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.