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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 defended her PhD dissertation “Material Dramaturgy: Tracing Trails of Dust in the Architectural Design Process” on March 19, 2023. Advisor: Tim Anstey, co-advisor: Jessica Hemming, University of Gothenburg. Adjudication committee: Judith Clark, London College of Fashion; Andrew Filmer, University of Aberystwyth; Josina Vink, AHO. You can download the dissertation here: https://aho.brage.unit.no/aho-xmlui/handle/11250/3120720 Mara Trübenbach graduated from the […]

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.

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