We are pleased to invite you to the opening of the anniversary exhibition ‘Professor Sverre Fehn’ on October 1, 2024, at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO).

This year it is 100 years since Sverre Fehn was born in Kongsberg, on 14 August 1924. He was, and still is, Norway's most famous architect, nationally and internationally. The Oslo School of Architecture and Design celebrates its 100th anniversary with a series of events in collaboration with the National Museum and the journal Arkitektur. 

On Tuesday 1 October at 16:00, the anniversary exhibition "Professor Sverre Fehn" opens at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO). The exhibition sheds light on Fehn's work as rector and teacher at AHO through a wealth of new archival material, curated by assistant professor Nicholas Coates at AHO.

Rector Irene Alma Lønne and University Lecturer Nicholas Coates at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design will give presentations at the opening.

About the exhibition: 

Sverre Fehn Fehn was a legendary teacher and lecturer, at home and abroad, and a substantial part of his prolific career took place from the studios, auditorium, board room and corridors of the school, among students and colleagues. When asked in an interview in 1995, in the last year of his 24-year tenure as a professor at AHO, what was most important aspect of the school to maintain, he replied: “International contact”.

The exhibition “Professor Sverre Fehn” brings out key documents, sketches, correspondence, and other artifacts that deepen our understanding of his well-known works and supplement the established narratives that have been documented and disseminated earlier. Professor Sverre Fehnpresents a lesser-known side of Fehn’s work, outlining the national, international and institutional horizon of his production, as a teacher and lecturer. 

The exhibition builds upon findings from the spring 2024 seminar Authoring Architecture: Fehn 100 and has been curated by Nicholas Coates with the assistance of Charlotte Baumgartner, Eskil Buskov Selmer, Tara Eliassen Kongsvik, and Valieriia Loboda.
Utstilling The exhibition is open from 1 October 2024 to 6 December 2024.

About Sverre Fehn:

Sverre Fehn (1924–2009) was educated as an architect from Statens Arkitektkskole from 1946–1949 and began teaching at the school in the 1960s. In 1971, Fehn was appointed professor at Arkitekthøyskolen i Oslo and served as its rector from 1986–1989. In conjunction with the centennial of his birth and the 2024 Fehn symposium at Domkirkeodden, Fehn Among Others, the exhibition Professor Sverre Fehn explores his body of work through the lens of his tenure at The Oslo School of Architectire and design (AHO).

AHO thanks Nasjonalmuseet and NRK for granting access to their archives and providing material for this exhibition.