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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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, […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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; […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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