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Barbara Elisabeth Ascher
”MER EN TAK OVER HODET”– PERSPECTIVES ON
AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN OSLO FROM 1945–1995
FUNDER:
HERA JOINT RESEARCH PROGRAMME
(AHRC, AKA, DASTI, ETF, FNR, FWF, HAZU, IRCHSS,
MHEST, NWO, RANNIS, RCN, VR AND THE EUROPE-
AN COMMUNITY 7TH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
2007-2013, UNDER THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC
SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES PROGRAMME)
SUPERVISOR: Christian Hermansen Cordua
The research examines the production of affordable
housing in Oslo from the period of pressing housing
shortage after WW II, when social housing provision
was seen as an essential part of the welfare state, to
a period of deregulation in the 1980s, when afforda-
ble housing was provided by the market. The research
thus investigates, how housing policies have affect-
ed affordable housing architecture in Oslo between
1945 and 1995. In order to grasp and assess significant
changes in affordable housing architecture, the study
examines several cases of large-scale social housing
projects at different times of the study period and dis-
cusses how different conceptions of affordable housing
have influenced the production of these projects during
the study period.
Nina Edwards Anker
MEDIATING SUNLIGHT: SENSING SOLAR CELLS
FUNDER:
AHO
SUPERVISOR: Bjørn Sandaker
This dissertation work began with the hypothesis that
photovoltaic technology could be used as an affective
element of design. In order for photovoltaic panels
to become fully accepted as a building material, they
must be included in design according to parameters
that look beyond cost and energy efficiencies. Through
the fabrication of physical prototypes, I investigate
solar panels as perceptual devices for mediating sun-
light. I describe and discuss the essential structure of
an encounter with a solar design artifact that is of affec-
tive interest or not.
Barbro Grude Eikseth
ARCHITECTS IN THE MAKING – IDEALS AND
DESIGN METHODS IN NORWEGIAN ARCHITECTURE
EDUCATION 2009-2012.
FUNDER:
AHO
SUPERVISORS: Oddrun Sæter (HiOA), Tarald Lundevall
(AHO Snøhetta)
The PhD project is a qualitative study of contempo-
rary Norwegian architecture education. It questions
what kind of professional positions role models, design
methods and ideals the students of architecture are
developing during their education. This is seen from
a communication perspective. What kind of knowl-
edge and attitudes do students develop in relation to
the needs of clients and users? The project is multi-
disciplinary and crosses the disciplines of sociology of
architect, theory of professions and educational theo-
ries of learning.
Lisbeth Funck
PROPERTIES OF ARCHITECTURE
FUNDER:
AHO
SUPERVISORS: Anders Abraham, Mari Lending
Properties of Architecture is a practice-based research
that springs out of an interest in understanding, exem-
plifying and displaying what designates the architec-
ture in a structure. By a thoroughly study of four build-
ings; San Carlo alle Quattro Fontana (1634) in Rome by
Francesco Borromini,
Casa del Fascio (1936) in Como
by Giuseppe Terragni
, Die Neue National Galerie in
Berlin (1967) by Mies van der Rohe and 21st Century
Museum of Modern Art in Kanasawa (2004) by SAN-
AA, I discuss, in different media; physical models,
drawings, painting, film, photo and text, the properties
of architecture.
Ongoing PhD Projects
AHO WORKS RESEARCH 2012
Architecture
