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Mari Hvattum

Scholar

Mari Hvattum is an architect and an architectural historian; professor of architectural history and theory at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, and a founding member of OCCAS. She studied architecture at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim; philosophy and aesthetics at the University of Bergen, and holds an M.Phil. and a PhD […]

Mari Lending

Scholar

Mari Lending is a professor in architectural theory and history, and a founding member of OCCAS (the Oslo Centre for Critical Architectural Studies). She is the president of EAHN (European Architectural History Network), and directs the NFR-funded, international research project Provenance Projected: Architecture past and future in the era of circularity. She was a senior […]

Victor Plahte Tschudi

Scholar

Victor Plahte Tschudi is a professor in architectural history at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. He teaches and writes on architecture from antiquity to the present with a special interest in the mediation and transformation of buildings in print. Tschudi is the author of Baroque Antiquity: Archaelogical Imagination in Early Modern Europe (2017) and Piranesi […]

Tim Ainsworth Anstey

Scholar

Professor Tim Anstey has directed AHO’s PhD Programme since 2013, in combination with teaching and research activities within OCCAS.   At AHO he lead the research project Things that Move (Swedish Research Council, 2013–2016) and has contributed to the OCCAS projects The Printed and the Built (Norwegian Research Council FRPRO 2014–2017) and PRIARC Printing the Past. Architecture, print culture […]

Even Smith Wergeland

Scholar

Even Smith Wergeland is an associate professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, where he teaches architectural history, planning history and architectural heritage. He is the director of AHO’s executive master’s programme in architectural preservation, and from 2022, the leader of OCCAS. Wergeland’s research spans across a number of different themes, including sports […]

Wallis Miller

Spring 2013 & Spring 2016

Wallis Miller specializes in 19th and 20th Century German and European architecture. Her writing focuses on architecture exhibitions and museums, including “Schinkel’s Museums” in a recent collection of essays about Museums and Biographies and “Mies and Exhibitions,” for the exhibition “Mies in Berlin” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her main project, Architecture […]

Jorge Otero-Pailos

2011-2014

Jorge Otero-Pailos is a New York based architect, artist and theorist specializing in experimental forms of preservation. Otero-Palios teaches at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture. He is the founder and editor of the journal, Future Anterior. His works are exhibited in international shows such as the Venice Art Biennale and are collected by major museums and […]

Vittoria Di Palma

Spring 2010

Associate Professor Vittoria di Palma from University of Southern California was a visiting scholar to the research project Routes, Roads, and Landscapes in the spring of 2010. A specialist in modern architectural and landscape history, Di Palma has written e.g. Wasteland, A History (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), a much-acclaimed study of early […]

Richard Wittman

Spring 2016

Associate Professor Richard Wittman from University of California, Santa Barbara, was a visiting scholar to The Printed & Built project in the spring of 2016. Wittman is author of the pioneering study Architecture, Print Culture, and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth Century France (2007) and currently completing a cultural history of the century-long reconstruction of the […]

Anne Hultzsch

2014-2018

Anne Hultzsch is an architect and an architectural historian, currently leading the ERC-funded research group “Women Writing Architecture” at the ETH in Zurich. Anne was a postdoc in the OCCAS project The Printed and the Built in 2014-2018, studying the role of architecture in the British and German illustrated press in the 19thcentury. She co-edited […]

Desmond-Bryan Kraege

Spring 2021

Desmond-Bryan Kraege is a Visiting Scholar at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. His research project concerns eighteenth-century Europe’s shaping of visions of world architecture. He is also interested in interactions between architecture and the pictorial arts, and in 2019 defended his PhD thesis Picturing Architecture and Time: History and Imagination in Hubert Robert’s […]

Léa-Catherine Szacka

2013-2015

Léa-Catherine Szacka is an Associate Professor in Architectural History and Theory at the Institute of Form, Theory and History, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Szacka completed the PhD programme in History and Theory from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Her thesis “Exhibiting the Postmodern: Three Narratives for a History of the […]

Eirik Arff Gulseth Bøhn

PhD

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

PhD

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 […]

Joe Crowdy

PhD

Joe Crowdy is a PhD fellow researching the built environment of the Fens – an area of marshland in the east of England – as it became the object of intense speculative development in the seventeenth century. His research responds to the words and practices of those who opposed this newly imposed architecture of drainage […]

Tom Davies

PhD

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

PhD

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 […]

Mara Trübenbach

PhD

Mara Trübenbach graduated from the Bauhaus-University Weimar with an MSc in Architecture in 2018, having studied previously at the Peter Behrens School of Arts in Dusseldorf and at the Technical University Vienna. In 2019 she was selected to join the EU Horizon 2020 international network TACK / Communities of Tacit Knowledge: Architecture and its Ways of […]

Nick Walkley

PhD

Nick Walkley is a PhD fellow researching nostalgic ornament in the digital age. His study, supervised by Professor Mari Lending, will take the portal of Urnes Stave Church as starting point for the investigation of decorative architectural components and their projection into a digital future. This research will form part of the OCCAS project Provenance Projected: Architecture […]

Jørgen Johan Tandberg

PhD

Jørgen Johan Tandberg is an architect and a PhD fellow researching the architectural heritage of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) at Marienlyst in Oslo; particularly the work of the architect Nils Holter, and later Holter & Bauck. The thesis is part of the research project Provenance Projected: Architecture Past and Future in the Era of Circularity. His advisor […]

Alena Rieger

PhD

Alena Rieger is a PhD fellow studying material histories and provenance in 20th century architecture. Her research examines paradigms of architectural value and considers the potential of material histories in rethinking motives and methods for preservation. The research is supervised by Mari Lending and part of the OCCAS project Provenance Projected: Architecture Past and Future […]

Jarle Tollefsrud

PhD

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 […]

Dr. Maryia Rusak

Maryia Rusak defended her PhD dissertation Factory Made. The Everyday Architecture of Moelven Brug, 1955–1973 on August 22, 2022. Advisor: Mari Hvattum. Adjudication Committee: Professor Katie Lloyd Thomas, Newcastle University; Associate professor Timothy Hyde, MIT, and professor Bjørn Sandaker, AHO.  You can download the dissertation here: https://aho.brage.unit.no/aho-xmlui/handle/11250/3010759

Dr. Mathilde S. Dahl

Mathilde Simonsen Dahl defended her PhD dissertation Bislettbekken og byens fysiognomi. Kristianiaprovisorier omkring 1900 on September 11, 2020. Main advisor: Mari Lending, AHO; second advisor Wallis Miller, University of Kentucky. Adjudication Committee: Henriette Steiner, University of Copenhagen; Narve Fulsås, University of Tromsø; Johnny Aspen, AHO. The dissertation can be downloaded from here: dissertation link  

Dr. Iver Tangen Stensrud

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 […]

Dr. Christian Parreno

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.

Dr. Tina Di Carlo

Tina Di Carlo defended her dissertation The Construction of an Exhibition within Architecture Culture: Deconstructivist Architecture, The Museum of Modern Art, 1988 on February 26, 2016. Advisor: Professor Mari Lending, co-advisor: Professor Barry Bergdoll, Columbia University, NYC. Adjudication committee: Professor Philip Ursprung, ETH, Zürich; Associate professor Patricia Morton, University of California, Riverside, and Dr. Thomas McQuillan, Head […]

Dr. Natalie Hope O’Donnell

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, […]

Dr. Mark Robert Mansfield

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 […]

Dr. Hans-Henrik Egede-Nissen

Hans-Henrik Egede-Nissen defended his PhD dissertation Autensitetens relevans: På sporet av et endret fokus for kulturminnevernet on November 14, 2014. Advisor: Mari Hvattum. Adjudication committee: Docent, PhD Victor Edman, Arkitekturskolan, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm; Lektor, Dr. Phil. Maria Fabricius Hansen, Institut for Kunst og Kulturvidenskab, Københavns Universitet, and Professor Bjørn Normann Sandaker, AHO. The dissertation […]

Dr. Mattias Ekman

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 […]

Dr. Even Smith Wergeland

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.

Dr. Wenche Volle

Wenche Volle defended her PhD dissertation Munchs rom on November 9, 2012. Advisor: Mari Hvattum, AHO. Adjudication committee: Professor Carsten Thau, Royal Academy of Art, Copenhagen, Dr. art. Frank Høifødt, FrankArt, Oslo, and professor Thordis Arrhenius, AHO.

Dr. Lisbet Harboe

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.

Solveig Tjetland

Web responsible

Solveig Tjetland is the web responsible for the OCCAS website and currently pursuing her master’s degree in architecture at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design

Advisory Board

Barry Bergdoll, New York / Columbia University Iain Boyd-Whyte, University of Edinburgh Beatriz Colomina, Princeton University Caroline van Eck, University of Leiden Adrian Forty, University College, London Charlotte Klonk, Humboldt University, Berlin David Leatherbarrow, University of Pennsylvania Christine Macy, Dalhousie University, Halifax Johan Mårtelius, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Yale University Panayotis Tournikiotis, […]

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