2018 Høst

Start semester

80 110 Introduction to Architecture

Credits:

Full course name in Norwegian Bokmål:

GK1 Introduksjon til arkitektur

Course code:

80 110

Level of study:

Master

Teaching semester:

2018 Autumn

Assessment semester:

2018 Autumn

Language of instruction:

Norwegian

Maximum number of students:

Person in charge

Anna Røtnes

Siri Moseng

Required prerequisite knowledge

There are no prerequisites beyond admission to the study program

Course content

GK1 is an introductory course to the professional studies of architecture at AHO. The course is organized around design projects and constitutes the larger part of the first semester. The students are divided in two studios, however the teaching is the same for both studios. Students will work individually and in groups. There are three half time teachers in each studio as well as teachers responsible for teaching free hand drawing and computer aided design. In addition to the design work there will be courses in: The use of AHO's work shops Analytical free hand drawing Digital design and representation

Learning outcome

The course establishes a platform for further studies at AHO. After the end of the course the student should have : An understanding of working methods and different approaches towards thinking and communicating within the discipline. Knowledge of two- and three dimensional visualization in connection to concept development and project presentation. Experience in written and oral communication of subjects related to the discipline. Knowledge of the school workshops. Experience with analytical free hand drawing. Basic knowledge of the use of computer aided design.

Working and learning activities

Teaching will be mainly in the form of weekly tutoring, pin-ups, lectures, seminars and work shops. The contact between teachers and students happens one on one, in groups or in the presence of the whole studio. Common reviews where the student must present his or her work to the studio for open discussion constitutes an important part of the training. There will be an excursion abroad common to all students at the beginning of the semester.The course uses Moodle as it's digital learning platform for communication concerning schedule and program.

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)	Individual	Pass / fail
Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)	Individual	Pass / fail

Workload activity	Comment
Attendance
Excursion

Start semester

80 311 Drawn to Architecture

Full course name in Norwegian Bokmål:

Drawn to Architecture

Credits:

Course code:

80 311

Teaching semester:

2018 Autumn

Assessment semester:

2018 Autumn

Language of instruction:

Norwegian / English

Maximum number of students:

Person in charge

Ingrid Lønningdal

Required prerequisite knowledge

Passed foundation level courses (bachelor) and basic drawing skills.

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.

Start semester

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:

2018 Autumn

Assessment semester:

2018 Autumn

Language of instruction:

Norwegian

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 architectural history, and 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
Exercise	1	Required	A scientific essay will be written during the semester, with submission before elective course week. The essay must be presented orally and is part of the final assessment.
Annet - spesifiser i kommentarfeltet		Required	The elective course week is a workshop - Building a full scale timberframed building. Active participation in the workshop is required and is part of the final assessment basis.

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)	Individual	Pass / fail

Workload activity	Comment
Lectures	Attendance and participation in lectures is expected.
Written assignments	Writing of a scientific essay

Start semester

2018 Høst

40 523 Embedded Architectures

Full course name in Norwegian Bokmål:

Embedded Architectures

Credits:

Course code:

40 523

Level of study:

Master

Teaching semester:

2018 Autumn

Assessment semester:

2018 Autumn

Language of instruction:

English

Year:

2018

Maximum number of students:

Person in charge

Søren S. Sørensen

Michael Ulrich Hensel

Required prerequisite knowledge

Completed Bachelor Studies

Course content

This project-based studio offers practice oriented design assignments focused on designing architectures that are specific to landscape, climate, terrain and land-use. This implies architectures that are closely embedded into their context. Together we will seek to address locally specific conditions and circumstances, and societal and environmental changes that require architectural designs that go beyond current standard practice.

During the fall semester 2018 we will focus on locally specific spatial, programmatic and environmental criteria. Students will be working individually or in small teams on design projects. The site will be located in Lamole in Chianti, Italy, where we will be going as an excursion.

Learning outcome

To develop an understanding of and a response to the increasingly complex design requirements architectural designs have to meet and therefore to be prepared for practice in architecture and the challenges architects need to meet.

The ability to set up and follow through a design process that leads to the desired result;

The ability to utilize design as a method of research in architecture that facilitates the conception of novel architectural designs;

Students will gain detailed knowledge of the architectural and computational design themes pursued by the studio and develop skill in computational design in architecture;

Students will gain the ability to develop designs based on specific performative criteria in an integrated manner from the conceptual stage to the material articulation through computational design;

Knowledge in associative modelling and generative systems;

Knowledge in use of advanced architectural and design visualization;

Working and learning activities

Research-by-Design Project

Weekly studio tutorials and project discussions with regular participation of the collaborating practices

Lectures by staff

Seminars by staff

Computational methods workshops

Study trip with participation in research seminars and activities

Reviews and presentations

Curriculum

Core thematic foci include:
• Performance-oriented Architecture;

• Informed Non-standard;
• Information-based Design;
• Embedded Architectures;

The methodological approach encompasses:
• Information-based Design;
• Integration of data-driven Methods, Processes, Information and Analysis;
• Data-collection and utilization in computational design;

Mandatory coursework	Courseworks required	Presence required	Comment
Annet - spesifiser i kommentarfeltet		Not required	3 deliveries during the semester, all of which must be submitted and approved to be considered on the final project assignment.

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)	Individual	Pass / fail	Oral presentation of the project is part of the final delivery.

Start semester

2018 Høst

40 520 High Definition Architecture

Credits:

Full course name in Norwegian Bokmål:

High Definition Architecture

Course code:

40 520

Level of study:

Master

Teaching semester:

2018 Autumn

Assessment semester:

2018 Autumn

Language of instruction:

English

Year:

2018

Maximum number of students:

Person in charge

Espen Vatn

Required prerequisite knowledge

Passed foundation level

Course content

"The hallucinatory effect derives from the extraordinary clarity and not from mystery or mist. Nothing is more fantastic ultimately than precision."

Alain Robbe-Grillet on Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis

Introduction

Continuing a series of studios that investigate Universal Architecture, this studio will develop projects which addresses universality through the design of buildings with high degree of specificity and particular requirements. We will delve into the relationship of form and content, creating architecture with an ambition to design and define everything, conceiving the building as a complete world. The task will be to design buildings for the German state apparatus, developing architectural responses to the largest government in Europe. The discussions will center around direct and literal architecture: an architecture of matter-of-fact who´s aims and agency is clear and stated.

Rather than seeking universal qualities in the generic, we will attempt to find those qualities through hyper-specificity. In doing so, we will engage with questions of technology, structure and tectonics in relation to the city and current economic realities´ impact on architecture. We will discuss in what way structure is a carrier of content, addressing questions of construction and civic space within the city.

The studio will begin with the examination of precedents, studying exemplary buildings which are born out of not only specific technical requirements, but unique choreographies of program, space, site and cultural conditions. How in turn those specific buildings achieve unmistakable and transferable qualities will be at the center of discussion in the studio.

Spaces of Public Management

Participants will work on the design on spaces for the government of Germany in Berlin, one of the largest bureaucracies in Europe. Each student will be asked to define her or his sector, department or even more infrastructural projects related to the state apparatus.

In the design of the building we will work with the industrial process of production to build tailor made industrial products, such as building parts and details. We will then look into contemporary modes of construction, slip casting, 3D printing, CNC milling, other manufacturing technologies. In their projects, students will engage in architectural production through detailed design and crafting of both buildings and books, employing drawing and writing as essential means to produce architecture.

The City

We will delve into buildings of the city which are neither capricious nor urbane and aim to develop civic architecture which has the ambition synthesizing a public ambition into a whole, forming a space for the collective imagination, precisely not ´iconic´. We will develop projects addressing the public appropriate for the 21st century.

As primitives of the new technological era, we will work from within the discipline of architecture harboring both an understanding of architecture as an ancient discipline and a fascination for the new world, developing an architecture which serves as landing strips for dust, motes, light and shadow.

Learning outcome

Upon completion of this studio the students will have gained knowledge of the design of a project in a dense urban situation in a major metropolis of Europe.

Working and learning activities

The studio will be based on work in the studio and lectures by the faculty or invited guests.
The studio will meet two days a week, in addition to reviews and lecture days.
There will be frequent announced informal pin-ups and desk-crits.

Curriculum

Woods, M., 1999. From Craft to Profession The Practice of Architecture in Nineteenth-Century America. 1st ed. Berkely: University of California Press.
Huyssen, A., 2017. Miniature Metropolis. Harvard University Press.
Linder, M., 2017. Nothing Less Than Literal. MIT Press.
Vidler, A., 2011. The Scenes of the Street and other Essays. 1st ed. New York: Monacelli Press.

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Project assignment	Individual	Pass / fail	There will be one project task throughout the semester. The final project delivery consist of complete drawing set, models, descriptive text and presentation. The final evaluation will be based on the overall quality of project and development throughout the semester. The students will also be evaluated on the quality of the models and the clarity and communication of the architectural drawings and argument.

Start semester

2018 Høst

40 519 Emptiness

Credits:

Full course name in Norwegian Bokmål:

Emptiness

Course code:

40 519

Level of study:

Master

Teaching semester:

2018 Autumn

Assessment semester:

2018 Autumn

Language of instruction:

English

Year:

2018

Maximum number of students:

Person in charge

Thomas McQuillan

Course content

Background
This studio course is an examination of the idea of emptiness in architecture as its fundamental component. The spatial emptiness that a buillding encloses, and the space that it creates around itself, are the most basic features of architecture, but it is easy to lose sight of them in the precise work of constructing a building. Our work will be in seeing and making emptiness through the techniques of architecture.
The purpose of this course is to gain experience with working with space as the primary content of built work. We ask you to develop a spatial idea that is given architectural form, through a process of understanding how its basic features — shape, materiality and structure — combine to give space. Empty space. Our method of working will be defined by the following characteristics:

Experimentation and self definition
AHO’s master level pedagogy is defined by a studio environment in which students interact with teacher and fellow students in a context of making and dialog. Central to this environment is the recognition by the student of their own resposibility for remaining continually open to experimentation, and to define their own ambitions. The studio will encourage an experimental approach in which current architectural ideas are challenged by an informed reading of architectural history. We ask that the students define their own architectural idea and define its scope with respect to site and program.

Focus on precision, quality and beauty
We believe that the complexity of architecure and the depth of feeling that it can evoke demands a continual focus on precision and quality. The products of the studio should hold a high standard with respect to craftsmanship and precision. And the recognition of beauty — however widely this might be understood — should inform our creative work.

Approach
We will explore the process of defining precise architectural ideas that lead to individually unique, yet ordinary and generous spaces. With emptiness as the point of departure, we call each student to invent their understanding of the term, through a series of exercises that include observing, mapping and defining emptiness on varying conditions, gestures, and architectural scales.

Semester Plan
15th August: An Experience of Emptiness
We will meet at St Halvards Church at 10:00.
17th August: Reading the Texts
We will meet at 13:00 to read your texts and to discuss the next task.
20th August: Mapping Emptiness
31st August: Review 1
4th September: Excursion
17th September: Defining Emptiness
28th September: Review 2
1st October: Definition of an Architectural Idea
12th October: Review 3
15th October: An Architectural Proposal
2nd November: Review 4
5th November: Development and Documentation
12th December: Final Review and AHO Works Exhibition

Learning outcome

Experience with the role of emptiness in the creation of architectural space
Experience with understanding incompleteness as an design strategy
Ability to construct and argue for innovative architectural schemes
Ability to represent the above in a convincing manner through text, drawings and images
Knowledge of basic theories of emptiness and experience discussing these in plenum

Working and learning activities

Work forms:

Exploring new ways of seeing through a thoughtful use of photography.
Modelling emptiness through physical models, to explore and interpret spatial concepts of emptiness.
A study of architectural references through detailed drawing and model studies of several significant examples of historical Korean architecture.
Student-led seminars on a given set of readings that are relevant to the topic of ‘emptiness’.
Architectural design in a studio environment.

Organization:

Preliminary tasks that investigate the concept of emptiness
Case studies of architectural precedents
Studio discussions
Reading seminars
Study trip
Plenary reviews

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)	Individual	Pass / fail	Portfolio with preliminary studies and final project Final review of deliverables

Start semester

2018 Høst

40 518 Architectonic Typologies 2/Guest Studio

Credits:

Full course name in Norwegian Bokmål:

Architectonic Typologies 2/Guest Studio

Course code:

40 518

Level of study:

Master

Teaching semester:

2018 Autumn

Assessment semester:

2018 Autumn

Language of instruction:

Norwegian / English

Year:

2018

Maximum number of students:

Person in charge

Neven Mikac Fuchs

Young Eun Choi

Required prerequisite knowledge

PASSED 7 SEMESTERS + knowledge of Rhino

Course content

The students will design a building starting from a given general “typology”, such as “public space”, “tower”, “timber, village, courtyard, foyer”, etc., which will become the themes of the design studio for the whole semester. We will propose three different themes in beginning of the semester. The students will develop just one of the three topics individually with one of the three Mendrisio and Oslo assistants and in public discussions with all the teachers. Each theme is thought so as to be a source of shared inspiration for a further project development, that was imagined to be both purposeful and free. All the parameters of the project, such as the site and the program, form part of the choices that each student will have to cope with individually by developing their own architectonic and spatial interpretations of the given “typological theme”. The students will decide independently whether to work on a small scale, concentrating on a single object, or on a large scale. The preliminary choices that they will take before undertaking the design of the project, will be discussed collectively.

The studio will be thought in collaboration with atelier Olgiati from Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio. http://www.arc.usi.ch/en

Architectonic Typologies is a guest professor master studio, chair ‘Rom og Teknikk’, concerned with exploring ideas about architectonic space and different techniques of making these ideas possible as real and beautiful 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 and spatial 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 – the structures of different scales and meaning that embody the essence of an architectonic space. We understand the process of design as a search 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

Learning outcome

1. Formulating the independent and prejudice-less thinking about architecture and working with its constituent elements, like site, size, function, typology, 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 and develop them 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, during the development of the projects

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

Practically, the work will be organized in 4 steps with three interim reviews plus the final review. On these occasions students will 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 each individual work.

The study trip will go to a place, difficult to visit alone. We are thinking about going to Uzbekistan, or India.

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

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. The studio-work is evaluated with Passed or Not Passed, jf. according to the regulations for master’s degree programs at AHO

Curriculum

Curriculum/literature will be presented before the beginning of the studio

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Project assignment	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 04.06.2016. The studio-work is evaluated with Passed or Not Passed, jf. Regulation for Master Studies at AHO‚ pt. 6-14.

Start semester

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:

2018 Autumn

Assessment semester:

2018 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 that have passed the foundation 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.

Professor in charge:

Rainer Stange

Additional staff:

Elisabeth Ulrika Sjødahl, Sabine Muller, Luis Callejas and Giambattista Zaccariotto Åsa von Malortie, Erik Brand Dam, Iwan Thomson

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: 21.8. Rainer Stange: «Water is the logic of the landscape»-
- Visit Bjerkedalen park
Lecture 2: 28.8. Rainer Stange: «Urban Trees»
- Visit office Dronninga landskap, Dronningens gate 22.
- Visit Dronning Eufemias gate and Kong Håkon den 5.s gate.
Lecture 3: 4.9. Rainer Stange: «Rails»
Lecture 4: 11.9. Luis Callejas: «Images of many natures»
Lecture 5: 18.9 Luis Callejas: «Recent projects and persistent inquires»
Lecture 6: 25.9 Elisabeth Ulrika Sjødahl: «Landscapes in change»
Lecture 7: 2.10 Sabine Muller: «Environments - an approach to urban design»

Study trip week 41

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

Lecture 8: 18.10. Åsa von Malortie, Sweden «Works».
Lecture 9: 26.10. Erik Brand Dam, Denmark «Works».
Lecture 10: 8.11. Iwan Thomson, Norway: «Works».

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, together with the result of the intensive week. A booklet will be produces by the students as documentation of the autumn. Seminar week 45, the 5th – 9th November = intensive week for elective course (and end of course) by Giambattista Zaccariotto.

Start semester

80 131

Credits:

Full course name in Norwegian Bokmål:

GK 3 Arkitekturhistorie 2

Course code:

80 131

Level of study:

Bachelor

Teaching semester:

2018 Autumn

Assessment semester:

2018 Autumn

Language of instruction:

Norwegian

Person in charge

Mari Hvattum

Required prerequisite knowledge

The course is mandatory for all architecture students in GK3, and builds on the course Architectural history 1 (GK2)

Course content

Architectural History 2 gives an introduction to European and North-American architectural history from around 1900 until today. We study buildings and their contexts, placing particular emphasis on the origins and development of Modernism. Through a series of close readings of selected works, the course explores Modernist design practices as well as its theoretical and ideological ideals. The course is structured as a lecture series.

Learning outcome

The course gives historical knowledge as well as training in understanding and analysing buildings. At the end of the course, the students will be able to analyse architectural form in a critical, contextual, and historically conscious manner.

Working and learning activities

The course is structured as a lecture series with some short excursions to buildings. Students are expected to read course literature ahead of each lecture.

Curriculum

William Curtis, Modern architecture since 1900, London: Phaidon 1996.

Additional texts pertaining to each lecture will be uploaded on Moodle

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Written Exam	Individual	A-F

Workload activity	Comment
Lectures	Attendance and participation in lectures is expected. Students are expected to read course literature ahead of each lecture.

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60 306 The City's public spaces

Full course name in Norwegian Bokmål:

Byens offentlige rom

Credits:

Course code:

60 306

Level of study:

Master

Teaching semester:

2018 Autumn

Assessment semester:

2018 Autumn

Language of instruction:

Norwegian / English

Maximum number of students:

Person in charge

Jonny Aspen

Required prerequisite knowledge

Det kreves ingen forkunnskaper utover opptakskrav i studieprogrammet.

Course content

This course has the city’s public spaces as its thematic focus. The course sets out to explore, through theory as well as empirical research in Oslo, what the main characteristics of urban public spaces can be said to be today. We will look into how public spaces are produced, used and perceived across a range of spatial settings and social contexts. Some of the questions we will deal with are the following: What are the most important forces shaping todays urban public spaces? In what ways are urban public spaces changing? What is it that makes urban spaces public?

Learning outcome

Knowledge: The students will gain knowledge about contemporary urban public spaces that will be of great value for discussing architecture and urban development. Skills: The students will be trained in reading, discussing and presenting theoretical texts. The students will also be trained in various modes of researching concrete urban public spaces. Competence: The students will acquire competence that prepares them, based on their own research material, for writing a final discursive paper on the topic of contemporary urban public spaces.

Working and learning activities

The course will consist of three parts: 1) a selection of lectures on issues of urban public spaces, 2) readings of a selection on theoretical texts (students are expected to prepare presentations) and seminar discussions, 3) background research related to the writing of a final paper. Students are expected to read a selection of the curriculum for each weekly session.

Curriculum

pensumliste utleveres ved kursstart

Mandatory coursework	Courseworks required	Presence required	Comment
Annet - spesifiser i kommentarfeltet		Not required	The student will hold a presentation based on the compulsory reading

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Project assignment	-	Pass / fail	The students shall write up a final paper that is to be handed in towards the end of the semester. The students shall also prepare a short presentation for the final critique.

Form of assessment:	Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)
Grouping:	Individual
Grading scale:	Pass / fail
Comment:

Form of assessment:	Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)
Grouping:	Individual
Grading scale:	Pass / fail
Comment:

Mandatory coursework:	Exercise
Courseworks required:	1
Presence required:	Required
Comment:	A scientific essay will be written during the semester, with submission before elective course week. The essay must be presented orally and is part of the final assessment.

Mandatory coursework:	Annet - spesifiser i kommentarfeltet
Courseworks required:
Presence required:	Required
Comment:	The elective course week is a workshop - Building a full scale timberframed building. Active participation in the workshop is required and is part of the final assessment basis.

Form of assessment:	Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)
Grouping:	Individual
Grading scale:	Pass / fail
Comment:

Languages

2018 Høst

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80 110 Introduction to Architecture

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80 311 Drawn to Architecture

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80 302 Norwegian Tectonic Traditions in Wood.

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40 523 Embedded Architectures

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40 520 High Definition Architecture

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40 519 Emptiness

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40 518 Architectonic Typologies 2/Guest Studio

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60 302 Landscape Architecture's Themes and Concepts

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80 131

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60 306 The City's public spaces

Pages

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