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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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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