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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.    […]