Piranesi and the Modern explores the significance for posterity of the eighteenth-century printmaker and architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). While Piranesi’s art was overlooked and unappreciated for much of the nineteenth century, it was rediscovered in the following century. From the start of the twentieth century, his architectural visions contributed to defining the Modern in […]

In July 1798, General Bonaparte invaded Egypt with an army of soldiers, engineers and scholars. One month later, Admiral Nelson destroyed the French fleet in the Battle of the Nile. Situated between Europe and India, Egypt now became the Middle East for European empires. Since then, images of Egyptian landscapes and monuments have circulated as […]

Piranesi and the Modern Age takes as a point of departure the prints of the Italian Etcher, architect and designer Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–78). The exhibition explores the idea that piranesi not merely influenced the modern age – in film,  photography, art and architecture – but that the idea of the modern as such partly […]

The exhibition “A Creation of Our Time. The Debate over the Norwegian Parliament Building 1835-1860″ was officially opened at AHO on Tuesday December 16 by the President of the Norwegian Parliament, Olemic Thommessen. The exhibition shows relief models of six of the most contested projects for the Norwegian Parliament building, made between 1856 and 1860. In addition, […]

Installation par of the Monditalia exhibition at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia,“a scan across the Italian territory from South to North, and more extensively from Africa to the Alps and Europe.” “Effimero: Or the Postmodern Italian Condition” tells the story of the series of ephemeral works of architecture constructed in […]