A Retrospective of Norwegian Architecture
Taking a closer look at aspects of Are Vesterlid’s home reveals how the often silent architect spoke through his drawings and built work. Would you live in a house of your own making? This question, often posed to architects, was clearly answered by…
Three responses to the regulations: shrinking, reusing, overlaying. As a result of its dispersed population and relatively poor economic standing, Norwegian architecture was not dictated by the stylistic changes that governed the architecture of continental Europe. Architectural innovation in Norway was typically seen through…
Perhaps we can simply say that a certain receptiveness to international planning ideas is a distinguishing feature of Nordic urban development (…) [for example] England’s New Towns were held up as ideals and adapted to the nature of suburbs like Lambertseter 1 Describing the Norwegian…
It happened in the 1930s when the Functionalism, as part of the Modernism, finally got popular after a long period of Classicism in Europe. This style of architecture stresses the value of function over form and also emphasizes the belief in progress, science and modernity.…
The Oslo University Observatory, built in 1833 by Christian Heinrich Grouch, is a remarkable building, sign of the historical and scientific importance of the city of Oslo.
I am standing in front of a wooden facade that is one story high and has no openings. There is only one door and a roof that protects from any kind of weather, like today’s rain. Villa Schreiner seems to be completely closed from the outside.…
230 square meters wood in the middle of an apple tree garden. Detached over the grassland, overhung rooms above, wide open windows from the floor to ceiling. The house I would like to write about is Villa Trikkestien, a single family house in Holtet, Oslo.…
by Alberto Ballesteros Barea and Veronica Gallina Wenche Selmer (1920-1998) was a Norwegian female architect, who mainly focused her work on residential programs. All her projects are small-scale based, either individual houses or small summer residences and cabins. The aim of our analysis was to…
by Alberto Ballesteros Barea and Jingyi Zhang. [intro] 10:30. After nearly two months trying to arrange a date, we are finally about to meet him. We step into his office, a warm and intimate space dominated by a large wall shelf and a working desk,…