Arkitektur / Architecture
Recent Submissions
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PORTAL PROPAGATIONS Reproduction, Reception, and Rediscovery in the Life of the Urnes Portal
(CON-TEXT;131, Doctoral thesis, 2025-02)The northern portal of Urnes Stave Church stands preserved within the monument overlooking a remote West-Norwegian fjord as the seemingly frozen memory of a historical past. Yet, as Portal Propagations shows, this heritage ... -
Architecture at the Building Site Challenging the Separation between Design and Construction
(CON-TEXT;128, Doctoral thesis, 2024)This thesis makes the case for an architecture that emerges through the process of construction. The research investigates how, within the context of industrialised England from 1830 to 1980, the historic separation between ... -
MATERIAL DRAMATURGY: TRACING TRAILS OF DUST IN THE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PROCESS
(CON-TEXT;124, Doctoral thesis, 2024)Following the digital turn of the 1990s, architectural practices moved into a digital world, a development that was further accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic. In this shift from analogue to digital there is a risk of ... -
On Sacred Architecture and the Dzongs of Bhutan. Tradition and Transition in the Architectural History of the Himalayas
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;13, Doctoral thesis, 2003)This thesis contributes with new insight and knowledge on the architectural traditions in Bhutan and the Himalayas, and also discusses questions relevant to architectural theory and history. In Bhutan the traditional society ... -
The Banwan Project, From Experiment to Model?
(CON-TEXT; PhD thesis;119, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Rural policies are given priority in China, and governmental and regional funding is allocated to the countryside. Chinese villages are being transformed as a partof the urbanization and modernization process as societies, ... -
Factory-made : the everyday architecture of Moelven brug, 1955-1973
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;117, Doctoral thesis, 2022)While architectural histories of post-war Norway tend to focus on the work of select signature architects, the role of construction companies and industrial producers in shaping the built environment has remained largely ... -
Å reise noe nytt og bedre : om arkitektur og politikk 1935–1940
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;116, Doctoral thesis, 2022)En politisk bevegelse med vilje til å forandre samfunnet, en velferdsstat på skissestadiet og en gruppe arkitekter i rollen som det nye samfunnets formgivere. Det er dette denne avhandlingen handler om. I 1935 dannet ... -
Becoming with Architecture
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis; 115, Doctoral thesis, 2021)Becoming with Architecture: Making the abstracted space through works and words Can spatial structure and material properties have capacity to radiate and intertwine in an architectural space? How can this radiant ... -
Timber Tales : A Qualitative Study of Timber Materiality in Housing Projects
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;112, Doctoral thesis, 2021)This qualitative study addresses how architects and residents employ, experience and value wooden building materials in housing projects, arguing that buildings that are loved last longer and thus contribute to both ... -
Sites of crisis : histories of the satellite town
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;107, Doctoral thesis, 2021)This thesis is a history of the relationship between the satellite town and the welfare state analysed through the prism of crisis. Extending the architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri’s concept of history as a project ... -
Reframing wood construction : innovation in architecture through activating material properties with the use of digital technologies
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;105, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Reframing Wood Construction. Innovation in architecture through activating material properties with the use of digital technologies. This thesis focuses on the relationships between material-centred design, digital ... -
Bislettbekken og byens fysiognomi : Kristianiaprovisorier omkring 1900
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Inhabiting the architectural envelope : a design-based research on redefining the climatic and atmospheric performances of architectural envelope
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis; 103, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Contemporary facades commonly emphasize the separation of architecture from its local context by positioning them as support zones for various optimization demands or technical requirements. This dissertation rethinks the ... -
The magazine and the city : architecture, urban life and the illustrated press in nineteenth-century Christiania
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;94, Doctoral thesis, 2018)Focusing on two illustrated periodicals, Skilling-Magazin (1835-1891) and Illustreret Nyhedsblad (1851-1866), the dissertation explores the relationships between the city and the magazine from two perspectives, investigating ... -
Apartment layouts and domestic life : the interior space and its usability : a study of Norwegian apartments built in the period 1930-2005
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;26, Doctoral thesis, 2006)The background for this study is Norwegian housing where floor plans of new apartments seem to differ significantly from what previously has been built as well as from what architects have considered good quality. The study ... -
Fra uro til utvikling : universell utforming som linse for studiet av arkitektpraksis som læringsarena
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;93, Doctoral thesis, 2018)Med et forskningsmateriale fra intervjuer og feltarbeid undersøker jeg i denne avhandlingen arkitekters handlinger og holdninger i møtet med strengere krav til universell utforming under prosjektering av kulturbygg. Jeg ... -
Barn og omgivelser : virkelighet med flere fortolkninger
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;8, Doctoral thesis, 2002)Et generelt endret syn på barns samfunnsmessige posisjon mot slutten av det 20. århundre er blant annet konstituert gjennom FN's barnekonvensjon og norsk lovgivning. Det er én bakgrunn for studien. Relatert til denne finnes ... -
Tegneskolen i Christiania : en nasjonal arkitekturutdannelse tar form
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;92, Doctoral thesis, 2017)Tegneskolen i Christiania ble opprettet i 1818 og inngår i dag i Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo. Ved Tegneskolens grunnleggelse var det ønske om at skolen skulle bli et norsk kunstakademi etter europeisk modell, en norsk skole for ... -
Architecture and rhetoric : text and design in architectural competitions, Oslo 1939-90
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Arkitekter i emning : profesjonsforståelser og brukerperspektiver i norsk arkitektutdanning 2009–2012
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;85, Doctoral thesis, 2017)Avhandlingen er en kvalitativ undersøkelse av norsk arkitektutdanning sett i et samfunnsrelatert perspektiv. Prosjektet undersøker hvilke former for profesjonsforståelse man kan finne i dagens arkitektutdanning, og hvordan ...
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