INSTITUTE OF FORM, THEORY AND HISTORY
OCCAS
THE OSLO CENTRE
FOR CRITICAL
ARCHITECTURAL
STUDIES
The Oslo Centre for Critical Architectural Studies (OCCAS) is a research centre for advanced studies in
architecture. OCCAS studies the cultural significance of the built world, its historical preconditions and
its contemporary status. With a special focus on Nordic architectural culture, OCCAS looks at the built
environment as a site for cultural negotiation and contestation. With material ranging from exhibitions and
texts, to architectural processes, buildings and landscapes OCCAS insists on the contemporary relevance
of historical and theoretical research, its critical potentials, and its urgent function in understanding the
built environments of the present and the future. OCCAS provides the main forum for research develop-
ment and dissemination within the Institute of Form, Theory and History at AHO.
