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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]