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Evidence, Clues and Trifles

Sep 10, 2024 - Oct 8, 2024
ACT#6: Møterom Arkitektur

Microhistory is key to the Provenance Projected: Architecture Past and Future in the Era of Circularity project. In a series of three reading seminars, we will present and discuss some foundational microhistory contributions, a few more recent texts with microhistorical implications, as well as a 1951 detective novel. The seminar will highlight methodological, theoretical and […]

Things That Move. A Hinterland in Architectural History

Jun 5, 2024 - Jun 21, 2024
AA, London - EAHN Conference, Athens

The book Things That Move. A Hinterland in Architectural History, written by Tim Anstey and published by the MIT Press, will be launched at the Architectural Association in London on June 5 and at the EAHN Biannual conference in Athens on June 22. In London, Professors Barbara Penner and Adrian Forty of the Bartlett School […]

Wolkenbügel Multiplied

Mar 22, 2024, 3PM
ACT#4: AHO Gallery

Richard Anderson, University of Edinburgh, present his new book in the OCCAS Higher Seminar: After achieving international acclaim as a painter and designer, El Lissitzky set out in 1924 to convince the world—and himself—that he was also an architect. Working in relative physical isolation as he received treatment for tuberculosis, Lissitzky engaged in an international […]

Eldorado Gothic

Mar 22, 2024, 2PM
ACT#4: AHO Gallery

Timothy Hyde, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, traces an architectural arc that begins in the nineteenth-century mining camps of Gold Rush-era California, and proceeds to the transcontinental ambitions of monuments in the American mountain west, to arrive at the contemporary legal registers of preservation and historical recording. This itinerant American architectural history reveals a mineralogical provenance […]

Mara Trübenbach

Mar 19, 2024
The Oslo School of Architecture and Design

Mara Trübenbach will defend her PhD dissertation “Material Dramaturgy: Tracing Trails of Dust in the Architectural Design Process” on March 19 2023. The committee consists of professor Judith Clark, London College of Fashion; associate professor Andrew Filmer, University of Aberystwyth; and associate professor Josina Vink from AHO. Trübenbach’s research was supervised by Tim Anstey and co-supervised by […]

Itinerant Archives: Exhibition history

Mar 7, 2024, 6–8.30 pm
Architectural Association, London

Professor Tim Anstey and AHO graduates Cathrine Sundem and Max Svendsen join members of the AAxWarburg postgraduate seminar to discuss the relationships between visual archives, travelling models, exhibitions, and architectural pedagogy. Chaired by Ingrid Shroeder, Director, Architectural Association School of Architecture. The event is hosted by OCCAS in association with the AA Public Programme, and […]

Warburg Models: Round and square tables

Mar 2, 2024, 6–8.30 pm
Architectural Association, London

In association with the AA Public Programme, OCCAS hosts two events connected to the exhibition Warburg Models: The Architecture of the Itinerant Archive (AA Gallery, Jan 18–March 7, 2024). Professor Tim Anstey and PhD candidate Mara Trübenbach, AHO (OCCAS), and model make Ellie Sampson join Nicola Barrington-Leach of the Architectural Association in a conversation on […]

Warburg Models: Buildings as Bilderfahrzeuge

Dec 15, 2023, 5pm
Judith Clark Studio, London

On Friday, December 15, 1933, the HAPAG steamship Hermia arrived in London from Hamburg. On board were 531 crates packed with the contents of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, the institute founded by the German art historian Aby Warburg: over 60,000 books, thousands of slides, photographic equipment, book stacks, timber shelving, card catalogues, furniture. On the […]

Vitruvius, the North, and the Genius Loci

Nov 24, 2023
Centro Studi Vitruviani, Fano

2023 witnessed the publication of the first Norwegian translation of Vitruvius’ De Architectura (Om arkitektur, Gyldendal). The event concludes a grand publishing effort finally giving all the Nordic countries a Vitruvius-translations of their own. To mark the occasion, The Centro Studi Vitruviani, located in Vitruvius’ hometown of Fano on the Adriatic Coast, invited one speaker […]

“Bor ikke Gud her lenger?” [Abandoned by God?]

Nov 22, 2023 - Nov 23, 2023
The Oslo School of Architecture and Design

This conference gathered Nordic and international scholars, heritage managers and architects to address the future of Norwegian churches at the threshold of a new era of expanded and alternate uses. Rooted in experiences from Europe and the Nordic countries, the greatest issue at stake was how to care for church buildings at a time of […]

Building Attributes: Judith Clark Studio Projects

Oct 11, 2023, 3PM
ACT#1: OCCAS

Judith Clark, exhibition-maker and Professor of Fashion and Museology, University of the Arts London, will discuss two current research projects that consider new ways of exhibiting examples of 17th century conservation: “After Lady Anne Clifford” and “The Judgement of Paris VIII: after Alessandro Algardi.”

A New Agenda for Gottfried Semper

Mar 17, 2023
ETH, Zürich

Mari Hvattum’s Style and Solitude was one of five books launched at the event A New Agenda for Gottfried Semper at the Collegium Helveticum in Zurich, 17 March 2023. Three roundtables presented new approaches to Semper and celebrated recent publications on his thinking and practice. “Semper’s Life and Times” addressed how new biographical and theoretical […]

Plundering Printed Rome: Copyright and the Manipulation of Monuments in the Sixteenth Century

Feb 2, 2023
Villa I Tatti, Florence

In the hugely profitable print industry of the sixteenth century, copyrights, or so-called privileges, offered an apparently effective protection for popular designs. But printmakers soon found ways to manipulate these designs in ways that constantly challenged the idea of a copy. The lecture addresses how these creative deviations affected the image of ancient Rome and […]

Piranesi and the Modern Age

Dec 2, 2022
The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design

The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design generously hosted the launch of the book Piranesi and the Modern Age to a full auditorium. The launch coincided with the exhibition Piranesi and the Modern, based on the book, and mounted on the museum’s ground floor. The Director of collections, Stina Högkvist, introduced the event. The […]

The Architecture of Copies

Sep 22, 2022 - Sep 23, 2022
Århus University, DK

The symposium The Architecture of Copies /Copies of Architecture at the Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology at Århus University, invited scholars to revisit the borders between the copy and the prototype, acts of imitation and of variation, and to examine the knowledge production and preservation processes involved in the act of […]

Maryia Rusak

Aug 22, 2022
AHO, Oslo

Maryia Rusak defended her PhD dissertation “Factory Made. The Everyday Architecture of Moelven Brug, 1955-1973” on 22 August 2022. The committee consisted of professor Katie Lloyd Thomas, Newcastle University, associate professor Timothy Hyde from MIT, and professor Bjørn Sandaker from AHO. Rusak’s research was supervised by Mari Hvattum.  Rusak’s dissertation studies the prolific building output […]

Warburg Models at Blaker

May 29, 2021, 12:00PM
Guttormsgaards arkiv, Blaker

Architecture, interiors and technological systems were crucial for how Aby Warburg and his followers interrogated culture and memory. Between 1923 and 1958 this lead to six architectural projects. In Warburg’s native Hamburg a purpose designed building, theKulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, was completed in 1926 to accommodate his remarkable collection of books, and a radical conversion was […]

Modelling the Warburg Institute 1926–2021

May 27, 2021, 7PM
Warburg Institute/zoom

The Director’s seminar at the Warburg Institute provides the digital launch for the international exhibition Warburg Models, together with a presentation of Haworth Tompkins’ architects model for the Warburg Renaissance project.With Ellie Sampson, Haworth Tompkins; and Tim Anstey, Mari Lending, Pernille Ahlgren, Nora Kilstad, Cathrine Sundem, Max Svendsen, Karina Tang and Mara Trübenbach, Oslo School of […]

From Camden to Copenhagen and Oslo

Dec 3, 2020, 18:30
20th Century Society

Nearing the end of four years of doctoral studies on heritage and communities of post-war housing, in ‘From Camden to Copenhagen and Oslo’ OCCAS scholar Tom Davies looks at the relationships between Neave Brown’s Alexandra Road, Peter Tábori’s Highgate New Town and the Selvaag Company’s Vestli, East Oslo through to the work of Norwegian/Danish architects […]

Mathilde Simonsen Dahl

Sep 11, 2020
AHO, Oslo

Mathilde Simonsen Dahl graduated from AHO in 2012, with a diploma in History and Theory on the Oslo Architectural Association’s (OAF) 50th anniversary exhibition in 1956. As a PhD student, she was part of the OCCAS research projects Place and Displacement. Exhibiting Architecture and The Printed and the Built. Architecture and Public Debate in Modern Europe. She […]

Constructing History

Oct 25, 2019
AHO, Oslo

This seminar talks about historical method via work in progress. Historians Elizabeth Sears of the University of Michigan and Hilde Heynen from KU Leuven will present two twentieth century contexts where ideas about history and ideas about building met. Focussing on the relationships between the Courtauld and Warburg Institutes in London between 1934 and 1964, Sears’ work confronts […]

PriArc book awarded design prize!

May 23, 2019
Grafill

The lavishly illustrated volume Images of Egypt was awarded the diploma for the most beautiful book of the year at the prestigious award ceremony organized by the Norwegian Association for Visual Communication, GRAFILL. Aslak Gurholt from the design bureau Yokoland has designed the book, which was praised by the jury for its classic yet contemporary flair, […]

Norske Svømmehaller

May 20, 2019, 10:00
AHO, Oslo

                  “Norske Svømmehaller” er et seminar som forener idrettsfaglig og arkitekturfaglig ekspertise med representanter fra norsk offentlig forvaltning. Formålet er å diskutere norske svømmehaller som arkitektur og kulturminner, sett i lys av rådende strategier for folkehelse, fysisk aktivitet og offentlig ressursbruk. Seminaret arrangeres i samarbeid mellom Even Smith Wergeland (AHO/OCCAS) og sentrale aktører […]

The Pen and the Chisel: Outlining Ancient Egypt for a Modern European Future

Jun 26, 2019, 18:45
Royal Drawing School, Shoreditch

When Napoleon entered Egypt in force in 1798, he brought an army of draughtsmen alongside his soldiers. Tasked with depicting the country from its smallest insects to the greatest monuments, drawing was intrinsic to the French imperial ambition and would continue to be so as the European continent grew obsessed with the vestiges of a […]

Rachel Whiteread Symposium

Oct 26, 2018
National Gallery of Art, Washington

Artist Rachel Whiteread has made casts and drawings for more than 30 years in an effort to define the space between positives and negatives, public and private, manufactured and hand-made objects—always with concision, intelligence, beauty, and power. At the National Gallery of Art, an unprecedented and comprehensive survey exhibition of Whiteread’s celebrated career introduces a […]

Archaeology and the Future of Cities and Urban Landscapes

Sep 5, 2018 - Sep 8, 2018
European Association of Archaeologists, Barcelona

At the EAA annual conference, Even Smith Wergeland and Tom Davies are presenting the paper Digging towards the future: the changing role of archaeology in urban planning.

Iver Tangen Stensrud

Jun 20, 2018
AHO, Oslo

Iver Tangen Stensrud defended his PhD dissertation “The magazine and the city – Architecture, urban life and the illustrated press in nineteenth-century Christiania” on 20 June 2018. The committee consisted of professor Narve Fulsaas from the University of Tromsø, professor Barbara Penner from University College London, and associate professor Jonny Aspen from AHO. Stensrud’s research […]

Plaster Monuments. Architecture and the Power of Reproduction

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 […]

The Tools of the Architect

Nov 22, 2017 - Nov 24, 2017
Delft and Rotterdam

Architects have for their activities of drawing, writing and building always depended upon the potential of particular tools –ranging from practical instruments such as straight edges, French curves, compasses, rulers and pencils to conceptual tools such as working drawings, collages, photographic surveys, infographics, diagrams, casts and mass models. As technologies advanced the toolbox of architects […]

Christian Parreno

Jun 23, 2017
AHO, Oslo

Christian Parreno holds an MA in Histories and Theories from the Architectural Association in London, and an architectural degree from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Parreno defended his dissertation “Boredom as Space: Episodes of Modern Architecture»on June 23, 2017.Main advisor: Mari Lending; second advisor Professor Iain Borden, The BartlettSchool of Architecture, University College of London.Adjudication […]

Exhibiting the Postmodern: The 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale

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 […]

Baroque Antiquity: Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe

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 […]

Natalie Hope O’Donnell

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 […]

TIME TRAVEL

Jun 3, 2016
EAHN Dublin

Periodization and obsession with newness still dominate how we think of architecture’s relationship to time. At the EAHN Biannual Conference in Dublin, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Yale University and on the OCCAS board, and Mari Lending organized a double session on Time Travel, to investigate conflating or competing temporalities and to discuss convoluted constellations of architecture and […]

Debatten om stortingsbygningen 1836-1866

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 […]

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 […]

Tina Di Carlo

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Understanding Postmodern Architecture: A Norwegian Perspective

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 […]

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 […]

Hva er arkitektur

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. […]

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 […]

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.   […]

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, […]

Heinrich Ernst Schirmer, Kosmopolittenes arkitekt

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 […]

Modelling Time: The Permanent Collection 1925–2014

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 […]

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 & […]

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 […]

Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture

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, […]

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, […]

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, […]

Mattias Ekman

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Arkitekturdepoter: Piranesistikk og stavkirkeportaler

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 […]

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. […]

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, […]

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-Catherine Szacka, and […]

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 […]

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 […]

Even Smith Wergeland

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.    […]

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 […]

Vor Tids Fordringer. Norske arkitekturdebatter 1818–1919

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!

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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; […]

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,  […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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” […]

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.

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, […]

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.

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).

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.

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 […]

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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