Øvre Ullern Terrace designed by Oslo house builder Selvaag with architects Anne Tinne and Mogens Kielland Friis, in the early ‘60s marks the outset of a little studied hill-housing tradition in Oslo. Whilst Selvaag developed the stepped terraced block into its staple housing type up until the housing crash of the late ‘80s and range of individual architects appropriated the Low Rise Hill-housing typology in different ways to create a variety of new and interesting schemes across Oslo. Their scattered location, the various architects involved (Per Bøhn, Knut Sohøel, Finn Liseth, to name a few) have prompted little study of these projects or those who produced them. Building on the current focus on Low Rise Hill housing in the UK and Europe students on the course will learn about and carry out archival research and site-studies of the known projects and look for yet unidentified examples from the period. The insights this provides into the community focused design of these schemes will then be developed through interview with surviving architects/relatives and the members of the communities in their individual projects to understand how their design has translated into a place to live.