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12 400 Pre-diploma

Emnenavn på Norwegian Bokmål:

Pre-Diploma

Credits:

Course code:

12 400

Level of study:

Master

Teaching semester:

2023 Spring

Assessment semester:

2023 Spring

Language of instruction:

Norwegian / English

Year:

2023

Person in charge

Ute Christina Groba

Required prerequisite knowledge

Admission to AHO and successful completion of 270 ECTS.

Course content

The pre-diploma semester at AHO is an independent research task on a theme chosen by the candidate. In consultation with an supervisor, the candidate is to produce a report that details a topic to be studied, an approach or methodology, a spatial program and a plan of work. This report is the foundation of the diploma semester.

Learning outcome

An understanding of the complexity of a chosen architectural program
An ability to frame artistic and scientific research
An understanding of the given natural, social, cultural and technological conditions that govern architectural work
An awareness of the topic’s historical, societal and theoretical ramifications
An ability to communicate ideas and plan work
An understanding of one’s own individual position with the discipline

Working and learning activities

The pre-diploma semester is an independent study, undertaken in consultation with an supervisor, whose result is a program for the following diploma semester.

Distribution of supervisors takes place upon application to the head of institute. Deadline: February 1, 2023

Read more about the program here: Pre-diploma | The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (aho.no)

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Report	Individual	Pass / fail	Assessed by supervisor and course responsible.

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2023 Vår

40 654 ACDL; Superstructures

Emnenavn på Norwegian Bokmål:

ACDL; Superstructures

Credits:

Course code:

40 654

Teaching semester:

2023 Spring

Assessment semester:

2023 Spring

Language of instruction:

English

Year:

2023

Maximum number of students:

Person in charge

Søren S. Sørensen

Required prerequisite knowledge

Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).

Preliminary skills in computational design is advisory.

Part of course series: ACDL

The course is open to students from: Architecture

Course content

The theme for the project assignment in the spring is urban densification; including vertical expansion, relation to existing structures, superstructures i.a. We will, through experiments, look at novel ways to further develop existing city blocks, infrastructure and public life.

The ACDL studio is a project studio placing a strong emphasis on computational tools as part of the design process and communication of ideas. The studio is research and practice based, with an experimental approach to architectural design, design processes and methodologies. Our ambition is to investigate fundamental architectural topics by means of both analog and computational tools in an iterative way. This focus on process and methodology throughout the semester allows the analogue and digital to be considered together as part of a holistic approach. The intention is to help the students develop their own design methodology while bridging analog processes and digital tools.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

of the architectural and computational design themes pursued by the studio.
of associative modelling.
of tools for analysis and simulation relating to building performance.
of successful built examples of equivalent projects.
of advanced architectural visualization.

Skills:

in computational design in architecture.
in utilizing associative modelling systems for architectural design.
in using simulations, analysis tools and advanced visualization as part of the design process.
Reflective thinking and evaluation as a tool for developing design ideas within the design process.

General competence:

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.
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.

Working and learning activities

Lectures, workshops, studio supervision and interim deliveries.

Curriculum

Course literature will be available in Leganto.

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Project assignment	-	Pass / fail

Workload activity	Comment
Attendance	Participation and attendance in lectures, supervision at the desks in the studio, seminars and workshops is expected.
Excursion	Those who do not have the opportunity to participate in an excursion will be given an assignment/a project that replaces this.

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2023 Vår

40 655 Animism in Architecture

Emnenavn på Norwegian Bokmål:

Animism in Architecture

Credits:

Course code:

40 655

Level of study:

Master

Teaching semester:

2023 Spring

Assessment semester:

2023 Spring

Language of instruction:

English

Year:

2023

Maximum number of students:

Person in charge

Rolf Gerstlauer

Required prerequisite knowledge

Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).

Part of course series: B&SM - Acting and The Collective in a More-Than-Human World

The course is open to students from: Architecture and Landscape architecture

Course content

Body and Space Morphologies (B&SM) is a research-based teaching program in the Building Art department. Dedicated to Phenomenology in Architecture, the program offers Trans-Disciplinary master studios in explorative – architectural, pre-architectural and post-architectural - making, sensing and thinking.

We aim at preparing and enabling students to conduct their own interest driven investigation into Architectural Phenomenology - understood as a Research Creation; a working mode creating an inspired, process focused and reflective Material Practice. We consider this to be the Artistic Parallel to both Traditional Scholarly Research and Common Architectural Design Practice.

Based on performativity and affordance theories, performance and performance studies, disability and neurodiversity studies as well as phenomenology and perception theories, the B&SM Studio Works investigate primal and/or pre-architectural material/processes/phenomena/conditions and develop or perform a series of experienced distinct objects that behave relational, that inspire imagination, that provide new knowledge, strong architectural interests and/or architectural narratives or identities.

Spring 2023 marks the start of the second cycle of the B&SM course series on Acting and The Acted in a More-Than-Human World. The overall topic will be Animism in Architecture - studied and worked through a discourse on the various ideas, movements and awareness created in current ecoperformance, ecopoetic, ethnopoetic and ethnofiction works.

The semester task:

spatially to release your necessity to make something because of something else;
to act, react or enact on a distinct, personal initiative understood as necessity;
to acknowledge, accept and further act on impulse / any impulse;
to not know a thing, but wanting to get to know it;
to construct and perform identities in the things rather than in thought;
to embrace performativity as the sole act that sets and consummates your working stage and before any pre-conceived architecture;
to finally reflect on how your working stage or architectural awareness acts, who it is that is acted, and where in this act or acting a collective can be found;
to bring your work out and to give it a third-party readability in a final exhibition, a book and/or a film.

Learning outcome

Knowledge of:

the basics in phenomenology of architecture and the various practices that exist within (and that can become part of) architectural phenomenology
the basics in affordance theory and the theories concerning objecthood and/or object relations as means to fuel and reflect upon a material practice and/or artistic research in the field of architecture
the basics in performance and performance studies that make body & space morphologies: ways of making, looking at, discussing and seeing/understanding qualia and perception in the working of architecture
the basics in disability studies and neurodiversity studies as the necessary activist movements working and re-defining the human condition from “all the world’s a stage” (Shakespeare) towards for all the human spectrum with its diverse behavior dwelling in a more-than-human world
the basics of performativity, language and speech acts as the tools that can add value to the making and a work – but that not necessarily must seek to replace the issues at stake in a work or a thing
the foundational preparations for an advanced haptic visual and experimental artistic research leading to a material practice and/or architectural phenomenology

Skills in:

finding, developing and/or embracing initiatives for the making of an inspired, explorative, and imaginative artistic research
manufacturing physical and/or visual (or otherwise sensible/perceptible) works and gaining a unique expertise in the craft(s) deployed in the making of these artifacts
conducting this artistic research with the desire to make or pursue a material practice containing, or inviting for, reflections in phenomenology of architecture / architectural phenomenology
deploying complementary ways of working and means of creative investigations that make, demonstrate, or narrate a dialogue between the works inherent qualities and how this connects to (or can become) issues, phenomena and/or subjects in the world
maintaining a personal diary of the making that can be worked into documents of the making aiming at a third-party readability
approaching environments, situations, and discussions phenomenological and applying and recognizing performativity in speech and action as productive means from which to provoke and receive social employed knowing in trans-disciplinary teams

General competence in:

developing distinct initiatives and choosing the craft in which to act or work them to partake in the discourse on the phenomenology of architecture
approaching and acting on impulse with all sorts of material, objects, environments and/or events and gaining valuable experience, artefacts and/or documents from this
conceiving of and presenting/communicating unique architectural content/research through a haptic visual material and the phenomena or conditions contained and experienced in it
understanding the mechanisms and rhetoric of systems of oppression, learned behavior, eugenics and stigma that are un-productive and unsustainable (in the field of architecture as well as in the systems we call architecture)
developing and/or pursuing life-long initiatives for a material practice in architectural phenomenology that is independent of, and/or adaptable to, any kind of professional commission
not knowing a thing, but having the passion, dedication, endurance, and imagination to wanting to get to know it

Working and learning activities

The working week goes from Wednesday to Monday. Tuesdays are reserved for the studies in the elective courses. Mondays are silent working days (meaning no teaching is provided and you work independently) while the studio meets for every Wednesday and Thursday from 9:30 to 17.00 for lectures, screenings, reviews, and worktable talks. Friday from 13:00 – 15:00 is reserved for Studio Commons (student driven events or discussions etc).

We have five public mid-term reviews and prepare at the end of the semester a work display for the AHO WORKS Exhibition. The exhibition allows for the students to display their complete works (all objects and artefacts – found or made) together with a book and/or film or video containing a written and/or otherwise illustrated experience of their making and that what the making had connected to. An external sensor team will study the exhibition and books and/or video/films and then give feedback and critique on the individual work but also on the studio as a whole.

The Body & Space Morphologies diploma thesis candidates are integrated in the studio and work in the same space. We recommend the master course students to attend the diploma mid-term reviews (between four or five during the semester).

Excursion:

We plan two trips to the Lista-peninsula in Southern Norway:

a 4-days-long workshop and fieldtrip in the first week of February
and a Lista-Event-Week during the regular excursion week (week 9).

Attendance & participation in your individual studio work:

20 weeks full-time study. The work must be conducted and performed in the studio (or at LISTA) - the working material is present at any time.

Presence & participation in the collective studio discussion:

You are expected to be present at: weekly talks, lectures, and studio discussions, frequent work reviews, workshop in book making, final exhibition and at final review with invited guests-critics.

Curriculum

Course literature will be available in Leganto.

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)	-	Pass / fail	The course is assessed on the basis of: -Semester project Individual studio work on your own selected project developed throughout the course and critically reflected / presented on a final deliverable. This entails practical and theoretical exercises, visual and verbal project presentations, and the making of a final exhibition. -Process book with a text/essay. For each of the reviews, assignments are announced and students hand in visual and textual works which is complementary to the actual physical work made available and presented in the reviews. The final exhibition includes visual haptic project material and a final book (including an essay of ca 5-10000 words).

Workload activity	Comment
Attendance	Participation and attendance in lectures, supervision at the desks in the studio, seminars and workshops is expected.
Excursion	Those who do not have the opportunity to participate in an excursion will be given an assignment/a project that replaces this.

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2023 Vår

40 657 MSB - Spatial extension AHO

Emnenavn på Norwegian Bokmål:

MSB - Spatial extension AHO

Credits:

Course code:

40 657

Level of study:

Master

Teaching semester:

2023 Spring

Assessment semester:

2023 Spring

Language of instruction:

English

Year:

2023

Maximum number of students:

Person in charge

Bente Kleven

Required prerequisite knowledge

Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).

Students should master Rhino, Autocad or equivalent cadprograms for studying architectural solutions in 2D and 3D.

Part of course series: MSB

The course is open to students from: Architecture

Course content

The existing building complex of AHO in Maridalsveien 29 is currently too small to accommodate the ongoing increasing number of students and staff. The MSB studio will therefore challenge the student group to explore various possibilities for expanding the existing facility's volume with functional spaces by means of testing different structural solutions. The feasibility studies must explore and study important topics as:

Thorough analyzes of site, existing building facility, structures, climate shell and technical installations
New building volume additions to a listed building complex
Impact on the nearby urban fabric and the Akerselva landscape area
various structural materiality and principles impact on architectural quality customized for different use and program for a building over time.
Noise, silence, sun and daylight conditions
Flexibility, generality for different programs
Accessibility, universal design
Fire safety and escape conditions
View and transparency
Structures, and material use
Investigation of gentle construction methods
Energy, resource use, resilience

Learning outcome

Knowledge about:

how to explore, create and organize good architectural additions in a given context on to an existing listed building complex
how to deal with different structural materials and loadbearing principles
how to deal with the building physics challenges, physical structure and materiality
how strategies of fire security and acoustic implications can inform structural organization of different spaces and detailing of architectural building elements.

Skills:
Being able to discuss, consider and explore:

spatial and tactile qualities within a holistic architectural concept
various structural materiality and principles impact on architectural quality customized for different use and program for a building over time
a building envelope designfor new additional building volumes with a declared relationship to the existing architecture
architectural expression and materiality in relation to an actual location context

Being able to document and present a conclusive and comprehensive and sustainable architectural project on an actual plot through excellent illustrations and a physical model.

General competence:

Being able to apply the acquired knowledge about structures, spaces and building shape envelope into sustainable architecture.

Working and learning activities

The studio will be carried through with a main emphasis on architectural projects to be completed in groups of 2 students. Project material is expected to be detailed using digital tools, as well as small and large scale models. Preliminary sketching and development of ideas is to be done using analogue tools. Otherwise, the course includes various activities:

initial subtasks on current topics
theme-oriented lectures
private and group input / lectures and discussions
inspection of relevant local projects
an excursion
reviews every second week
contribution with text and illustrations to a MSB coursebook in the end of the semester

It is possible to inform the study administration by an e-mail the name of your fellow student you plan to co-work with when you sign up for the course.

Curriculum

Course literature will be available in Leganto.

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Project assignment	Group	Pass / fail

Workload activity	Comment
Attendance	Participation and attendance in lectures, supervision at the desks in the studio, seminars and workshops is expected.
Excursion	Those who do not have the opportunity to participate in an excursion will be given an assignment/a project that replaces this.

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2023 Vår

40 656 Climate Form - NOW

Emnenavn på Norwegian Bokmål:

Climate Form - NOW

Credits:

Course code:

40 656

Level of study:

Master

Teaching semester:

2023 Spring

Assessment semester:

2023 Spring

Language of instruction:

English

Year:

2023

Maximum number of students:

Person in charge

Tine Hegli

Required prerequisite knowledge

Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).

Part of course series: Climate Form

The course is open to students from: Architecture

Course content

Description of the studio series

The Climate Form studio aims to equip the student with a knowledge platform where architecture is examined within a context of environmental sustainability. The studio curriculum and associated assignments will revolve around strategies for climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation and actively seek to integrate the understanding of these in form-finding processes and critical evaluation.

Deep knowledge of effects upon climate and ecology as a result of the practice of construction and the procurement of materials that forms and reshapes our physical environment is overdue as a fundamental driver for design in the Anthropocene. Resultant change in the prerequisites for design have duly created a demand for distinct changes in formal expression, a revivification of the architectural language of climate-adaptive existence. Examined through three proponents of change: Climate, Materials and Behavior, the studio seeks to engender future scenario thinking as multidimensional context to decode, integrate and react upon.

Description of studio assignments

The studio’s approach method is projective prototyping – examining typology, function, materiality and form as a result of contemporary understanding of climate change implications both regionally and globally. The main theme spring 2023 is circular design practice; reducing the environmental footprint from building materials seen in a lifecycle perspective. The material in focus; up-cycled plastics from marine industry.

The final architectural result will be a built pavilion, floating on the water by Langkaia in Bjørvika, Oslo, designed and constructed by the studio students, teachers and collaborative partners.

The pavilion will host activities revolving around the environmental collective Nordic Ocean Watch (NOW), an organization working with public outreach to increase society’s knowledge and efforts on marine plastic waste. NOW facilitate for groups and school classes to come and participate in plastic waste sorting, as well as letting the general public have access outside of manned hours.

The project is funded by Oslo Municipality, Bymiljøetaten (BYM) and is a forerunner for a larger permanent knowledge hub in Lohavn. Communication regarding environmental challenges and societal and technical solutions to marine ocean waste will extend to become part of the architectural design itself, including studies of material properties and environmental impacts, reversible construction principals and passive climatization strategies.

The studio will collaborate with Institute of design (GK4/Stein Killi) on the actual prototyping of plastic building elements and have involved several industrial partners to participate in the process with the aim to give AHO a role as a laboratory; a testbed for architectural explorations that can further inform our industry. NOW is involved in a network of organizations with similar initiatives both nationally and internationally, and has the ambition is to establish knowledge hubs in several locations along the Nordic coastlines.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

Knowledge on the political agenda in relation to climate mitigation and adaption – nationally and internationally.
Knowledge on climate mitigation design strategies to lower up-front carbon emissions, assessment of material properties and environmental impacts, circular design strategies and use of lifecycle methodology as a design tool (LCAs).
Knowledge on external climate design strategies, including scenario-based visualization representing the present state in relation to projected futures, weather situations, risks and opportunities.
Knowledge on Internal climate design strategies, including passive heating, cooling, ventilation and daylight.

Skills:

Assessing environmentally sound design results, learning to integrate in-depth materials investigations and big-data climate studies as parameters in the form-finding process.

General competence:

Conceptual models and drawings, physical models to scale, 3D models, 2D drawing 1:200 – 1:20, 1:1 construction drawings and building process.

Working and learning activities

The teacher team running the course are practice oriented, represents architects and engineers and cover a broad approach to the topic of sustainable architecture. The studio set-up is based on involvement with external collaborators, both with initiative takers, the municipality and relevant industry partners as active partners.

Lecture series:

Materials - LCA
Climate - External and Internal
Behavior – Context and Program
Additional guest lecturers (4 pr semester)

The teaching resources will conduct lecture series running throughout the full semester accompanied by tasks and tutorials for the use of tools/methods to validate design results. Preparation material for both lecture series in the form of literature, reports, reference projects etc is made available up-front. This to help the student group to actively participate and discuss.

Design assignments:

The semester is subdivided into several design tasks where the students actively integrate the conveyed information into design response. Tasks are both individual and group based. All sub-assignments build up to a project assignment, in this case a common project for the full group of students executed full scale.

There will be bi-weekly pin-ups in plenum, weekly individual and group supervision, student-to-student feedback session. Internal and external examiner will be present at midterm and final review. An individual report on a focused topic and associated tool/method will be part of the final review.

Excursions:

There will be excursions to relevant industrial collaborators as well as abroad to see/meet competence hubs within the field of circular design.

Curriculum

Course literature will be available in Leganto.

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Project assignment	-	Pass / fail

Workload activity	Comment
Attendance	Participation and attendance in lectures, supervision at the desks in the studio, seminars and workshops is expected.
Excursion	Those who do not have the opportunity to participate in an excursion will be given an assignment/a project that replaces this.

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60 409 Urban theory: Current theories in urbanism

Emnenavn på Norwegian Bokmål:

Urban theory: Current theories in urbanism

Credits:

Course code:

60 409

Level of study:

Master

Teaching semester:

2023 Spring

Assessment semester:

2023 Spring

Language of instruction:

English

Year:

2023

Maximum number of students:

Person in charge

Jonny Aspen

Required prerequisite knowledge

Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).

The course is open to students from: Architecture, Design and Landscape Architecture

Course content

The course focuses on current theories in urbanism, with a special emphasis on how to understand the contemporary city in terms of urban development and socio-cultural features. The overall emphasis of the course will be to read and discuss a selection of texts that present new theoretical perspectives on the current urban condition. We will also, related to the various theoretical topics, visit a selection of exemplary sites in Oslo.

Priority is given to cross-disciplinary approaches and to theoretical perspectives that seek to interrelate issues of planning and design with social and cultural issues. The course can be combined with or prepare for master studios at Institute of urbanism and landscape. The course also has general relevance for architecture and design students interested in the relationship between architecture and societal developments.

Learning outcome

Knowledge: The students shall acquire knowledge about a selection of important issues and theoretical positions within contemporary urbanism.

Skills: The students will acquire skills in critical reflection about contemporary urban development as well as in a selection of methods and approaches in urban research.

Competence: The students will acquire competence in urban theory and research that prepares them to write up a paper about a current issue in urbanism.

Working and learning activities

The course consists of a series of lectures, curriculum readings and seminar discussions related to current theories in urbanism. Students are expected to make presentations of a selection of curriculum readings.

Students will also be introduced to methods and tools for conducting field work studies. Related to this, the students will be given shorter assignments, for instance related to site visits.

Students are expected to read a selection of the curriculum for each weekly session. The students will also be given the task of preparing seminar presentations (1-2 times) based on the curriculum. They are also expected to carry out shorter field work assignments (3-4 times). Presentations and assignments are compulsory. The students are expected to write up a final paper (8–10 pages) over an optional theme within the overall course topic.

Curriculum

Course literature will be available in Leganto.

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Project assignment	Individual	Pass / fail

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40 419 Elements of Architecture:The Ceiling

Emnenavn på Norwegian Bokmål:

Elements of Architecture:The Ceiling

Credits:

Course code:

40 419

Level of study:

Master

Teaching semester:

2023 Spring

Assessment semester:

2023 Spring

Language of instruction:

English

Year:

2023

Maximum number of students:

Person in charge

Mari Hvattum

Required prerequisite knowledge

Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).

Part of course series: OCCAS: The Art of Collecting Architecture

The course is open to students from: Architecture, Design and Landscape Architecture

Course content

This is the first in a series of master seminars that looks at the history of building elements and architectural motifs. The first seminar (spring 2023) is dedicated to the ceiling. Ceilings are eminent examples of how architectural motifs persist through different materials and techniques, times and places. Looking particularly at the coffered ceiling and its reinterpretations from antiquity to the present, we study the technical, tectonic, material, and iconographic translations of the coffer and other ceiling motifs through architectural history.

The seminar consists of lectures, reading seminars and field trips, ending in an exhibition at the end of the semester.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

-In-depth knowledge of architectural transformation processes and particular historical cases

Skills:

-Academic reading and writing; exhibition curation

General competence:

-Increased understanding of architecture’s history and material practices

Working and learning activities

The course consists of lectures, reading seminars, and field trips. Focusing on specific cases, each students study the history and trajectory of particular ceilingsand ceiling motifs. The cases will be displayed as an exhibition at the end of the semester.

Field trips / Excursion

The course will include a number of local field trips as well as one voluntary trip to Vienna to see the ceiling of Adolf Loos’ American Bar (among several others).

Curriculum

Course literature will be available in Leganto.

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)	-	Pass / fail	The course is assessed on the basis of seminar presentations, case studies, and contribution to the final exhibition.

Workload activity	Comment
Attendance	Students are expected to attend all course days and be active participants in the seminar activities.

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40 417 Transformation in Practice

Emnenavn på Norwegian Bokmål:

Transformation in Practice

Credits:

Course code:

40 417

Level of study:

Master

Teaching semester:

2023 Spring

Assessment semester:

2023 Spring

Language of instruction:

English

Year:

2023

Maximum number of students:

Person in charge

Amandine Kastler

Required prerequisite knowledge

Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).

Part of course series: Transformation in Practice

The course is open to students from: Architecture

Course content

The field of preservation and transformation has long been consigned to the fringes of contemporary architecture. However, a paradigm shift is occurring across the discipline. This is emphasized by the awarding of the Pritzker Prize to Lacaton Vassal, with their motto: “Never demolish, never remove or replace, always add, transform and reuse.”

This seminar will provide a framework to practice as an architect, with a focus on working with existing buildings. Students will be introduced to practitioners that work with our existing building stock, both in Norway and internationally, from the restoration of listed buildings, to the transformation of existing buildings, to the reuse of building elements.

The building industry and the laws that govern it have traditionally been geared towards the construction of new buildings, but in this seminar, students will also learn about the regulatory and legal frameworks that govern the reuse of existing buildings. Gaining a knowledge of these frameworks is integral to general practice and key to the realization of an architectural project.

Learning outcome

Introductory knowledge of:

The role of regional cultural heritage authorities
Building regulations, particularly in relation to existing buildings
Drawing scales and types in relation to project stages

Skills:

Documenting and surveying existing buildings
Assessing historic significance
Locating and understanding planning documents
Writing planning dispensations

General competence:

Students will learn to situate the emerging field of transformation in relation to their own aspirations for future practice and gain basic competence in processes that are integral to general practice.

Working and learning activities

The seminar will be organized in modules covering the topics listed in the learning outcomes guided by lectures and discussions with professionals from the field. Students will produce a report speculating on the potential future transformation of a case study. Coursework will include survey work and resolving fictional scenarios drawn from real situations in practice.

The seminar is not only relevant for students wanting to work in with existing buildings but also those wanting to gain knowledge of general practice. During the duration of the semester students will engage with contemporary architects, conservation architects, planning authorities, heritage authorities, and others working within the building industry. Lectures and excursions will support and supplement students' individual case study analysis.

The elective will be closely linked to the practice work of Kastler Skjeseth Architects

Curriculum

Course literature will be available in Leganto.

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)	-	Pass / fail	As per the course description, each student will be required to produce and present a concise report on a given case study. Reports will include drawn and written material required when developing an architectural project in practice. Areas of study will include several of the topics listed in the learning outcomes. Students are expected to execute the assignment with care, precision and professionality. Assignments will be evaluated on the level of research and quality of the execution, as well as an ability to synthesize knowledge gained in the seminar and apply it to a case study. In preparation for the final submission, students will be required to submit several shorter assignments during the semester. Each submission will contribute to the final report and assessment. The final review will take place during elective week. At the final review, students give a public presentation of their report. There will be no assessment of reports not presented at the final review.

Workload activity	Comment
Attendance	The seminar requires a full day of attendance on Tuesdays and a full week of attendance during the elective week. In addition, students are expected to work on independent research and complete assignments in their own time. Students are expected to attend all meetings and be active contributors to the course.

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60 412 Landscapes in print

Emnenavn på Norwegian Bokmål:

Landscapes in print

Credits:

Course code:

60 412

Level of study:

Master

Teaching semester:

2023 Spring

Assessment semester:

2023 Spring

Language of instruction:

English

Year:

2023

Maximum number of students:

Person in charge

Luis Callejas

Required prerequisite knowledge

Admission to AHO’s Master programme in Architecture or Landscape Architecture.

Knowledge in basic Adobe InDesign.

Open to Architect students, Landscape Architect students

Course content

The Oslo School of Architecture is recognized for instigating and safeguarding a particular sensitivity to landscape. Originally as a unique and enduring way to engage with architecture, and more recently, as a sensitivity that evolved into a landscape architecture program.

When we discuss landscape as a medium for design at the school, what kind of print visual material and references do we often use? What do we own in the library and our archives that contribute to making our school special regarding the intimate relationship between architecture and landscape? Is it possible to discuss this unique aspect of the school just by judging what we own in the library?

Learning outcome

Research methods that introduce students to notions of impact and quality based on the material we can find in the library.

Learning about drawings and graphic representations as meaningful intellectual contributions.

Learning to compare different printed sources and understand the nature of design publishing, including the endurance of ideas in print.

Learning about how landscape is represented in print, and how some drawings endure and become canonical documents.

Basic techniques for discerning and organizing graphic material found in print sources

Knowledge:
The students will acquire the knowledge necessary to effectively engage in historic graphic research with a focus on landscape architecture and landscape representation

Skills:
Research techniques. Organizing print material, critically discussing the work of other designers

General competence:
Researche

Working and learning activities

Weekly meetings in the AHO library around the printed material that the students find in each session. The meetings are open discussions indented to find more material and expand the sources to be discussed in the following session.

Half of the designers to be researched are suggested by Luis Callejas at the beginning of the semester. In contrast, the other half is discovered over the multiple visits to the library. At the end of the semester, the course will produce a compilation of the best and most interesting landscape representations and descriptions available in the AHO library. In addition, we will propose a new wish list for library acquisitions.

Excursion:
There will be one excursion to an important archive. Tentative archives are Drawing Matter (UK) and virtual visits to CCA (Montreal) To be confirmed

Curriculum

Link to course literature will be registered in Leganto

Mandatory coursework	Courseworks required	Presence required	Comment
Presence required		Required

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Report	Individual	Pass / fail	Course attendance and participation 50%, final report 50%

Start semester

60 160

Emnenavn på Norwegian Bokmål:

GK6 By og Arkitektur

Credits:

Course code:

60 160

Level of study:

Bachelor

Teaching semester:

2023 Spring

Assessment semester:

2023 Spring

Language of instruction:

Norwegian

Year:

2023

Person in charge

Andreas Kalstveit

Required prerequisite knowledge

Bestått alle emner i GK1 og GK2.

Bestått studiodelen av GK3 og GK4.

Gjennomført (dvs. fått godkjent eventuelle arbeidskrav, ha oppfylt eventuelle krav til oppmøte og levert inn besvarelse til vurdering) i øvrige emner GK3, GK4 og hele GK5.

Course content

6. semester utgjør overgangen til masterstudiet, som i større grad enn grunnundervisningen preges av individuelle valg og faglig spesialisering. Dette skal reflekteres både i oppgavestilling og undervisningsform på GK6. Studioet inneholder aspekter fra de øvrige semestrene i grunnundervisningen, og er ment å samle og videreutvikle allerede tilegnet fagkunnskap. I tillegg skal studioet styrke studentenes teoretiske kompetanse og evne til fagdiskusjon som del av et individuelt prosjektforløp. Studioet reflekterer kompleksiteten i arkitektfaget sett som praksisform, hvor en gitt oppgave kan være preget av ulike faglige innfallsvinkler og ha mange mulige formsvar. Oppgaven som stilles vektlegger undersøkelse og avveining av til dels motsetningsfylte faktorer i en kompleks bykontekst, hvor møtet mellom program, struktur og morfologi skal formuleres i et større arkitekturprosjekt.

Learning outcome

Etter endt kurs har studentene opparbeidet kunnskap om, og vise ferdigheter i: 1. Å arbeide selvstendig med et arkitekturprosjekt i urban kontekst, basert på enn gitt tomt og delvis gitt program. 2. Å utvikle en reflektert og kritisk holdning til plankrav, program og arkitektonisk/urban kontekst. 3. Å utvikle romlige konsepter og kunne ta avgjørelser basert på komplekse og ofte motsetningsfylte urbane og arkitektoniske behov.

Working and learning activities

Studiet vil være basert på prosjekteringsprosesser knyttet til en gitt problemstilling og kontekst. Studentene vil arbeide med å utvikle en egen innfallsvinkel til oppgaven gjennom analyse og tematiske studier. Basert på dette, vil studentene individuelt utarbeide et arkitekturprosjekt. Det vil gjennomføres delgjennomganger, individuell prosjektveiledning og workshops i tillegg til avsluttende gjennomgang.

Curriculum

Pensum vil finnes på kursets hylle i biblioteket ved kursoppstart. Tekster vil også ligge på moodle.

Mandatory coursework	Courseworks required	Presence required	Comment
Exercise		Not required

Form of assessment	Grouping	Grading scale	Comment
Project assignment	Individual	Pass / fail

Workload activity	Comment
Attendance
Excursion

Form of assessment:	Project assignment
Grouping:	-
Grading scale:	Pass / fail
Comment:

Form of assessment:	Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)
Grouping:	-
Grading scale:	Pass / fail
Comment:	The course is assessed on the basis of: -Semester project Individual studio work on your own selected project developed throughout the course and critically reflected / presented on a final deliverable. This entails practical and theoretical exercises, visual and verbal project presentations, and the making of a final exhibition. -Process book with a text/essay. For each of the reviews, assignments are announced and students hand in visual and textual works which is complementary to the actual physical work made available and presented in the reviews. The final exhibition includes visual haptic project material and a final book (including an essay of ca 5-10000 words).

Form of assessment:	Project assignment
Grouping:	Group
Grading scale:	Pass / fail
Comment:

Form of assessment:	Project assignment
Grouping:	-
Grading scale:	Pass / fail
Comment:

Form of assessment:	Project assignment
Grouping:	Individual
Grading scale:	Pass / fail
Comment:

Languages

2023 Vår

Start semester

12 400 Pre-diploma

Start semester

40 654 ACDL; Superstructures

Start semester

40 655 Animism in Architecture

Start semester

40 657 MSB - Spatial extension AHO

Start semester

40 656 Climate Form - NOW

Start semester

60 409 Urban theory: Current theories in urbanism

Start semester

40 419 Elements of Architecture:The Ceiling

Start semester

40 417 Transformation in Practice

Start semester

60 412 Landscapes in print

Start semester

60 160

Pages

Workload activity:	Attendance
Comment:	Participation and attendance in lectures, supervision at the desks in the studio, seminars and workshops is expected.

Mandatory coursework:	Presence required
Courseworks required:
Presence required:	Required
Comment: