2017 Høst

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80 311 Drawn to Architecture

Full course name in Norwegian Bokmål:

Drawn to Architecture

Credits:

Course code:

80 311

Teaching semester:

2017 Autumn

Assessment semester:

2017 Autumn

Language of instruction:

Norwegian / English

Year:

2017

Maximum number of students:

Person in charge

Ingrid Lønningdal

Required prerequisite knowledge

Passed foundation level courses (bachelor) and basic drawing skills. Only open for Architecture students.

Course content

This is a course in free hand drawing. The students will get short assignments and develop their own, individual work to be presented and exhibited at the end of the course.

The individual work will use an existing building as a starting point, and is initiated with drawn analyses and visualizations of the chosen building. This serves as a springboard to discussing visualisation of architecture, and especially different levels of abstraction. In renderings, and particularly in different architecture competitions, there is a tendency to present buildings through hyper realistic and glossy images. What relevant strategies in analogue drawing techniques and which tools can be used to include or reflect upon materiality, colour and texture? The initial analytic work is followed by an explorative approach to drawing, where we investigate how different concepts from the analysis can be developed into more abstract, drawn compositions. In these drawings materiality, texture and colour are emphasised, as well as the importance of finding interesting connections between the chosen drawing tool/-method and concept.

The teacher is a visual artist, and it will be a goal to highlight different strategies and approaches to visualisation of surroundings/buildings in contemporary art, and to discuss if and how this can be transferred to the study of architecture.

Learning outcome

On completing the class, the students will have:
- developed their free hand drawing skills
- developed their language in describing and discussing their own and others’ works/processes

- developed their understanding for the connection between drawing method/-tool and conceptual content
- improved their knowledge about materiality/texture/colour in analogue drawing techniques, which will inform subsequent work in digital techniques

- improved their knowledge about architecture representation

Working and learning activities

The students will work closely with each other and the teacher, and the participants are therefore expected to set aside all of Tuesday. A minimum of 80% attendance is required to pass the course. In addition to practical work with free hand drawing the students will present ideas, ideals and work processes to each other. We will also visit art exhibitions and do studio visits.

Curriculum

Mandatory coursework	Courseworks required	Presence required	Comment
Exercise	80 %	Not required	80 % of the assignments must be handed in before the last main assignment. Failure to do so will lead to failing the course.

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Project assignment	Individual	Pass / fail	To pass the course 80 % of the assignments must be handed in before the project assignment (the main assignment). In addition the project assignment must be assessed as academic satisfactory.

Workload activity	Comment
Attendance	It is expected that the students are present every Tuesday and reserve the whole day for the course.

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40 305 Information-based Design

Full course name in Norwegian Bokmål:

Information-based Design

Credits:

Course code:

40 305

Level of study:

Master

Teaching semester:

2017 Autumn

Assessment semester:

2017 Autumn

Language of instruction:

English

Year:

2017

Maximum number of students:

Person in charge

Michael Ulrich Hensel

Søren S. Sørensen

Required prerequisite knowledge

Prerequisites: Completed Bachelor studies, Basic Knowledge in Rhino.

Recommended: Working skills in computational modelling and visualization.

[The course is only available for students in the Embedded Architectures and New Environments Studio courses of the RCAT | ACDL group.]

Course content

The elective course will introduce approaches, concepts and skills related to information-based design. This course includes lectures and seminars focusing on introducing the practice-oriented approach pursued by the RCAT | ACDL group in conjunction with leading practices [Snøhetta, Kieran Timberlake], as well as an intense skill building boot-camp that focuses on data-collection and utilization in computational design.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:
At the end of the course the student will have gained knowledge in a specific practice-oriented approach to information-based design.
Skills:
The student will have gained skills in data-collection and utilization in computational design with specific focus on the Rhino and Grasshopper environment.
General competence:
After successful completion of the course students are expected to have gained good working knowledge in information-based design and the ability to utilize this knowledge in a design project.

Working and learning activities

1. Lectures on selected topics regarding information-based design.
2. Tutorials on an individual and group basis concerning skill-building in data-collection and utilization in computational design.

Note: All instructions are based on active participation by the students and 90 % attendance.

Delivery: Portfolio of work process including visualization of collected data and utilization of the data in the design of the studio project.

Mandatory coursework	Courseworks required	Presence required	Comment
Presence required		Required	90% attendance at lectures, workshops, seminars and tutorials is required.

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)	Individual	Pass / fail	Delivery: Portfolio of work process including visualization of collected data and utilization of the data in the design of the studio project.

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2017 Høst

40 309 Computational Modelling in Rhino and Grasshopper

Full course name in Norwegian Bokmål:

Computational Modelling in Rhino and Grasshopper

Credits:

Course code:

40 309

Level of study:

Master

Teaching semester:

2017 Autumn

Assessment semester:

2017 Autumn

Language of instruction:

English

Year:

2017

Maximum number of students:

Person in charge

Michael Ulrich Hensel

Søren S. Sørensen

Required prerequisite knowledge

Prerequisites: Completed Bachelor studies, Basic Knowledge in Rhino.

Course content

The elective course will introduce computational modelling in Rhino and Grasshopper together with some analytical functions in Grasshopper. The associative modelling component introduces beginners to associative design and those that already know Grasshopper to a series of generative tools within the software.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:
At the end of the course the student will have gained knowledge in computational modelling in Rhino and associative modelling in Grasshopper, as well as some analytical tools in the Grasshopper environment.
Skills:
The student will have gained skills in computational modelling in Rhino and Grasshopper.
General competence:
After successful completion of the course students are expected to have gained good working knowledge in Rhino and Grasshopper and the ability to utilize these skills in a design project.

Working and learning activities

1. Lectures on selected topics regarding computational modelling.
2. Tutorials on an individual and group basis concerning skill-building

Note: All instructions are based on active participation by the students and 90 % attendance.

Delivery: Rhino / Grasshopper model, log of modelling process (pdf) and description of the completed model.

Mandatory coursework	Courseworks required	Presence required	Comment
Presence required		Required	90% attendance at lectures, workshops, seminars and tutorials is required.

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)	Individual	Pass / fail	Delivery: Rhino / Grasshopper model, log of modelling process (pdf) and description of the completed model.

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65 301 The Global North and The High North

Full course name in Norwegian Bokmål:

The Global North and The High North

Credits:

Course code:

65 301

Level of study:

Master

Teaching semester:

2017 Autumn

Assessment semester:

2017 Autumn

Language of instruction:

English

Year:

2017

Person in charge

Kjerstin Uhre

Required prerequisite knowledge

Admission to Master of Landscape Architecture program or master's level Architecture.

Course content

Seen from the world both Oslo and Tromsø is part of the Global North, seen from Oslo, Tromsø is part of the High North, moreover it is the Capital of the Arctic. The Global North and The High North takes as a point of departure contested landscapes in North Scandinavia to critically discuss contemporary landscape theory, cartography, and the understanding of place.

The objective of the course is twofold; first, it aims at giving the students a positive reading- and writing experience and an opportunity to develop their ideas textually. Second, it aims to provide an advanced introduction for students to Scandinavia's northernmost landscapes mediated by authors and lecturers with diverse northern and indigenous perspectives. Themes may range from the student’s personal encounters with North Norway, via reindeer pastoralism and competing outfield industries, to the geopolitical, ecologic, urban, and climatic significance of Artic territories.

The course will present and discuss theory that provides models to understand and interpret different perspectives on past, present and prospected futures of subarctic sea- and landscapes. Designers, architects, and landscape architects often incorporate expert knowledge from other disciplinary fields in their projects while moving seamlessly between observing, thinking, drawing, modeling, reading and writing. Focusing on reading, citing, and writing, this course critically discusses methods of place- and landscape analysis for landscape architects.

Learning outcome

The course gives situated knowledge and general overview of recent discourses of Arctic landscapes, indigenous issues, northern social, climatic, and political contexts. The students will acquire knowledge of the politics of visual representation in the use of maps, photos, and diagrams. After the course the students will have a basic understanding of various literary genres in academic writing, and an advanced theoretic base for ‘reading’ and understanding the interconnectedness between place and landscapes in general –and in particular– northern landscapes.

Students will learn how to search for and find relevant literature, and train the ability to develop personal strategies to keep updated and informed as discourses and political, economic, climatic, and cultural conditions change. They will be able to distinguish between qualitative and quantitative research information, to critically analyze an academic text, and develop skills in experimentally and exploratory combining knowledge from different sources in their own academic and creative writing.

The students will develop competence in academic writing and peer reviewing, in recognizing and formulating research questions, and to communicate their ideas effectively through texts.

Working and learning activities

The first part of the course is organized as reading and writing group with lectures and/or conversations about the literature once a week. A process with individual assignments will be followed up with group discussions and individual supervision. The students are expected to participate in the discussions, and give short presentations of their texts at different stages of the writing process. At mid-term there are a full writing-week followed by an open seminar where the students present both their theoretical and graphically illustrated papers and a peer-review of one of their colleagues’ paper. By the end of the course, the students have time to rework their papers for print and final evaluation.

Curriculum

Full curriculum of 15-20 texts will be made available at semester start. It will be centered on the seven texts listed here. I recommend to prepare for the course by getting orientated about Arctic issues, and to pay attention to how themes such as indigenous peoples rights to land- and seascapes, biodiversity, consequences of increased human activity, tourism, migration, resource extraction, new infrastructures, and consequences of climate change (changing weather-patterns with related geo-hazards and changing ecologies) are discussed in public media and open source publications. The Arctic Review on Law and Politics https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/index is a good place to start.

Cattoor, Bieke and Perkins, Chris. “Re-cartographies of Landscape: New Narratives in Architectural Atlases.” The Cartographic Journal Vol. 51 No. 2, The British Cartographic Society 2014, 166–178.

Corner, James. “The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention.” In Mappings, ed. Denis Cosgrove, Reaktion, London, 1999, 213-52.

Girot, Christophe. “Four Trace Concepts in Landscape Architecture.” In Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture, ed. James Corner, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999, 59-66.

Jones, Michael. “Seasonal landscapes in Northern Europe.” In Landscape, Law and Customary Rights, ed. Michael Jones and Audhild Schanche, Diedut 3, Sámi Instituhtta, Kautokeino 2004, 11-38.

Meløe, Jacob. “The Two Landscapes of Northern Norway.” In Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. Volume 31, issue 3. Bergen 1988, 387-401.

Tsing, Anna. More-than-Human Sociality A Call for Critical Description.” In Anthropology and Nature, ed. Kirsten Hastrup, Routledge, New York, 2013, 27-42.

Sara, Mikkel Nils Land Usage and Siida Autonomy, Arctic Review on Law and Politics, vol. 3, 2/2011 p. 138–158.

Mandatory coursework	Courseworks required	Presence required	Comment
Annet - spesifiser i kommentarfeltet		Required	It is mandatory to read and analyze the course literature, to hand in all designated deliverables, and do designated peer review. Lectures, tutorials, and reading/writing group activities have mandatory attendance at 80%.

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)	-	Pass / fail	A sensor will evaluate the final papers. The teacher will evaluate the student’s personal progress and oral participation in discussions throughout the semester. English reading and academic writing skills, as well as knowledge of Arctic conditions may be unequally distributed in the student group when we start the semester, willingness to help each other with overcoming obstacles will be taken into consideration in the evaluation.

Workload activity	Comment
Lectures	• Thematic lectures and conversations. • Reading and analyzing articles, essays, papers, and project description to recognize concerns, research questions, genres and structure. • Making drawings and maps as a way of conceiving original research questions, explore concerns, and add layers of reflection. • Step-by-step writing assignments focused on the craft of asking questions, developing, structuring, editing, and transforming academic texts between formats. • Write, present, and re-write an academic paper. • Orally sharing, presenting, and give feedback to ideas in conversation within the group, with guest lecturers, in personal tutoring, and through peer review.

Workload activity

Comment

Lectures

• Thematic lectures and conversations. • Reading and analyzing articles, essays, papers, and project description to recognize concerns, research questions, genres and structure. • Making drawings and maps as a way of conceiving original research questions, explore concerns, and add layers of reflection. • Step-by-step writing assignments focused on the craft of asking questions, developing, structuring, editing, and transforming academic texts between formats. • Write, present, and re-write an academic paper. • Orally sharing, presenting, and give feedback to ideas in conversation within the group, with guest lecturers, in personal tutoring, and through peer review.

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80 302 Norwegian Tectonic Traditions in Wood.

Full course name in Norwegian Bokmål:

Norske tektoniske trebyggingstradisjoner

Credits:

Course code:

80 302

Level of study:

Master

Teaching semester:

2017 Autumn

Assessment semester:

2017 Autumn

Language of instruction:

Norwegian

Year:

2017

Maximum number of students:

Person in charge

Kolbjørn Nesje Nybø

Required prerequisite knowledge

There are no prerequisites beyond what is mentioned in the study program.

Course content

The first part of the course consists of lectures about, and discussions on construction types and various techniques used on wooden buildings. Parallel with this, the students builds models of construction principles, and / or they write a scientific essay on a relevant topic. The literature in the course and discussions, form an important basis for the articles and the model studies. The students work shall be delivered, and presented and discussed in plenary before the last week. This last week is very intensive and important on this course. Then the students build a timber frame building in full scale.

Learning outcome

Knowledge: Able to identify wooden buildings in relation to a cultural and technical context. Able to explain the building's structure and the craftsmanship related to it.

Skills: Ability to apply the knowledge by participating in the construction of a wooden structure in full scale. Able to write a scientific essay related to the course theme.

Competence: Better understanding of traditional wooden building technics and properties in the wooden material.

Working and learning activities

Lectures and discussions. Modelbuilding. Writing a scientific essay. Workshop - building a full scale timberframed building.

Mandatory coursework	Courseworks required	Presence required	Comment
Annet - spesifiser i kommentarfeltet		Required	Workshop - building a full scale timberframed building

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Other assessment method, define in comment field	Individual	Pass / fail	Writing a scientific essay

Workload activity	Comment
Group work	Participation in the group work is expected.
Lectures	Attendance and participation in lectures is expected, and absence may result in a lower grade.

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80 301 Norwegian Architecture - an introduction

Full course name in Norwegian Bokmål:

Norwegian Architecture

Credits:

Course code:

80 301

Level of study:

Master

Teaching semester:

2017 Autumn

Assessment semester:

2017 Autumn

Language of instruction:

English

Year:

2017

Maximum number of students:

Person in charge

Amandine Kastler

Required prerequisite knowledge

This course is only open for exchange students, international students and Norwegian master students might attend if the course does not fill up.

A good verbal and written command of the English language is required.

Knowledge of architectural history is recommended.

Course content

This seminar will provide a structure for understanding Norwegian architecture. Students will be introduced to Norwegian architectural projects, past and present, in relation to the language and the concepts through which architecture is understood. This will be extended to provide a foundation for considering the history of Norwegian architecture and the history of the city of Oslo.

The seminar will investigate the main themes that have dominated architectural production in Norway. The course will study the relationship between Norwegian architecture and other cultural fields with the aim of highlighting how Norway has conveyed and invented its national identity through buildings. Case studies will provide the framework for students to discover how Norway’s built environment has dealt with questions of style, influence and institutional organisation.

Building on the work of previous years, students will continue to contribute to the Room of Possibilities blog that was established by Andrea Pinochet. Each student will report, in a semi-journalistic fashion, the findings of their research and analysis of chosen case study. The blog is intended to serve as resource and informal guide to Norwegian architecture for both local and vising architects and students.

During the duration of the semester students will engage with contemporary architects, historians, academics, and artists. Lectures and excursions will support and supplement students individual case study analysis.

Learning outcome

Participants will gain an understanding of the evolution of the architectural thought and practice within the Norwegian context.

Participants will be introduced to scholarly practices such as conducting interviews, academic writing, working with archives and building analysis.

Students will learn to identify a topic of interest and synthesise material in order to produce a concise report.

Students will experiment with different media and engage in the production of a shared knowledge based resource.

Working and learning activities

Excursions will be planned for most meetings and will take place in the Oslo metropolitan area. Lectures will supplement the field trips and provide necessary background information. The weekly programme for this course will be structured in two parts. Seminar meetings will be held in the morning and excursions will take place in the afternoon. Local architects and other school faculty will regularly join the field trips.

Field trips and outdoor visits will be carried out regardless of weather conditions. Students are responsible from dressing accordingly. Warm and waterproof clothing is recommended, especially in the second half of the field trip schedule.

Students are responsible for their own transportation arrangements and bringing any necessary documentation and equipment.

Students are expected to attend all meetings and be active contributors and participants.

Curriculum

The curriculum will be given out closer to the start date.

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Report	Individual	Pass / fail	As per the course description, each student will be required to produce and present a concise report with the aim of it being posted on the Room of Possibilities blog. The final report will include a text supported by research material and analytical drawings. In preparation for the final submission students will be required to submit several drafts over the duration of the semester. Each submission will contribute to the final assessment.

Workload activity	Comment
Attendance	Students are expected to attend all meetings and be active contributors and participants

Start semester

2017 Høst

80 509 OCCAS Moving monuments: Rome

Credits:

Full course name in Norwegian Bokmål:

OCCAS Moving monuments: Rome

Course code:

80 509

Level of study:

Master

Teaching semester:

2017 Autumn

Assessment semester:

2017 Autumn

Language of instruction:

English

Year:

2017

Maximum number of students:

Person in charge

Victor Plahte Tschudi

Required prerequisite knowledge

No specific previous knowledge required.

Course content

OCCAS Moving Monuments: Rome offers a study of historical monuments. The course teaches you about buildings but also about the techniques and approaches that you need to know to become a scholar.

Initially, you are asked to select a monument in Rome, which you will work with and investigate throughout the course. To aid that investigation, a seminar led by six OCCAS teachers presents a spectrum of approaches to architectural research, intended to guide both you and the monument through history – and history through its many mediations.

“Moving” may refer to the transportation of architecture, but also to the recreation and circulation of monuments in various media and materials, museums and models, print- and preservation strategies. Experts in respective fields, counting Tim Anstey, Inga Bostad, Mari Hvattum, Mari Lending, Victor Plahte Tschudi and Even Smith Wergeland, join forces to teach you not only about past monuments but also about the methods that enable us to think, write and talk about them.

Learning outcome

The learning outcome is twofold. First, the course offers extensive knowledge of buildings (primarily in Rome) and of the media and materials that convey them, ranging from plaster to the popular press. However, the course is also about research, introducing students to topics such as hermeneutics, archival studies, visual analysis, and textual interpretation. In short, the aim is to turn students into confident researchers able to command and apply contemporary perspectives on a historical material.

Working and learning activities

The course is structured as a series of mini-seminars organized by the OCCAS teaching staff. One of the seminars takes place in Rome, the others at AHO, consisting of a combination of lectures and workshops. In three assignments, you are asked to present different aspect of “your” monument. Simultaneously you will work on your main presentation under individual supervision.

Curriculum

A short reading list accompanies each mini-seminar, and will be presented in due time.

Mandatory coursework	Presence required	Comment
Exercise	Not required	The submission and presentation of three short essays during term in addition to work on final presentation.
Excursions	Not required	One-week field trip to Rome-
Annet - spesifiser i kommentarfeltet	Not required

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)	Individual	Pass / fail	Evaluation is based on the submission and presentation of three essays. In the essays, you are expected to present "your" monument from the various perspectives examined and discussed at seminars.
Oral presentation	Individual	-	The final presentation takes the form of a 30-minute lecture for an invited audience, based on a manuscript and complete with pictures.

Workload activity	Comment
Attendance	Attendance and participation in weekly seminars and workshops is expected, and absence may result in a lower grade.

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60 302 Landscape Architecture's Themes and Concepts

Credits:

Full course name in Norwegian Bokmål:

Tema og konsepter i landskapsarkitekturen

Course code:

60 302

Level of study:

Master

Teaching semester:

2017 Autumn

Assessment semester:

2017 Autumn

Language of instruction:

Norwegian / English

Maximum number of students:

Required prerequisite knowledge

This course is mandatory for 1st year Master of Landscape Architecture students, open to other students at master's level.

Course content

Norwegian Landscape Architecture has lately produced a range of projects with high quality in a growing discipline and profession. With its focus on geography, the history of landscape architecture, paradigm shift, people’s health the subject has grown into an important discipline for urbanism’s latest design practices. Students will be introduced to landscape architecture's broad scope. As well as how its methods and theories the past years have been more and more important due to increasing problems in the world. Landscape architecture has the tools to solve many of these problems. The students will follow landscape architecture2discourse and design practices, through site and office visits in Oslo.

Learning outcome

After passed course the student shall understand how ecological, infrastructural factors shape the urban landscape, and have broad knowledge of landscape architecture’ s themes and concepts.

Working and learning activities

The course offers both lectures and a seminar. Lectures will focus on decisive moments within the landscape architectural discourse: analysis, project development, design processes, green/ blue infrastructure systems, blue green systems, from road to street.

7 lectures Tuesday mornings 9:30-11:00 from August to October:

Lecture 1: 22.8. Rainer Stange: «Water is the logic of the landscape»- and visit Bjerkedalen park
Lecture 2: 29.8 Jeppe Aalgaard Andersen: «City Paving»
Lecture 3: 5.9. Luis Callejas: «Images of many natures»
Lecture 4: 12.9. Rainer Stange: «Urban Trees» and visit Dronning Eufemias gate and Kong Håkon den 5.s gate
Lecture 5: 19.9 Jeppe Aalgaard Andersen: «It’s all about Water»
Lecture 6: 25.9 26.9 Alf Haukeland: «St. Olavs Hospital»
Lecture 7: 3.10 Rainer Stange: «Rails»

3 lectures Thursday evenings 18:00-20:00 in October and November with theme: Scandinavian landscape architecture

Lecture 8: 12.10. Axel Sømme, CUBUS, «Works” Bergen
Lecture 9: 26.10. Mattias Gustafsson, urbio: «The red-green-blue cityscape». Stockholm
Lecture 10: 9.11. Marianne Levinsen, København: «Det man ikke ser».

Assignment

The assignment for the course includes the INDIVIDUAL student production of a single A4 after every lecture (of both ‘in-house’ lectures and those of guests). The A4 page needs to contain an image + caption (The image needs to be self-produced from the fieldwork/ lecture (sketch/ photograph, collage/ manipulation of image – but NOTHING FROM THE INTERNET). After last lecture the 10 assignments should be produced as one documents and handed in.

Seminar 6th – 12th November = intensive week for elective course (and end of course) by Giambattista Zaccariotto.

Curriculum

Mandatory Reading

Boulevard Book. History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards Allan Jacobs Allan Jacobs. Elizabeth MacDonald, Yodan Rofe. The MIT Press August 2003

The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture. Waterman, Tim. AVA Publishing, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2009

Digital Landscape Architecture Now. Amoroso, N. & Hargreaves, G. Thames and Hudson 2012

Suggested Reading:

Great Streets. August 1995 The MIT Press August 1995

Des arbres dans la ville. Caroline Mollie, Actes Sud & Val'hor, Paris, 2009

Promenades de Paris. Adolphe Alphonse, Paris, 1867-73, 2002

Blågrønn hovedstad. Oslo Elveforum, Oslo, 2010

Design With Nature . McHarg, Ian. 1971, Garden City: Natural History Press.

The Granite Garden . Spirn, Anne Whiston, New York, Basic Book, Inc., 1984.

CENTER, Volume 14: On Landscape Urbanism (Paperback) The Center for American Architecture and Design; 1st edition (April 1, 2007)

Landscape Urbanism - Kerb 15 (Paperback) RMIT Press 2007

The Recovering of Landscape . Corner, ed. 1999. Princeton Architectural Press.

The Landscape Approach . Lassus, Bernard. 1998, University of Pennsylvania Press.

Mappings . Cosgrove, Denis (ed.), 1999, London

Unnatural Horizons: Paradox and Contradiction in Landscape Architecture . Weiss, Allen S., 1989, New York : Princeton Architectural Press

Theory in Landscape Architecture . Swaffield 2002 University of Pennsylvania Press

The Landscape Urbanism Reader . Charles Waldheim. Princeton Architectural Press; 2006

Territories: From Landscape to City . Agence Ter and Lisa Diedrich (Editor). 2008, Birkhäuser Basel

Intermediate Natures: The Landscapes of Michel Desvigne

by E. Kugler (Translator), James Corner (Foreword), Gilles A. Tiberghien (Contributor)

2008, Birkhäuser Basel

The New Economy of Nature. Gretchen Daily and Katherine Ellison, Island Press, 2003

Politics of Nature, Bruno Latour and Catherine Porter. Harvard University Press, 2004

Living Systems. Margolis/ Robinson, 2007. Built examples,

innovative materials and technologies in landscape architecture praxis.

Magazines:
Daidalos

JOLA (Journal of Landscape Architecture)

New geographies

‘ scape: The International Magazine of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism

Topos: European Landscape Magazine

Also, you might want to check out following thematic websites on the internet:

LE:NOTRE www.le-notre.org

LE:NOTRE°Mundus Le Notre’s non- European partners network

ECLAS The European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools

ELASA - European Landscape Architecture Students Association

NLA- Norwegian Landscape Architects (Students) Association

IFLA International Federation of Landscape Architects

European Urban Landscape Partnership: the planning and management of the urban landscape

During the individual coaching sessions each student will be given texts and or litterature related to the topic of their assignment

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)	-	Pass / fail	The assignment for the course includes the INDIVIDUAL student production of a single A4 after every lecture (of both ‘in-house’ lectures and those of guests). The A4 page needs to contain an image + caption (The image needs to be self-produced from the fieldwork/ lecture (sketch/ photograph, collage/ manipulation of image – but NOTHING FROM THE INTERNET). After last lecture the 10 assignments should be produced as one documents and handed in on Friday 23th of November.

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80 113 GK1 Writing Excersises

Full course name in Norwegian Bokmål:

GK1 Skriveøvelser

Credits:

Course code:

80 113

Level of study:

Bachelor

Teaching semester:

2017 Autumn

Assessment semester:

2017 Autumn

Language of instruction:

Norwegian

Year:

2017

Person in charge

Mari Lending

Required prerequisite knowledge

Det kreves ingen forkunnskaper utover opptakskrav i studieprogrammet. Bestått ExPhil

Course content

Drawing on material spanning from extracts from novels, poems, journalism and criticism to art works, films, buildings or exhibitions, the small writing exercises is about pinning down details and fragments in which a wider world of architecture and design might be mirrored. We look at the way in which architecture and design is evoked and depicted within different literary, historical and artistic contexts. The students will learn to zoom in on particular details, and give precise descriptions of spaces, buildings and objects as presented in different media and genres. The writing exercises aims at cultivating genre sensitivity and help the student to identify the way in which architectural form and design appears outside architectural discourse.

Learning outcome

The students will learn to zoom in on particular details, and give precise descriptions of spaces, buildings and objects as presented in different media and genres. The writing exercises aims at cultivating genre sensitivity and help the student to identify the way in which architectural form and design appears outside architectural discourse.

Working and learning activities

Every Monday the students will be presented for a text, an image, a film, etc. The assignments might vary a bit from week to week, but normally the student will be asked to hand in a maximum two pages text, to be reviewed by the teacher and presented for the group. The seminar is not based on lectures; rather it revolves around presentations and discussions in the seminar. After having been revised and rewritten, the student will make a selection of all the text handed in during the semster texts, and produce a little book. The final reviews will assess both the quality of the written texts and the book design.

Mandatory coursework	Courseworks required	Presence required	Comment
Presence required		Required

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Project assignment	-	A-F	The student will make a selection of all the text handed in during the semster texts, and produce a little book. The final reviews will assess both the quality of the written texts and the book design.

Workload activity	Comment
Individual problem solving	The course runs from 11-15 every Monday and the students hand in one text each week.

Start semester

2017 Høst

40 514 Guest Studio

Full course name in Norwegian Bokmål:

Guest studio

Credits:

Course code:

40 514

Level of study:

Master

Teaching semester:

2017 Autumn

Assessment semester:

2017 Autumn

Language of instruction:

Norwegian / English

Year:

2017

Maximum number of students:

Person in charge

Neven Mikac Fuchs

Required prerequisite knowledge

Passed 6 semesters + knowledge of Rhino

Course content

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.

Learning outcome

1. Formulating the independent and prejudice-less thinking about architecture and working with its constituent elements, space structure, site, program, façade, building materials, etc.

2. Stimulating the individual awareness of today’s positions in architecture

3. Stimulating the awareness of one's own architectural position and one's own attitude toward the work with architecture

4. Benefit from the work with a foreign guest-teacher and from the confrontation with his architectural thinking, knowledge, experience and imagination.

After finishing the course, the student should:

- be able to develop and consciously use his/her own working method

- be able to argue for an individual and specific statement about his/her design aims. This statement is important as starting point, but also as benchmark of every architectural project.

- be able to develop principles for structuring of both basic and complex architectural material and technical skills to develop it into a final project

- be able to develop and structure the architectural knowledge on the base of specific project themes chosen to work with during the studio

- be able to learn how to creatively use architectural research in the work with architecture.

- be able to present and communicate his/her architectural ideas and his/her final project through the appropriate forms of representation, with drawings, models, diagrams, photos, 3Ds, etc.

Working and learning activities

The main aims of teaching in the studio will be:

- to create motivation to the analytical thinking and the causal architectural expression

- to stimulate, cultivate and articulate personal discussions with teachers, as well as open public discussions within the studio, on the development of the projects

The teaching will consist of the work in the studio, the individual discussions and desk crits, case studies, public discussions, seminaries, films and lectures structured in-between 3 public reviews.

The work will be conducted in 4 steps with three interim reviews plus the final review. On these occasions students have to present the state of their work in a consistent and convincing way. The duration of each step will be approximately 1 month, ending with a public presentation and discussion/critique of the individual work.

Work load will consist of:

- texts, drawings and models, digital and hand-produced, in different scale, photographs and 3D illustrations

- the prepared public discussions and reviews of the individual work

- the final project will be presented with photos, texts, drawings, models and 3D renders

Curriculum

Pensum will be presented later.

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)	Individual	Pass / fail	Forms of examination include following: - the active presence and work in the studio during the whole semester the assessment will focus on: a. student’s architectural sensibility and awareness of architectural problems, b. the clarity of argumentation, built-up during the process c. the ability to evaluate the quality of the project idea, d. the strength of “conversion” of idea into an architectural project, e. the evaluation of the intellectual and architectural capacity to confront the creative risk involved in the project f. the developed presentation material and presence at 3 public reviews during the semester g. the delivered complete project material for the exhibition AHO Works and for the final review.

Workload activity	Comment
Attendance
Evaluation (mid term)

Mandatory coursework:	Presence required
Courseworks required:
Presence required:	Required
Comment:	90% attendance at lectures, workshops, seminars and tutorials is required.

Mandatory coursework:	Presence required
Courseworks required:
Presence required:	Required
Comment:	90% attendance at lectures, workshops, seminars and tutorials is required.

Mandatory coursework:	Annet - spesifiser i kommentarfeltet
Courseworks required:
Presence required:	Required
Comment:	It is mandatory to read and analyze the course literature, to hand in all designated deliverables, and do designated peer review. Lectures, tutorials, and reading/writing group activities have mandatory attendance at 80%.

Form of assessment:	Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)
Grouping:	-
Grading scale:	Pass / fail
Comment:	A sensor will evaluate the final papers. The teacher will evaluate the student’s personal progress and oral participation in discussions throughout the semester. English reading and academic writing skills, as well as knowledge of Arctic conditions may be unequally distributed in the student group when we start the semester, willingness to help each other with overcoming obstacles will be taken into consideration in the evaluation.

Mandatory coursework:	Annet - spesifiser i kommentarfeltet
Courseworks required:
Presence required:	Required
Comment:	Workshop - building a full scale timberframed building

Languages

2017 Høst

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80 311 Drawn to Architecture

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40 305 Information-based Design

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40 309 Computational Modelling in Rhino and Grasshopper

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65 301 The Global North and The High North

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80 302 Norwegian Tectonic Traditions in Wood.

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80 301 Norwegian Architecture - an introduction

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80 509 OCCAS Moving monuments: Rome

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60 302 Landscape Architecture's Themes and Concepts

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80 113 GK1 Writing Excersises

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40 514 Guest Studio

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Workload activity:	Attendance
Comment:	It is expected that the students are present every Tuesday and reserve the whole day for the course.