History and Transformation
The staff teaches at all levels, from foundation courses and master studios to continuing education and the PhD program. The History & Transformation unit comprises the school’s architectural historians and architects working with transformation and preservation, as well as architectural design with history as a source.
At the foundation level, we are responsible for the examen philosophicum and the courses Writing Exercises (GK1), Architectural History 1 & 2 (GK2/3), Norwegian Architectural History (GK4) and The History of Architectural Theories (GK6).
OCCAS (The Oslo Centre for Critical Architectural Studies, http://occas.aho.no) is our research center, which since its founding in 2009 has led a number of international, externally financed research projects, and many of our master studios and most of our PhD candidates are involved in our ongoing research projects.
We offer five different studio courses at the master level divided between the autumn and spring semesters: Architecture and the Archive (OCCAS), Moving Monuments (OCCAS), Restore, Transformation in Practice, and Resource.
In addition, we run a series of focused seminars that address a variety of sources and questions, but with a consistent style and way of working: The Art of Collecting Architecture (OCCAS), OCCAS seminars, Contemporary Theories of Preservation and Norwegian Architecture.
Our teaching is research-based, and our studios and seminars have a strong research component. Many of our MA courses result in exhibitions and book publications, and we are currently in the process of building up a global building and materials database on the Sanity digital platform. We maintain an extensive publication and dissemination activity nationally and internationally, in the form of books, articles, lectures, exhibitions and media contributions.
History & Transformation leads AHO's doctoral program, AHO's executive master in architectural preservation, and NORDMAK (Nordic master in architectural heritage).
Disciplinary group leader: Mari Lending
At the foundation level, we are responsible for the examen philosophicum and the courses Writing Exercises (GK1), Architectural History 1 & 2 (GK2/3), Norwegian Architectural History (GK4) and The History of Architectural Theories (GK6).
OCCAS (The Oslo Centre for Critical Architectural Studies, http://occas.aho.no) is our research center, which since its founding in 2009 has led a number of international, externally financed research projects, and many of our master studios and most of our PhD candidates are involved in our ongoing research projects.
We offer five different studio courses at the master level divided between the autumn and spring semesters: Architecture and the Archive (OCCAS), Moving Monuments (OCCAS), Restore, Transformation in Practice, and Resource.
In addition, we run a series of focused seminars that address a variety of sources and questions, but with a consistent style and way of working: The Art of Collecting Architecture (OCCAS), OCCAS seminars, Contemporary Theories of Preservation and Norwegian Architecture.
Our teaching is research-based, and our studios and seminars have a strong research component. Many of our MA courses result in exhibitions and book publications, and we are currently in the process of building up a global building and materials database on the Sanity digital platform. We maintain an extensive publication and dissemination activity nationally and internationally, in the form of books, articles, lectures, exhibitions and media contributions.
History & Transformation leads AHO's doctoral program, AHO's executive master in architectural preservation, and NORDMAK (Nordic master in architectural heritage).
Disciplinary group leader: Mari Lending