhibition explores the idea that piranesi not merely influenced the modern age – in film,  photography, art and architecture – but that the idea of the modern as such partly [...]

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Images of Egypt

Apr 28, 2017 - May 11, 2017
AHO Gallery, Oslo

Since the Napoleonic occupation of the country in 1798, images of Egypt have played continuously on the European mind. A geopolitical hotspot, Egypt was central in 19th and 20th century reconceptualisations of time and speed, infrastructure and technology, aesthetics and movement, all negotiated through circulating imagery. This exhibition traces the history of moving images and [...]

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Book Launch

Nov 26, 2016, 18:30
Ca'Giustinian, Biennale di Venezia

The book Exhibiting the Postmodern: The 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale, written by Léa-Catherine Szacka and published by Marsilio, was launched at the Biennale di Venezia with a panel including the participation of Roberto Zancan (Chair UNESCO and IUAV Venice); Marco de Michelis (IUAV Venice); Oliver Elser (DAM Museum Frankfurt; Manuel Orazi (Università di Bologna), and Léa-Catherine [...]

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Book Launch

Oct 13, 2016, 18:00
Royal Norwegian Consulate General, New York

The book Baroque Antiquity: Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe, written by Victor Plahte Tschudi and published by Cambridge University Press, was launched at the residence of the Consul General in New York on October 13. The book was presented by Prof. Christopher Wood, New York University, and Prof. Victor Plahte Tschudi, AHO. The presentation [...]

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Doctoral Defense

Aug 26, 2016, 10:00
AHO, Oslo

Natalie Hope O’Donnell defended her PhD thesis ”Space as curatorial practice: the exhibition as a spatial construct. ‘Ny kunst i tusen år’ (1970), ‘Vår Verden av Ting – Objekter’ (1970) and ‘Norsk Middelalderkunst’ (1972) at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter.”  The members of the adjudication committee were Professor Peter Lang, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm; Senior Lecturer Annika Öhrner, Södertörn University, Stockholm; and [...]

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Book Launch

Mar 12, 2016
Architecture Museum, Oslo

The edited collection Debatten om stortingsbygningen 1836-1866, edited by Mari Hvattum, chronicles the heated debate over the Norwegian parliament building around the middle of the nineteenth century. Gathering 65 primary texts written by politicians, intellectuals, artists and architects in newspapers, magazines and proceedings, the collection brings to the fore the close relationship between architecture, publication culture, and public debate [...]

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Renaissance Prototypes

Sep 28, 2016 - Sep 30, 2016
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo

The Norwegian Renaissance Society is pleased to announce the three-day conference Renaissance Prototypes, Tensions of Past and Present in Early Modern Europe. ​Call for papers The conference Renaissance Prototypes will focus on that particular early modern notion of the past as composed of predictions of the future. “Prototype” was a term coined in the Renaissance [...]

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Doctoral Defense

Feb 26, 2016, 10:00
AHO, Oslo

Tina Di Carlo, PhD candidate in the OCCAS research project Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture, defended her dissertation The Construction of an Exhibition within Architecture Culture: Deconstructivist Architecture, The Museum of Modern Art, 1988. The members of the adjudication committee were professor Philip Ursprung, ETH, Zürich, associate professor Patricia Morton, University of California, Riverside, and [...]

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Casting a Cast

Jul 17, 2015, 19:00
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Friday night July 17, 2015, the V&A holds a conversation between Jorge Otero-Pailos and Mari Lending on Otero-Pailos’  ’The Ethics of Dust: Trajan’s Column’, which is on view in the Cast Courts. The work was commissioned by the V&A as part of the show ‘All Of This Belongs To You’, co-curated by Rory Hyde, Corinna [...]

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Experimental Preservation

Jul 17, 2015, 15:30
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

‘Hosting Experimental Preservation at the V&A’ is a roundtable event that coincides with the exhibition ‘All of This Belongs To You’ that features the work of artist and preservationist Jorge Otero-Pailos. This roundtable is co-organised by the Victoria & Albert Museum and Jorge Otero-Pailos, and brings together leading voices in this emerging field, and new [...]

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Reading Architecture

Jun 16, 2015 - Jun 18, 2015
Benaki Museum, Athens

Mari Lending, professor of history of theory at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and co-founder of OCCAS, gave a key note presentation, titled ‘Fabrics of Reality in Fiction’, at the Reading Architecture symposium. The event was organised by the History and Theory Program, School of Architecture, McGill University and hosted at the Benaki Museum in Athens, [...]

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Book Launch

May 19, 2015, 11:00
AHO, Oslo

“A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of postmodernism”. In 1980, reporting on the First Venice Architecture Biennale, French journalist Gérard-Georges Lemaire adapted Marx and Engels’ famous formula, used as opening passages of The Communist Manifesto, in order to describe the state of affaire in European architectural culture. But what exactly had happen to architecture between [...]

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Gold for Modelling Time

Apr 1, 2015
Oslo

Modelling Time. The Permanent Collection 1925-2014 won the prize for the most beautiful non-fiction book of the year by the Norwegian graphics organization Grafill. The book is edited by Mari Lending and Mari Hvattum in conjunction with the AHO master studio “Architecture on Display”. Modelling Time is designed by Anders Hofgaard, NODE Berlin/Oslo, and published [...]

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Book Launch

Apr 22, 2015
AHO, Oslo

The book Hva er arkitektur [What is Architecture], written by Mari Hvattum as part of Universitetsforlaget’s “what is” series, was launched on Wednesday 22 April 2015 at 3 pm in the AHO cantina. Written as an accessible introduction to architecture as a discipline and a phenomenon, the book addresses students, practitioners, and the general public. [...]

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Heterologies of the Everyday

Mar 19, 2015 - Mar 20, 2015
University of Oslo, Oslo

Charlotte Klonk, professor of art history at the Humboldt University in Berlin and member of the OCCAS advisory board, gave a key note lecture at the conference “Exhibiting the Every Day”, 19-20 March 2015. The conference is part of the study circle ‘Heterologies of the Everyday’, funded by the Nordic Summer University. Organised jointly by the [...]

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A Creation of Our Time

Dec 16, 2014
AHO, Oslo

The exhibition “A Creation of Our Time. The Debate over the Norwegian Parliament Building 1835-1860″ was officially opened at AHO on Tuesday December 16 by the President of the Norwegian Parliament, Olemic Thommessen. The exhibition shows relief models of six of the most contested projects for the Norwegian Parliament building, made between 1856 and 1860. In addition, [...]

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The Printed and the Built: First International Symposium

Oct 23, 2014 - Oct 25, 2014
AHO, Oslo

The Printed and the Built project held its first international symposium in Oslo, October 23–25, 2014. In addition to the local project team, the scholars invited were Caroline van Eck from University of Leiden, Adrian Forty from University College London, Richard Wittman from University of California, Santa Barbara, and Wallis Miller from University of Kentucky.   [...]

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Architecture in Translation

Sep 27, 2014 - Sep 28, 2014
Arsenale di Venezia, Venice

As part of the Weekend Specials, the seminar “Architecture in Translation: The Mediation of Social and Urban Spaces” set out to explore translation in architecture from a number of angles. Sherry Simon, Shumi Bose, Gro Bonesmo, Anna Andersen, Marina Lathouri, Roberta Marcaccio, Mari Lending, and Joan Ockman presented, ending with a roundtable with Rem Koolhaas, [...]

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Effimero: Or the Postmodern Italian Condition

Jun 7, 2014 - Nov 23, 2014
Arsenale di Venezia, Venice

Installation par of the Monditalia exhibition at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia,“a scan across the Italian territory from South to North, and more extensively from Africa to the Alps and Europe.” “Effimero: Or the Postmodern Italian Condition” tells the story of the series of ephemeral works of architecture constructed in [...]

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Book Launch

Aug 27, 2014, 13:00
Christiania Penitentiary (Oslo Fengsel avdeling A) , Oslo

Heinrich Ernst Schirmer (1814–1887) was one of the most significant architects of 19th century Norway. He designed churches, prisons, schools, stations, hospitals and houses all over the country, including Norway’s first penitentiary, the first mental hospital, and the first public museum; The National Gallery in Oslo. The poet J.S. Welhaven described Schirmer as “our best [...]

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Book Launch

Jun 20, 2014, 11:15
Castello del Valentino, Turin

At the third international meeting of the European Architectural History Network in Turin, the editors Mari Lending and Mari Hvattum will present the book Modelling Time: The Permanent Collection 1925–2014. Springing from a master studio at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and the exhibition Model as Ruin at the House of Artists in [...]

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Experimental Preservation

Jun 5, 2014, 17:00
Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, Venice

The roundtable Experimental Preservation will bring leading voices of this emerging field into conversation to critically examine its defining aesthetics, strategies and ambitions. The roundtable is co-organized and will be moderated by Thordis Arrhenius, Erik Langdalen and Jorge Otero-Pailos. Presentations by: Andreas Angeladakis, Architect, Athens Lucia Allais, Princeton University Svetlana Boym, Harvard University Reinhard Kropf, Helen & [...]

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Berlin Documentary 3. Preservation Design

May 31, 2014, 12:00
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

To what extend is preservation a proactive process, one that is as much concerned with the past as with the design of contemporary politics and identities? Over three lectures, the Preservation Design seminar explores issues of preservation, authenticity, and the document in the built environment. In a lecture titled The Authentic, Thordis Arrhenius explores the consequences of the notion [...]

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Book Launch

Jun 6, 2014, 16.30
Nordic pavilion, Guardini, Venice

The Nordic Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale is the site for the launch of  Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture, published with Lars Müller Publishers in Zurich. The book which springs from a symposium in Oslo held in 2013, includes new essays by Felicity D. Scott, Martin Braathen, Helena Matsson, Nathalie Hope O’Donnell, Daniel Birnbaum, Sven-Olov Wallenstein, [...]

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2000+: The Urgency of Architectural Theory

Apr 18, 2014, 10:00
Columbia University, NYC

Stepping down as Dean of GSAPP, Columbia University, Mark Wigley invited a group of scholars to explore the responsibility and opportunity for architectural theory. OCCAS scholar Mari Lending presented, together with Lucia Allais, Beatriz Colomina, Mark Cousins, Arindam Dutta, Keller Easterling, John Harwood, Catherine Ingraham, Mark Jarzombek, Spyros Papapetros, Beatriz Preciado, Felicity Scott, Pelin Tan, [...]

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Experimental Preservation: Restoring the Recent Past

Mar 27, 2014 - Mar 28, 2014
AHO, Oslo

The symposium gathers a group of outstanding practitioners from Russia, Germany, the Netherlands, USA, Sweden and Norway to discuss the emergence of experimental preservation within architecture and art, having a special focus on the reuse of post-war structures. The event is an opportunity to meet leading figures within this burgeoning field, and to exchange ideas, [...]

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Doctoral Defence

Nov 22, 2013, 10:00
AHO, Oslo

Mattias Ekman, formerly PhD candidate at Institute for Form, Theory and History at AHO in affiliation with OCCAS, successfully defended his thesis Edifices. Architecture and the Spatial Frameworks of Memory on 22 November 2013. The members of the adjudication committee were Adrian Forty (first opponent), Professor of Architectural History, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University [...]

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Italy and the Nordic Architects

Nov 14, 2013 - Nov 15, 2013
Accademia di San Luca, Rome

Ninety years after Gunnar Asplund’s Italian journey, Nordic and Italian scholars gather in Rome to explore exchanges between Nordic and Mediterranean architectural cultures. Carnets, sketches, drawings, photographs, reports, letters and journals are studied to investigate the effects of architects’ travels between the North and the South across centuries. The symposium takes place at the Accademia [...]

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Documentary Remains

Nov 14, 2013
Columbia University, NYC

OCCAS scholar Thordis Arrhenius  gives a  keynote lecture at the conference Documentary Remains at GSAPP, Columbia University, November 14th 2013. Arranged by Mark Wasuita, the conference looks at 20th century exhibitions and exhibition research. Using archives, records, documents and remains as its points of departure, the conference addresses the apparent imbalance between the centrality claimed for exhibitions in contemporary scholarship and the [...]

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Gottfried Semper et les débuts d’une science des artefacts

Nov 8, 2013
INHA, Paris

Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) in Paris hosts the seminar series Arts, innovation, industrie: Gottfried Semper et les débuts d’une science des artefacts, organised jointly by INHA, L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Musée des arts décoratifs, École nationale supérieure de création industrielle, and the University of Leiden. Mari Hvattum contributes to [...]

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Book Launch

Nov 6, 2013, 12:00
AHO, Oslo

  Arkitekturdepoter: Piranesistikk og stavkirkeportaler, with essays by students from the OCCAS elective courses ”Architectural Fantasies: Piranesi &Co” and ”The Art of Collecting Architecture” will be launched at AHO this week. Victor Plahte Tschudi and Mari Lending led the seminars and edited and introduced the book. Carolina Santos Coelho, Thomas Johannessen, Torbjørn Kolbeinsen, Christiana Thorsen [...]

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Model as Ruin

Nov 1, 2013 - Dec 8, 2013
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo

In September 1931, a grand display of contemporary Norwegian architecture was shown in the House of Artists in Oslo. The recently inaugurated Kunsthalle was filled to the brim by scale models, photographs, drawings, and installations. At the core of the exhibition was the “Permanent Collection” of scale models and photography, founded by Norwegian architects in [...]

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Pippo Ciorra: Triennale Lecture

Oct 23, 2013, 14:00
AHO, Oslo

OCCAS has invited Pippo Ciorra, Chief Curator of Architecture, MAXXI, Rome to lecture on “Sustainability: A Claim for Aesthetics”, as part of The Oslo Triennale 2013. Ciorra will give a critical, exibitionary view on sustainability through Re-cycling and Energy, drawing on his two recent shows ENERGY. Oil and Post-Oil Architecture and Grids (2013) and Re-Cycle. [...]

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Architecture in the Age of Radio: Mark Wigley

Oct 11, 2013, 13:00
Museum of Architecture, Oslo

For the ForArt lecture 2013, ForArt in collaboration with OCCAS, invited Mark Wigley, Dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, to explore architecture’s nervous encounter with liquids—the material flows in pipes and the immaterial flows of radio waves. The lecture “Pipeless Dreams” will be held at Litteraturhuset Friday at 6 pm, [...]

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OCCAS at Yale

Oct 3, 2013 - Oct 5, 2013
Yale School of Architecture, New Haven

The ambition to exhibit architecture always entails a paradox: how to exhibit something so large and complex as a building or a city or how to represent something as elusive as an architectural experience that unfolds in space and time? The Yale Symposium Exhibiting Architecture: A Paradox? invited OCCAS scholars Mari Lending, Léa-Cathrine Szacka, and [...]

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OCCAS in Chandigarh

Oct 3, 2013 - Oct 4, 2013
Chandigarh

Arranged by Chitkara University, Punjab, India in collaboration with ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on 20th Century Heritage, Foundation Le Corbusier, Getty Foundation and several other local and international institutions the conference focused on the preservation, identification of 20-century heritage. With Chandigarh as a case, the conference examined the scope and the challenges of managing the recent [...]

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Architecture and Design Museums in Germany Today

May 31, 2013, 14:30
AHO, Oslo

The seminar “Architecture and Design Museums in Germany Today” takes OCCAS outside of Scandinavia to discuss continuity and change in museums. Guest lecturers Andres Lepik, Director of the Architecture Museum in Munich, and Esther Cleven, head curator of Design at the Bauhaus Museum in Weimar are both recent apointees to their posts. Their presentations focus the discussion on [...]

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Doctoral Defense

Mar 22, 2013, 10:00
AHO, Oslo

Even Smith Wergeland defended the thesis titled  From Utopia to Reality – the Motorway as a Work of Art on 22 March 2013. It was approved by the following adjudication committee: Professor David Pinder, Roskilde University, professor Siri Skjold Lexau, University of Bergen, and associate professor Jonny Aspen, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design.    [...]

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Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture

Apr 25, 2013 - Apr 27, 2013
The National Museum, Oslo

Within the framework of the OCCAS research project Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture, we have invited scholars from the new research field of architectural exhibitions to discuss on‐going work that explores the exhibition as an architectural medium par excellence. The three sessions – Display, Canon and Time – overlap and intersect thematically. The symposium will [...]

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Book Launch

Feb 4, 2013, 17:00
Gamle Aker Kirke, Oslo

Pax Forlag and OCCAS invite to an open book launch and mini-seminar on the new anthology Vor Tids Fordringer. Norske arkitekturdebatter 1818–1919 [The Demands of our Time. Norwegian debates on architecture 1818–1919], edited by OCCAS-scholars Mari Lending and Mari Hvattum. The launch is held in Old Aker Church, Oslo, February 4 2013 at 1700. Speakers include Rune Slagstad, Håkon Gundersen, Kristin Bliksrud Aavitsland, and Helge Jordheim. Welcome!

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NJoA on Alteration / Launch in Stockholm

Jan 31, 2013, 15:30
KTH, Stockholm

KTH School of Architecture is delighted to host the launch of the third issue of the Nordic Journal of Architecture, edited by Mari Lending, AHO and guest edited by Tim Anstey and Catharina Gabrielsson, KTH School of Architecture, on the theme “Alteration”. The launch will take place at the School of Architecture Library, Östermalmsg 26, Stockholm, [...]

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Exhibitions and Canonization

Oct 24, 2012 - Oct 25, 2012
Stockholm University, Stockholm

Under the heading Exhibitions and the Canon of Modern Architecture, Wallis Miller and Mari Lending will co-chair two panels onat the annual NORDIK art history conference in Stockholm. “Part I: Exhibitions that Shaped Modern Architecture” and “Part II: Modern architecture After the Fact” will investigate the productive role of architectural exhibitions, as well as questions of [...]

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Routes in Stourhead

Oct 18, 2012 - Oct 20, 2012
Stourhead, Wiltshire

The Routes project arranged an ambulatory seminar in the Stourhead gardens in Wiltshire, UK. Finola O’Kane from UCD Dublin, Stephen Daniels from the University of Nottingham, Katja Grillner from KTH Stockholm, and Antoine Picon from GSD Harvard joined the Routes team for inspiring discussions on the relationship between routes, landscapes, technology and architecture in the [...]

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Heritage Values in Growing Cities

Oct 2, 2012, 0900
AHO, Oslo

OCCAS hosted the symposium “Heritage Values in Growing Cities” at AHO. Organized by Thordis Arrhenius and Lothar Diem in collaboration with Oslo municipality’s heritage management office, the event was conceived as part of officially celebrating the centenary for Norway’s Directorate for Cultural Heritage. The symposium addressed questions on current practice in heritage management in relation [...]

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Design Research: Four Examples from Scandinavia

Sep 21, 2012 - Sep 22, 2012
University of Kentucky, Lexington

Wallis Miller and Dean Michael Speaks hosted a symposium called “Design Research: Four Examples from Scandinavia.”  Mari Lending (AHO), Katja Grillner (KTH, Stockholm), Jonas Runberger (White Architects, Stockholm) and Ville Kokkonen (Artek, Helsinki) discussed the implications of pursuing design as research at a university, in practice and in manufacturing with the faculty of the College of [...]

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The Historiography of Norwegian Architecture

Sep 21, 2012
National Museum, Oslo

Are national histories of architecture any longer relevant, and what is a “Norwegian” history of architecture, anyway? Given the plans to write a new history of Norwegian architecture, these are topical questions. Invited scholars and PhD students from several universities presented position statements and papers on this one day seminar on the historiography of Norwegian [...]

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Shifting Ground

Aug 30, 2012, 1500
Arsenale,Venice

Resonating with chief curator David Chipperfield’s theme “Common Ground” for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012, the School of Architecture, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, is organizing the panel “Shifting Ground” in the biennale’s special program for universities. Léa-Catherine Szacka, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Pippo Chirra, MAXXI Architettura, Rome; Mari Lending, Oslo School of Architecture and Design; [...]

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The Fragile Monument launches in Venice

Aug 28, 2012, 1400
Nordic pavilion, Guardini, Venice

OCCAS and Artifice Books celebrate the launch of the Fragile Monument by  Thordis Arrhenius at this year’s Venice Biennale. Duncan Mccorquodale of Artifice books on architecture will be in  conversation with OCCAS scholars Thordis Arrhenius, Mari Lending and Jorge Otero Pailos on the contemporary need  for critical architectural scholarship and publications. Heritage objects today—monuments, city-quarters, regions,  [...]

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Gesamtkunstwerk Launches in Oslo

Aug 14, 2012, 17:00
AHO, Oslo

OCCAS scholar Anders V. Munch launches his new book Fra Bayreuth til Bauhus. Gesamtkunstwerk’et og de moderne kunstformer, Aarhus University Press (2012).  Over more than 600 pages, Munch’s study is a veritable tour de force, following the concept of the Geamtkunstwerk from Richard Wagner’s seminal texts and beyond modernism, casting new light on the history and historicity [...]

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Re/Theorising Heritage

Jun 5, 2012 - Jun 8, 2012
University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg

OCCAS scholars Thordis Arrhenius, Jorge Oterio- Pailos and Lothar Diem will participate in the Inaugural Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies on the Re/theorisation of Heritage Studies. The Association of Critical Heritage Studies, to be launched at this conference, will establish in association with International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS) an extensive network [...]

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Poetics of Cliché

May 25, 2012, 1400
AHO, Oslo

Mark Cousins, Director of Histories and Theory at the Architectural Association, London will speak on The Cliché. The cliché represents an insoluble problem for language and art in modernity. Technology, cities and forms of signification all entail a radical increase in the volume and density of discourse. This produces both a standardisation of discourse and a [...]

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Center of Excellence: OCCAS a Finalist

May 16, 2012
Oslo

  On Thursday May 16th the Norwegian Research Council announced that OCCAS has entered the final application round for becoming a Center of Excellence.  Of the 139 original applicants, 29 center proposals have entered the final round of the competition for 5+5 years extensive funding. OCCAS is applying with the project “Nordic Architectural Culture, 1850–2050” [...]

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Launch: Nordic Journal of Architecture #2

Jun 1, 2012, 14:00
Palais des Academies, Brussels

The second issue of Nordic Journal of Architecture will be launched at the EAHN conference in Brussels. Entitled “Nonumentality”, the special section is guest edited by Mari Hvattum, and revisits the architectural culture of post war Scandinavia.

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New Ideas, New Models? Architectural Representation and its Object in the 20th Century

May 31, 2012 - Jun 3, 2012
EAHN, Brussels

For the second international EAHN meeting in Brussels, Wallis Miller and Mari Lending will chair the panel New ideas, New Models? Architectural Representation and its Object in the Twentieth Century. The architectural model represents a particular mode of reflection. Oscillating between the abstract and the concrete, the model is a working tool for conceiving, developing, [...]

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Architectural History in Contemporary Practice

May 3, 2012 - May 4, 2012
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg

Professor Mari Lending presents the keynote lecture “On Architectural History in the Architectural Studio.” The conference, arranged by professors Claes Caldenby and Fredrik Nilsson, Chalmers, gathered architects, scholars and conservationist to discuss the role of architectural history in contemporary practice.

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Tragedy Sites, Architecture and Values

Mar 12, 2012, 15:00 - 17:00
AHO, Oslo

This is the second OCCAS seminar on the future of the government quarter after the 22 July bombing. Randall Mason, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania will speak from the perspective of values-centered conservation. Mattias Ekman will comment on the ongoing debate about demolition or restoration. Christian Ebbesen will introduce value assessment in relation to the work done by the ministry of government administration (FAD).

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Exhibitions and the Canon of Modern Architecture

Oct 24, 2012 - Oct 27, 2012
Stockholm

Wallis Miller and Mari Lending will chair the panel: Exhibitions and the Canon of Modern Architecture. What do we know about the role of exhibitions in the formation, confirmation, and rejection of the canon in the field of the History of Modern Architecture? There has been much recent interest focusing on the role of exhibitions [...]

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Making the Historical Contemporary

Oct 10, 2011
Norwegian Museum of Architecture, Oslo

Organized by Wallis Miller, Mari Lending, and Erik Langdalen and The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo this one day seminar will consider issues surrounding the installation of a new permanent exhibition of Norwegian architecture. This enterprise poses interesting dilemmas, as the exhibition has to deal with the troubling concept of a national canon, the selection of emblematic works and the overall curating of architectural history. The National Museum will plan the exhibition in collaboration with OCCAS.

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On Scale

Mar 1, 2012 - Mar 3, 2012
Norwegian Institute, Rome

Scholars from Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture gathered in Rome at the Norwegian Institute for a seminar: On Scale. The participants took scale to task to reconsider its relevance within the historical and contemporary practices of exhibiting architecture, amongst the city whose history perhaps best problematizes the issue. The program, which considered issues of monumentality and preservation, models and [...]

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Exhibiting the Postmodern

Nov 17, 2011, 14:00
AHO, Oslo

Léa-Catherine Szacka presents her PhD dissertation Exhibiting the Postmodern: Three Narratives for a History of the 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale. The 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale ‘The Presence of the Past’was a multi-faceted display of international contemporary architecture with an Italo-American twist. Successfully playing on postmodern form and content, this exhibition marked a new relation between the worlds [...]

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