Eirik Arff Gulseth Bøhn is a Ph.D. fellow in architectural history working on the HERA-funded research project Printing the Past. Architecture, Print Culture, and Uses of the Past in Modern Europe (PriArc), where he investigates architectural print culture. In 2018 he curated Images of Egypt, an exhibition at the Historical Museum, Oslo, alongside Mari Lending and […]

Flavia Crisciotti is a Ph.D. candidate, specializing in the history of twentieth-century architecture and exhibitions. Her dissertation project, under the supervision of Professors Andres Lepik (Technische Universität München) and Mari Lending (AHO), examines how the Old Master paintings were mounted by architects in Italy during the Interwar period to the 1960s. Focusing on Antonello da […]

Tom Davies is a buildings archaeologist who works principally with conservation, community engagement and heritage consultancy. His PhD thesis at AHO will evaluate and inform the development of management of Brutalist architecture and its stakeholders, looking to secure long-term futures for sites and buildings and the people who live and work there. He believes that […]

Ingrid Dobloug Roede is a PhD fellow researching architectural mediation and the politics of exchange between Norway, the USA, and the USSR in the years leading up to and immediately following World War II. Her study focuses on professional networks and discursive arenas, among them interest organizations and conferences, and is supervised by Professor Mari Hvattum. Roede received a Science Master in the History, Theory, and Criticism of […]

Jarle Tollefsrud is a PhD Fellow researching the role of the classical tradition and reception of Antiquity in Norway during the long nineteenth-century. The study, supervised by Professor Mari Hvattum, focuses in particular on residential architecture and the diverse ways in which the classical tradition was transported into and transformed in a Norwegian context. The […]

Iver Tangen Stensrud defended his PhD thesis The magazine and the city. Architecture, urban life and the illustrated press in nineteenth-century Christiania on June 20, 2018. Advisor: Professor Mari Hvattum. Adjudication Committee: Professor Narve Fulsås, University of Tromsø, Professor Barbara Penner, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK, and Associate Professor, Jonny Aspen, AHO. The dissertation […]

Christian Parreno defended his PhD dissertation Boredom as Space: Episodes of Modern Architecture June 23, 2017. Advisor: Professor Mari Lending. Adjudication Committee: Professor Mark Jarzombek, School of Architecture and Planning, MIT; Professor Lara Schrijver, Faculty of Design Services, University of Antwerp, and Associate professor Thomas McQuillan, AHO.

Natalie Hope O’Donnell defended her PhD dissertation 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 on August 26, 2016. Advisor: Professor Thordis Arrhenius, AHO/Linköpings Universitet, and Mark Cousins, AA School, London. Adjudication committee: Professor Peter Lang, […]

Mark Robert Mansfield defended his PhD dissertation Modernism and National Romanticism in the Work of Architect Magnus Poulsson (1881–1958) on June 12, 2015. Advisor: Professor Mari Hvattum. Adjudication committee: Professor Eeva-Lisa Pelkonen, School of Architecture, Yale University; Associate professor Espen Johnsen, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Arts and Ideas, University of Oslo, and Associate […]

Mattias Ekman defended his PhD dissertation Edifices. Architecture and the Spatial Frameworks of Memory on November 22, 2013. Advisor: Thordis Arrhenius. Adjudication committee: Adrian Forty, Bartlett School of Architecture, London University College, UK; Kristin Bliksrud Aavitsland, Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, and Thomas McQuillan, Head of Institute of Architecture, AHO. The dissertation can be […]

Even Smith Wergeland defended his PhD dissertation From utopia to reality. The motorway as a work of art on March 22, 2013. Advisor: Mari Hvattum. Adjudication committee: Dr. David Pinder, Professor Siri Skjold Lexau, University of Bergen, and Associate professor Jonny Aspen, AHO.

Lisbet Harboe defended her PhD dissertation Social Concerns in Contemproray Architecture. Three European Practices and their Works on February 27, 2012. Advisor: Mari Hvattum. Adjudication committee: Professor Flora Samuel, Sheffield School of Architecture; Associate professor Tom Avermaete, TUDelft, and Associate professor Peter Hemmersam, AHO.