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 was a senior researcher in the international research projects Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture, The Printed and the Built. Architecture and Public Debate in Modern Europe (both funded by the Norwegian Research […]

Victor Plahte Tschudi

Scholar

Victor Plahte Tschudi is a professor in architectural history and theory 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) […]

Tim Ainsworth Anstey

Scholar

Tim Ainsworth Anstey studied architecture at the University of Bath in England, graduating with a PhD in architectural history in 2000. After some years in architectural pratice he moved to Sweden, where he became Head of Research at KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm. Since 2013 he has directed AHO’s PhD Programme in combination with teaching […]

Even Smith Wergeland

Scholar

  Even Smith Wergeland is an associate professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. He holds a MA in art history from the University of Bergen (2013) and a PhD from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (2013). Wergeland lectures and writes about a number of different topics, including the history of […]

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 Rode

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 […]

Maryia Rusak

PhD

Maryia Rusak is a PhD fellow researching the building activities of the Norwegian timber prefabrication company Moelven Brug. In the period between 1955-1973, Moelven built schools, housing developments, churches and sports halls across the country, significantly shaping the everyday landscape of the Norwegian welfare state. Through the lens of an industrial company, Rusak’s thesis explores […]

Paul-Antoine Lucas

Web responsible

Paul-Antoine Lucas is the web responsible for the OCCAS website and currently works as an architect in Oslo. He worked as a graphic designer and web responsible on the HERA-funded research project Printing the Past. Architecture, Print Culture, and Uses of the Past in Modern Europe (PriArc) with Mari Hvattum. Lucas previously collaborated with the Oslo School […]

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, […]