Léa-Catherine Szacka
holds a PhD in History and theory of architecture from the Bartlett School of Architecture. Her thesis “Exhibiting the Postmodern: Three Narratives for a History of the 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale” deals with various themes such as the, presentation and representation of architecture, the post-1968 institutionalisation of architecture as well as the postmodern debate in Europe and America.
Léa-Catherine was trained as an architect in Montreal, Canada and Venice, Italy. She specializes in the history of architectural exhibitions and is part of the ‘Exhibition history’ research network at the Centre Pompidou. Recently she published various texts on the 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale as well as on the exhibition Roma Interrotta. Léa-Catherine is currently working on ‘Display & Debate: An Oral History of the 1976 1976 Europa/America Show at the Venice Biennale’, a research project financed by the Royal Institute of British Architecture. Alongside her research activities, Léa-Catherine is teaching assistant in history and theory of architecture at the ENSA Versailles.
Selected Work:
Léa-Catherine Szacka,‘Historicism versus Communication: The Big Debate at the 1980 Biennale’,Architectural Design, September 2011, p.98-105.
Léa-Catherine Szacka, ‘A Conversation with Vittorio Gregotti’, Log 20: Curating Architecture, Fall 2010, p.39-43.
Léa-Catherine Szacka, ‘The Architectural Public Sphere’, Multi: The journal of Diversity and Plurality in Design, Rochester Institute of Technology, Vol.2, no. 1, 2008.
Léa-Catherine Szacka, ‘The Presence of the Past – First International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale’, Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970 to 1990, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2011, p.132-135.
Léa-Catherine Szacka, ‘Showing Architecture Through Exhibitions: A Taxonomical Analysis applied to the case of the first Architecture Biennale (1980) in Grace-Lees Maffei (Ed.)Design Writing: Words and Objects, Berg Publisher, 2011, p.191-203.
Léa-Catherine Szacka, ‘The Architect as Performer? On the Interdisciplinarity nature of the Venice Biennale’, in Clarissa Ricci (Ed.), Starting From Venice, Et al. Edition, 2011, p.202-207.
Léa-Catherine Szacka, ‘1980 Venice Architecture Biennale: A Post-Modern Street for the Display of Architecture’, PhD Research Project, The Bartlett School of Architecture, 2009, p. 8-15.
Mattias Ekman
Mattias Ekman is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Form, Theory and History at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. His PhD. project, ”Edifice of Memory”, investigates the significance of the built environment for societal memory practice. The interdisciplinary study provides a critical reading of Maurice Halbwachs’s term spatial framework, a sub concept of the collective memory, by drawing on theories from memory studies in the humanities but also in the social and natural sciences. Ekman has presented work from his project at several international conferences and three book chapters will appear in print in 2011 and 2012.
Mattias Ekman has taught on undergraduate and diploma levels at AHO. He received his diploma in architecture from The Architectural Association (AA) in 2004 and previously studied theatre and aesthetics at Gothenburg University and Humboldt University. He practiced as an architect at Norwegian architecture offices before embarking on the PhD.
Lothar Diem
Lothar Diem is a PhD candidate in the research project Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture, in the Department of From, Theory and History at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. His research project studies the concepts of original and copy applied to enactment-based cultural heritage. This investigation involves discussions on displacement and display, related to copies of intangible cultural heritage. The disserations working title is ”Origin and displacement: enactment-based cultural heritage”.
Fall 2010, Diem was part time teacher at FTHs studio Re-store with professor Thordis Arrhenius and PhD-candidate Mattias Ekman. In 2011, he has been the coordinator for the postprofessional master courses in conservation and urbanism at AHO.
Diem holds a degree in architecture from AHO, while parts of his architectural education is from Technische Universität München. He also holds a postmaster degree in architectural heritage from AHO. Diem has been a practicing architect in Oslo since 2001.
Martin Braathen
Martin Braathen (M.Arch) is a PhD candidate in the History of Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art at NTNU, Trondheim. The title of his dissertation is From the Revolution of the Present to ‘The Presence of the Past’: Instrumentality and Autonomy in Norway 1970–1980. He is the author of Alt er arkitektur. Neoavantgarde og institusjonskritikk i Norge 1965–1970 (Everything is Architecture. Neo-Avant-Garde and Institutional Critique in Norway 1965–1970, Tapir Academic Press 2010) and contributes regularly to books, newspapers and architecture magazines in Norway and internationally. He has been the exhibitions director of Norsk Form/The Norwegian Centre for Architecture and Design, and the architecture curator of Projekt 0047 in Berlin. He received his architectural training from NTNU and Universität der Künste/Berlin, and curatorial training from the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York.
Natalie Hope O’Donnell
Natalie Hope O’Donnell (born 1979 in Norway) is a PhD candidate in the research project Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture. She studied Modern History and Politics at Jesus College, Oxford (2002) and History of Art at the University of Oslo (2009). She also holds a PGDL/LPC postgraduate degree in Law and graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Curating Contemporary Art in 2008. She conducted doctoral research on curatorial practices at the London Consortium under the supervision of Mark Cousins at the Architecture Association.
She has worked for the Norwegian National Touring Exhibitions, the DSV Network in Oslo, and the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. Curated projects include: Tris Vonna-Michellperformance (London, 2008); Of This Tale I Cannot Guarantee a Single Word exhibition, Royal College of Art, London, 2008); Chelpa Ferro performance (SPACE, London, 2007); On – Off Poltergeist exhibition (Mezkalito, Hollybush Gardens, London, 2007); An A – Z of Doubt exhibition (Serpentine, London 2007). She is co-curator of the forthcoming Pushwagner exhibition, which opens in the summer of 2012 at Milton Keynes Gallery. She has written catalogue essays and articles for Artslant, ICE, Artvehicle and e-flux journal. Her research at AHO concerns curatorial practices in relation to art and architecture, and approaches to exhibition design and audience engagement.
Tina DiCarlo
Tina di Carlo is a PhD Fellow in the research project Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture, in the Department of From, Theory and History at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. She is a Fellow in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London and in 2012 will be a Visiting Tutor in Critical Thinking at the Architectural Association, London.
From 2000-07 she was a curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. There she curated and assisted with numerous exhibitions including: The Changing of the Avant-Garde: Visionary Drawings from the Howard Gilman Collection (with Terence Riley), Tall Buildings (with Terence Riley and Guy Nordenson), The Highline and OMA in Beijing: China Central Television Headquarters, among others and was instrumental in building the collection of contemporary architecture. She is a contributing editor to LOG: Observations On Contemporary Architecture and the City and in 2010 was the consulting editor for LOG 20, the first compendium on curating architecture. In addition to publishing internationally she is the author of the forthcoming book Exhibitionism (Sternberg Press), a lexical study that proposes new forms of curating architecture congruent with contemporary critical spatial practices and for which she was awarded a Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts grant. In 2010 she founded ASAP, an archive of spatial aesthetics and praxis dedicated to collecting architecture as part of a broader political, social and aesthetic discourse.
Di Carlo holds a master’s degree in architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (where she completed her thesis on the ICA in Boston), and master’s degrees in philosophy and art history from the Courtauld Institute, London (where she focused on modern art and post-war French discourse). She has been a guest critic at Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, UCLA, the Architectural Association, London and a guest Professor at the Berlage Institute, The Netherlands where she led a research studio on nascent economies in northeast Brasil.
Research Interests: Exhibitions-exhibitionism, archives, collecting, critical thinking and spatial aesthetics, contemporary architecture
Victor Plahte Tschudi
Victor Plahte Tschudi is an art historian and post-doctoral fellow at the Norwegian Institute in Rome/University of Oslo. He teaches architectural history from antiquity to the present. Currently, Tschudi is writing a book on print culture and its effect on baroque and neo-classical concepts of architecture.
Tschudi received a MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and a Ph. D. (Dr. art.) in architectural history from the University of Oslo. In his post-doctoral work, The City Edited, Tschundi explores rhetorical uses of Rome in imagery and models from the Renaissance to the present. He is an associate in the research project, Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture (funded by the Norwegian Research Council from 2011-2014) and co-founder and member of the advisory board for the Nordic Network of Renaissance Studies (NNRS).
Selected work:
‘Ancient Rome in the age of copyright. The privilegio and printed reconstructions’, in T. K. Seim and M. Prusac (eds.), ACTA, (forthcoming 2012).
‘The return of the living dead. Antikke statuer i renessansens Roma’, Agora, 3:2010, Oslo: Aschehoug forlag.
‘Palatin som forbilde fra Ligorio til Linstow’, in M. Skoie and G. Vestreim (eds.), Antikken i ettertiden, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget 2009.
‘Tampering with Temples; Antiquity in the Catholic Reformation’, in R. T. Eriksen and M. Malmanger (eds.), Imitation, Representation and Printing in the Italian Renaissance, Pisa-Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore 2009
‘Serlio and Sabbioneta: A City Built in Prints’, in C. L. Guest (ed.), Rhetoric, Theatre and the Arts of Design, Oslo: Novus Press 2008.
‘The shape of space. An interpretation of the term ‘area’ in Alberti’s De Re aedificatoria’, in R. T. Eriksen and V. P. Tschudi (eds.), Ashes to Ashes. Art in Rome between Humanism and Maniera, Rome: Edizioni dell’Ateneo 2006.
Jorge Otero-Pailos
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 foundations. His art, architecture and writings have been published in international journals such as Art in America, Artforum, Architectural Record and Volume. Otero-Pailos rethinks preservation as a powerful countercultural practice that creates alternative futures for our world heritage. The Oslo School of Architecture welcomes Otero-Pailos as a guest professor in the research project, Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture (funded by the Norwegian Research Council from 2011-14).
Erik Fenstad Langdalen
Erik Fenstad 
is currently Professor at the Oslo School of Architecture, teaching first-year studios. In fall of 2010, Langdalen taught Rome+Museum, a master studio. He graduated from the Oslo School of Architecture in 1994 and continued at Columbia University in 1997, receiving a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design. Since 1999, he has practiced architecture at his own firm, LY Arkitekter. Langdalen acted as project architect in his firm’s collaboration with Steven Holl on the Knut Hamsun Center, completed in 2009.
Area of expertise: Museum, exhibition and housing.
Selected work:
Books:
Hamsun Holl Hamarøy, litterature, architecture, landscape. Lars Müller Publisher 2010.
“A Magic Tower”, in Langdalen, Vaa, Frang Høyen (eds.) Hamsun Holl Hamarøy, litterature, architecture, landscape. Lars Müller Publisher 2010.
“Under presssure”, in House Kollstrøm/Østberg, architect Knut Hjeltnes. As-Built, Pax 2010.
Architecture:
House, Ålesund, in progress.
Summer house, Hurum, in progress.
Multi-unit housing, Oslo, 2009.
Summer house, Sandefjord, 2009.
Astrup center, museum and visitor center, first prize in competition 2007, unbuilt.
Wallis Miller
Wallis Miller is the Charles P. Graves Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Kentucky. She is currently writing a book, Architecture on Display: Exhibitions, Museums and the Emergence of Modernism in Germany, on the formative practices of collection and exhibition in nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture. Miller received fellowships from Canadian Centre for Architecture, the American Academy in Berlin and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts. In 2008, Miller was a Visiting Scholar at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. She earned a Ph.D. in the History of Architecture at Princeton University and a M.Arch. from Columbia University. Wallis Miller is a guest professor in the research project, Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture (funded by the Norwegian Research Council from 2011-14).
Selected Work:
“Schinkel’s Museums: Collecting and displaying architecture in Berlin, 1844-1933,” in Museums and Biographies, ed. Kate Hill (London: Boydell and Brewer, 2011).
“Fitting in: Architecture in the Art Gallery,” in Robert Gutman, Architecture from the Outside In, (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009).
“Cultures of Display: Exhibiting Architecture in Berlin, 1880-1931,” in Tim Anstey, Katja Grillner and Rolf Hughes, eds., Architecture and Authorship (London: Black Dog Press, 2007), pp.98-107.
“Circling the Square,” in Andres Lepik, ed., O.M. Ungers. Kosmos der Architektur (Berlin: Hatje/Neue National-Galerie, 2006), pp.97-107.
“Neues Bauen and the Exhibition of Modern German Identity,” in Wolf Tegethoff and Jacek Purchla eds. Nation, Style, Modernity (Munich/Cracow: Zentral Institut für Kunstgeschichte/International Cultural Centre, 2006), pp.223-236.
“Mies and Exhibitions,” research essay in Mies in Berlin, Terence Riley and Barry Bergdoll, eds. (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pp.338-349. (German Edition: München: Prestel, 2001).
Vittoria Di Palma
Vittoria Di Palma is an Associate Professor at Columbia University’s Department of Art History and Archaeology. Di Palma specializes on eighteenth century architecture and landscape, focusing on the connection between landscape and epistemology. She wrote numerous articles on the subject and recently published Intimate Metropolis: Constructing Public and Private in the Modern City, co-edited with D. Periton and M. Lathouri. In spring of 2010, Di Palma was a guest professor with the research project, Routes, Roads and Landscapes: Aesthetic practices en routes 1750-2015.
Even Smith Wergeland
Even Smith Wergeland received his MA in History of Art from the University of Bergen in 2007. Upon graduation, he worked as an art mediator at the Rogland Museum of Fine Arts in Stavanger from 2007 to 2008. In the same period, he was employed at the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Bergen where he lectured on architectural theory, the historiography of modern architecture and visual rhetoric. In 2008 and 2009, Wegeland advised the Stavanger municipality’s department of city planning. Since February 2009, he has been employed as a Ph.D. researcher at the Institute of Form, Theory and History at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. The working title of his thesis is From Utopia to Reality – the Motorway as a Work of Art. His thesis, written within the framework of the multidisciplinary research project, Routes, Roads and Landscapes, deals with the aesheticization of motorways in post-war architectural theory. Wergeland is currently enrolled as a visiting Ph.D. student at the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Research interests: Historiography of modern architecture, architectural theory, modernism, infrastructural planning, utopian cityscapes, mobility, and sports architecture.
Selected work:
Articles and essays:
“Velkommen til maskinen”, Årbok for Norsk Vegmuseum, Fåberg: Statens vegvesen/Norsk vegmuseum.
“Fotball, motorvegar og popmusikk – ei soge om det moderne Leeds”, Josimar #8 2010.
“Fotball og kunst: frå Zidane til Koons”, Josimar #5, 2010.
With Pavlina Lucas, ”The Curious Case of Arne Garborgs Plaza”, Conditions 2/2010.
“Komplett kommersialisme? Ny norsk stadionarkitektur”, Josimar #1, 2010.
“Beijing-2008 – arkitektonisk posisjonering i olympiadens prolog”, Replikk no. 25, spring 2008.
Reviews:
“Tøyengata på nært hald”, bok review of Tone Huse’s Tøyengata, Morgenbladet, July 9th, 2010.
“Fortrenging av naturen”, review of the New Holmenkollen Ski Jump, Morgenbladet, March 5th 2010.
“Kva er ein god by?”, om Peter Butenschøn’s Byen. En bruksanvisning, Morgenbladet October 23th 2009.
“Olympiaden og imagebygginga”, review of the Beijing 2008 Opening ceremony, Ny Tid 29/2008.
Paper presentations and guest lectures:
“Frå utopi til realitet: urbaniseringsprosessar”, guest lecture at the University of Stavanger”, November 18th 2010.
“Bryne – ny og urban”, invited lecture at the new public library at Bryne, November 10th, 2010.
“Stadium Arcadium – the Future of Football Architecture”, Lecture at the Split Loyalties Symposium, Telemark University College, September 23rd 2010.
“From Utopia to Reality – the Motorway as a Work of Art”, Exhibition poster, UKTRC Summer School, international PhD symposium, UK Transport Research Centre, University of Leeds, Leeds, 7th-9th September, 2010.
“Change Through Four Lenses”, work shop paper at the UKTRC Summer School, international PhD symposium, UK Transport Research Centre, University of Leeds, Leeds, 7th September, 2010.
“Landskap: natur, kultur og estetikk”, invited lecture at Sotaseminaret, Sota Sæter/Skjåk kommune, 19th August, 2010.
“Landscapes of freedom or claustrophobia? The ‘Autopias’ of postwar America and Norway”, paper at Emerging Landscapes, international conference, University of Westminster, London, 27th June, 2010.
“Driving spaces as generators of a green city”, paper at Green Oslo, international conference, BI Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, 8th June, 2010.
“Vegen som byutviklingsstrategi”, guest lecture at elective course Urbaniseringsprosesser, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, 23rd February, 2010.
“The infrastructure of suburban Oslo”, guest lecture at elective course Norwegian Architecture, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, 13th October, 2009.
“Aerocabs and skycar cities – utopian landscapes of mobility”, paper presentation at the Routes, Roads and Landscapes conference at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, 25th of September, 2009.
“Arkitektur i etterkrigstida: Europa og Noreg”, guest lecture at the University of Stavanger, April 2009.
Janike Kampevold Larsen
Janike Kampevold Larsen is a Post Doctoral Fellow and part of the research project, Routes, Roads and Landscapes: Aesthetic practices en route 1750–2015.
Larsen holds a MA in Literature and a Ph.D. (Dr. Art) in Literature. She has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University’s Department of Art and Archaeology, University of Essex’s Department of Philosophy and University of California Berkeley’s Department of Comparative Literature.
Currently, Larsen is working on a book ,Post National Natures: The Spectacle of the Norwegian Tourist Routes. She has worked as literary critic, Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature and editor of both literary publications and the literary magazine, Vinduet. Larsen also coordinated AHO’s Sverre Fehn Symposium in 2007 and 2008.
Areas of expertise: Aesthetic, literary and visual theory, landscape theory.
Selected work:
Å være vann i vannet. Forestilling og virkelighet i Tor Ulvens forfatterskap, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag [Imagery and reality in Tor Ulven’s work.] 2009.
Editor w/ B. Brenna, B. Elvebakk, M. Hvattum, Routes, Roads and Landscapes, a collection of essays, Ashgate, 2011, forthcoming.
Guest editor of dossier in ’Scape Magazine: Landscape architecture and urbanism, no 1/2010, pp. 18-41, on behalf of the research project Routes, Roads and Landscapes, Aesthetic Practices en route, 1750 – 2015.
w/ S. Sæterbakken, Norsk litterær kanon, [The Norwegian Literary Canon] CappelenDamm, 2008.
Articles:
“Curating Views, The Norwegian Tourist Route Project”, forthcoming in Routes, Roads and Landscapes (London: Ashgate, 2011)
“Vegskjæringens sublimitet”, / [The Sublimity of the Road Cut] Norsk Vegmuseums Årbok, 2010.
“The view from the road”, in ’Scape Magazine: Landscape architecture and urbanism, no 1/2010, pp. 39-41.
“CLUI.org. Å beskrive og forstå jordoverflaten” [CLUI.org. To describe and understand the surface of the earth] in Vagant, nr. 3, 2010.
“Views from the Road”, catalogue essay for the exhibition Produced Landscapes at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Sept. 2009.
“The forms of The Tourist Roads”, contribution to the catalogue for the exhibit of The Norwegian Tourist Route Project, Detour, Norsk Form, 2006.
Mari Lending
Mari Lending is a Professor of Architectural Theory and History and the head of the Department of Form, Theory and History at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. She is a senior researcher in the research project, Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture (funded by Norwegian Research Council from 2011-14) and is currently writing a book, The Art of Collecting Architecture.
She holds a M. Litt (Mag. art) in Comparative Literature on Marcel Proust from the University of Oslo in 1997 and defended her Ph.D. dissertation on historiography at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design in 2005. From 2005 to 2009, Lending was a postdoctoral fellow on the research project, Modernism on Display. Lending has been a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and Columbia University.
Lending has written widely on literature and architecture as well as edited book series and various journals on cultural critique and modernist prose. She is the editor-in-chief of Nordic Journal of Architecture, co-editor for exhibitions for the European Architecture History Network’s Newsletterand sits on the editorial board of Arkitektur N and the book series As-Built. Her book, Omkring 1900: Kontinuiteter i norsk arkitekturtenkning (2007), critically rethinks concepts of historicism and modernism in 19th and 20th century Norwegian architectural discourse.
Selected work:
Omkring 1900. Kontinuiteter i norsk arkitekturtenkning, Oslo: Pax Forlag 2007.
”Prousts museum”, i Karin Gundersen og Mari Lending (red.), Kopi & original. Inversjoner i opprinnelsestenkningens historie, Oslo: Scandinavian Academic Press 2011
”Architecture at the limit. Peter Zumthor’s Witchburning Memorial in Vardø”, in Steilneset minnested, Oslo: Press forlag 2011
“Writing a Life from the Inside of a Drawing: Stendhal’s Vie de Henry Brulard”, Chora 6. Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture, Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press 2011
“Glassets feaktige prakt. M.J. Monrad om arkitekturens oppløsning”, Nytt norsk tidsskrift 1/2011
“Arkitekturmuseum. Mediert arkitektur på utstilling”, in Bjarne Rogan og Arne Bugge Eriksen (eds..),Samling og museum. Kapitler av museenes historie, praksis og ideologi, Oslo: Novus forlag 2010.
“Spøkelsesmuseer. Arkitektonisk gipsskulptur”, Agora 3/2010, Oslo: Aschehoug forlag.
“Museum on Display”, in Høyum, Langdalen, Vaa (eds.), Holl, Hamsun, Hamarøy, Baden, Sveits: Lars Müller Publishers 2010.
“Écorché vif. Installation à la Biennale de Venise de Jorge Otero-Pailos”, Geneve: Faces. Journal d’architecture 67/2010.
“Historisk Røntgen. Arkitekturfremstilling i W.G. Sebalds Austerlitz”, Vinduet 1/2010 Oslo: Gyldendal forlag 2010.
“Negotiating Absence. Bernard Tschumi’s new Acropolis Museum in Athens”, Journal on Architecture, vol 15, no. 5/2009.
“Landscape Versus Museum. J.C. Dahl and the Preservation of Norwegian Burial Mounds”, Future Anterior. Journal on Historic Preservation. History, Theory, & Criticism, vol.6 no 1/2009.
“Poetisk tale om arkitekturen”, Arkitektur N, 3/2009.
“Arkitekturhistorie som bygningshistorisk katalog”, (ed. Peter Butenschøn), Tiden og arkitekturen. Om å bygge i fire dimensjoner, Oslo: Akademisk publisering 2009.
“Revisiting the Exotic. Space Group and Norwegian Architectural Culture”, Untitled 2000-2008. Space Group/Norway. Monography. Damdi Architectural Publishers, South-Korea: Seoul 2008.
“Permanent og kontemporært. Tidlige variasjoner av en norsk arkitektursamling”, Nordisk museologi, 1-2/2008.
“Modernisme på utstilling”, Nytt norsk tidsskrift 3/2008.
“Politisert materialestetikk. Det norske ambassadekomplekster i Berlin som orkestrering av nasjonal forskjell”, Byggekunst 8/2006.
“Den norske iscenesettelsen av modernismen som historie”, Nordic Journal of Architectural Research, 1/2006.
Mari Hvattum
Mari Hvattum is a Professor of Architectural History and Theory at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, teaching modern architectural history and theory at all levels. From 2008, she has led the research project, Routes, Roads and Landscapes: Aesthetic practices en route, 1750-2015.
Hvattum received a diploma in architecture from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim in 1993, studied philosophy and aesthetics at the University of Bergen and a received a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1999. Hvattum taught at the Architectural Association, London; Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow; University of Edinburgh; University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and Central European University, Prague. She is published internationally on nineteenth and twentieth century architectural discourse and practice. Hvattum is the vice president of the European Architectural History Network (EAHN).
Hvattum is a member of the AHO board as well as the AHO research committee.
Area of expertise: Modern architectural history and theory, 1800 to the present.
Selected work:
Books:
Gottfried Semper and the Problem of Historicism. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press 2004.
Edited Books:
w/ G. Lauvland and K. O. Ellefsen, An Eye for Place: Christian Norberg-Schulz as Architect, Teacher and Historian. Oslo: Pax 2009.
w/ C. Hermansen, Tracing Modernity: Manifestations of the Modern in Architecture and the City. London: Routledge 2004.
Articles:
“She came down like a dream.’ Gordon Matta-Clarks Splitting”, Agora. Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon 3/2010.
“Lost in Place: Jarmund/Vigsnæs Architects”, World Architecture no 11/2010, vol 245.
“Landscapes en route”, ’Scape Magazine: Landscape architecture and urbanism, 1/2010.
“Stedets tyranni”, Arkitekten (Denmark) 2/2010.
“En Medkjæmper for den gode Sag”, Heinrich Ernst Schirmer og Intelligencens arkitektur”, Kunst og Kultur 1/2010.
“The problem of Aesthetics”, in Made in Norway. (ed. Ingerid Helsing-Almaas), Basel: Birkhäuser 2010.
“Modified modernism: the relational architecture of the low-rise high-density movement” in Nortopia: Nordic modern architecture and postwar Germany. (eds. C. Spliid-Høgbro and A. Wischmann) Berlin: Jovis Verlag.
“Genius Historiae: Christian Norberg-Schulz and the historiography of modern architecture” in: Lauvland, Ellefsen, Hvattum (eds.) An Eye for Place: Christian Norberg-Schulz as Architect, Teacher and Historian. Oslo: Pax 2009.
“En reise i fremmed land: Verneteoretiske posisjoner i samtidsarkitekturen” i Tid i arkitektur: om å bygge i fire dimensjoner. P. Butenschøn (ed.) Oslo: Akademisk Publisering 2009.
“The Pleasure of Surprise” In: Positions. On Modern Architecture and Urbanism Histories and Theories, University of Minnesota Press / NaI, 1/2008.
“Stilstrid og tidsuttrykk: noen temaer fra historismens arkitekturtenkning” in: Kunst og Kultur 3/2008.
“Veiled Works and Blurred Contexts”, Journal of Architecture vol. 13, 2/2008.
“Unfolding from within: Modern Architecture and the Dream of Organic Totality”, Journal of Architecture vol. 11, 4/2006.
“Origins Redefined: a Tale of Pigs and Primitive Huts”, in Primitive: Original Matters in Architecture(eds. F. Samuels, J. Odgers, A. Kerr) London: Routledge 2006.
“Museet som Erfindungsmethode” In: Agora. Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon 3/2006.
“Historisme og Modernisme i moderne arkitekturhistorieskriving”, Nordic Journal of Architectural Research 1/2006.
Thordis Arrhenius
Thordis Arrhenius is an architect and Professor of Architectural History and Conservation at the Institute of Form, Theory and History at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. She teaches a masters design studio, Re-Store, and a post-professional masters in conservation and urbanism. She is a founding member of the Oslo Centre for Critical Architectural Studies (OCCAS) and leader of a four-year international research project, Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture (funded by Norwegian Research Council from 2011-14). Her research interests lie within the field of architectural preservation theory with a specific focus on architectural exhibition. Arrhenius is published in magazines such as Journal of Architecture, Agora, AA-files, Future Anterior and the Nordic Journal of Architectural Research. She is an associate editor of Nordisk Museologi.
Selected work:
The Fragile Monument: On Concervation and Modernity, Black Dog Publishing (forthcoming 2012).
“The Vernacular On Display”, in Swedish Modernism, Architecture, Consumption and the Welfare State, Black Dog Publishing 2010.
Review: A New Nature – 9 Architectural Conditions Between Liquid and Solid by Anders Abraham, (Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture Publishers 2009) Danish Arkitekten, nr 6-2010.
Review: Modern Swedish Design, Founding Text, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Journal of Architecture, Riba/Routledge vol.15 no 2 April 2010.
Re-Store catalogue 2010, introduction and editor, FTH, AHO, 2010.
“The ‘as found’ as a pedagogic and critical device”, As Found. World i Denmark , Copenhagen 2010.06.19.
The Expanded Monument, KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm 2010.03.10.
Lecture and introduction, Architecture and its Past, Stocktaking, The Museum of Architecture, Stockholm 2010.09.09.
Swedish Modernism: Architecture, Consumption and the Welfare State, Modern Museum/Architectural Museum.
Symposium with Helena Mattsson, Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Thordis Arrhenius, Daniel Birnbaum and Kim West, Stockholm 2010.10.02.
Andres Lepik
Andres Lepik studied art history and literature at the Universities Augsburg and Munich. He graduated 1990 with Ph.D. at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome. From 1994 to 2007 he worked as Curator and head of Architecture collection at Neue Nationalgalerie and State Museums Berlin, from 2007 to 2011 he was Curator at the Architecture and Design Department in The Museum of Modern Art, New York, where he curated the exhibition „Small Scale, Big Change. New Archietctures of Social Engagement“. Andres Lepik is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on architecture in 20th and 21st Century.
Executive Committee
- Rector AHO, Professor Karl Otto Ellefsen
- Director of AHO PhD program, Professor Margrethe Dobloug
- Head of Department of Institute of Form, Theory and History , Professor Mari Lending
- Project leader “Place and Displacment:Exhibiting Architecture”, Professor Thordis Arrhenius
Advisory Board
- Barry Bergdoll, MoMA/Columbia University, New York City
- Iain Boyd-Whyte, University of Edinburgh
- Beatriz Colomina, University of Princeton
- 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
- Carsten Thau, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
- Panayotis Tournikiotis, National Technical University of Athens