Irene Alma Lønne new rector at AHO
11. March, 2022
The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) has the pleasure to announce that AHO's board on Wednesday 9 March decided to employ Irene Alma Lønne as the new rector. Lønne begins the tenure 1 August 2022.
Lønne presently holds the position of Business and Innovation Director at the Royal Academy - Architecture, Design and Conservation in Copenhagen. She has a degree in architecture from the Aarhus School of Architecture and a PhD in strategic design from the Royal Academy, in close collaboration with Copenhagen Business School. She has worked as a practicing designer and architect over long periods of time alongside two postdoctoral periods. Lønne has taught and critiqued in both architecture and design. She has been Head of department at the Royal Academy and Head of research at the Design School Kolding.
– We are delighted to welcome Irene Alma Lønne to AHO. The School of Architecture and Design in Oslo is an ambitious and research and educational institution. Lønne has a unique and strong interdisciplinary background in design and architecture, says AHO's Head of the Board Lisa Cooper.
She is a very experienced and direct leader, and her background and solid competence makes her the right person to lead the organization forward. Her competencies will be valuable in further work with students' welfare and the strategic position AHO has set out in Agenda 2025.– AHO is a central and important player in the educational and research landscape within design, landscape architecture and architecture in Scandinavia, Irene Lønne says.
– My professional background is at the crossroads between design and architecture and leadership experiences. Design and architecture have strategic and important roles in the sustainable transformation challenges the UN's world goals put to the fore.
– I am interested in promoting the opportunities and challenges in interdisciplinary, collaboration and development between the subjects internally as well as externally
