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80 312 OCCAS: The Art of Collecting Architecture
Full course name in Norwegian Bokmål:
OCCAS: The Art of Collecting Architecture
Credits:
6
Course code:
80 312
Level of study:
Master
Teaching semester:
2017 Autumn
Assessment semester:
2017 Autumn
Language of instruction:
Norwegian / English
Year:
2017
Maximum number of students:
10
Person in charge
Mari Lending
Course content
An old dairy at Blaker north of Oslo is the home of the artist Guttorm Guttormsgaard’s collection of art, crafts, books as well as thinkable and unthinkable miscellanea. Guttormsgaard’s archive has over the last decade been activated in a comprehensive series of exhibitions and an elegant website, itself an archive of sorts. Categories such as vernacular antiquities, mountain passes, photography/film, toys, maps, posters, postcards, Russia, textiles, typography/calligraphy hints at the scope of this cornucopia.
Guttormsgaard’s archive contains amounts of Norwegian and international architecture publications: Books, journals, magazines, leaflets, etc. This material spans from rare books and full sets of exquisite journals, to curiosities and ephemera from across the world, as well as printing presses, xylographical blocks and other print technologies. As part of OCCAS’ international research project Printing the Past. Architecture, Print Culture, and Uses of the Past in Modern Europe (PriArc) a small group of MA and PhD students are invited to explore and curate the architecture collection at Blaker in the Fall 2017.
Learning outcome
The students will develop and present curatorial concepts for the exhibition, and mount and open it in November. The group will produce a little catalogue describing the collection and the exhibition. Preparing the catalogue will provide training in theoretical and historical thinking and academic essay writing.
Working and learning activities
The seminar is practical in scope, and we will spend a lot of time at Blaker working hands-on with the architecture collection, and partly help registering it on the website. In the form of seminars in school the students will be introduced to architectural publications since the invention of print, by lectures and readings, focusing on texts, images, printing, and circulation of architecture, on paper
The Art of Collecting Architecture welcomes energetic students that can work individually and as a team, and who enjoys dealing with an intriguing corpus of architectural text and images, exhibition making and essay writing.
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| Other assessment method, define in comment field | Individual | Pass / fail | Participation, essay writing and exhibition project. |
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