Architectonic Typologies is guest professor master studio, chair ‘Space and Technique’, concerned with exploring ideas about architectonic space and different techniques of making these ideas possible as real everyday architecture. Technique should be understood here in its double meaning, as tools for imagining and representing spatial ideas and as technical know-how to make them physically present as real architectonic qualities. It is a project oriented studio, where architecture is thought through designing it. In the studio, we are studying different architectonic typologies and themes, apartment houses, museums and galleries, schools, kindergartens, big and small offices, farms, infrastructures, landscapes and urban spaces, and we are working with restore projects – the structures of different scales and meaning that embody the essence of an architectonic space.  We understand the process of design as a research into the nature of architecture.

The studio is a collaborative studio, inviting the most interesting international architects, high level academicians and practitioners, to investigate and renew together with us the methods and representational tools for teaching and production of architecture.  http://www.romogteknikk.aho.no/

The project Architectonic Typologies will be dealing with creating buildings and spaces, starting with the study of the most elementary architectonic elements and typologies, like walls, floors, roofs, windows, courtyards, towers, columns, beams, concrete, timer, etc. 

Each student will develop his own theme on the base of his understanding of these elements, which will be the inspiration for further development of the project. All the parameters of the project, like the site, or no-site, the program and the scale will be chosen individually by each student. The choices will be discussed collectively in the studio.