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The Architecture of the Urban Project

Mujezinović, Mirza
Doctoral thesis, Peer reviewed
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2016-10-04
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Abstract
“The Architecture of the Urban Project” is about large-scale architecture in

Norway. Projects that potentially fall into this category are those that blur the

distinction between the city and the building, more specifically projects such

as new universities, urban redevelopments and waterfront transformations.

Usually, such projects have one investor (either public or private) and

consist of several building volumes developed in stages, where each stage is

interdependent of the totality, being able to function both on its own and within

the framework of the whole project.

The research addresses how large-scale architecture evolved from the late

1960s up to the early 1980s in Norway. From the societal perspective, this

period represents shifting economic, political and technological realities. The

post-war reconstruction had ended; the process of modernization had made

itself increasingly present, and the process of democratization had become

gradually more absorbed within the framework of decision-making, especially

within the planning and building sector with the new building law of 1965. From

the architecture culture perspective, it is the period of critique of modernism,

representing the emergence of interest for the traditional (European) city as

explicated through the processes of revitalization and densification. Working

within and learning from the existing urban context would emerge both as a

constraint and as a source of inspiration for practicing architects.

The research revolves around the question: to what degree does a specific

type of architectural and urbanistic sensibility emerge due to the changing

societal condition and its subsequent (large-scale) building assignments in

the above-mentioned period? The notion of sensibility refers to interplay

between a general architectural and urbanistic discourse on one side, and

architects’ ability both to comprehend complexities around and within building

assignments, and to translate these complexities into physical structures, on

the other side.

The primary source for this study is large-scale projects in Norway:

Henning Larsen’s University of Trondheim, Platou’s Vaterland and Telje-TorpAasen’s

Aker Brygge. In other words, this research is a monograph about one

particular type of projects within one specific period.
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CON-TEXT. PhD thesis; 80
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