Norwegian Garden Cities

This book deals with the legacy of Norway’s garden cities. It tracks the origins of the Norwegian garden city movement and discusses the current status of built examples. Through a detailed study of one example, Sinsen Garden City in Oslo, the book links the garden city heritage to a number of ongoing scholarly debates on topics like densification, sustainability, socio-economic conditions, life quality and neighborhood satisfaction. While the garden city can be criticized for its association with sprawl and its failure to deliver affordable housing for all, it has gained new momentum as a green, resilient resource in light of theoretical platforms like garden ecology and circular heritage. A key argument in the book is that the garden city is a pioneering example of a serious commitment to the environmental cause through architecture and planning. It is a reminder of the importance of environmental awareness today, not least because it accentuates the climate crisis through changing conditions for gardening in the summer and skiing in the winter. A garden city may have its faults and inadequacies, especially in regard to housing prices and social exclusion, but the overall conclusion is that it represents a valuable legacy with endurable qualities that cities will be needing in the future too

Norwegian Garden Cities

This book deals with the legacy of Norway’s garden cities. It tracks the origins of the Norwegian garden city movement and discusses the current status of built examples. Through a detailed study of one example, Sinsen Garden City in Oslo, the book links the garden city heritage to a number of ongoing scholarly debates on topics like densification, sustainability, socio-economic conditions, life quality and neighborhood satisfaction. While the garden city can be criticized for its association with sprawl and its failure to deliver affordable housing for all, it has gained new momentum as a green, resilient resource in light of theoretical platforms like garden ecology and circular heritage. A key argument in the book is that the garden city is a pioneering example of a serious commitment to the environmental cause through architecture and planning. It is a reminder of the importance of environmental awareness today, not least because it accentuates the climate crisis through changing conditions for gardening in the summer and skiing in the winter. A garden city may have its faults and inadequacies, especially in regard to housing prices and social exclusion, but the overall conclusion is that it represents a valuable legacy with endurable qualities that cities will be needing in the future too

Reusing Stadiums for a Greener Future: The Circular Design Potential of Football Architecture

Since the turn of the new Millennium, there has been an increase in efforts to build environmental-friendly sports arenas around the world. Fuelled by large sporting events like the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the ‘Green Games,’ and the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, stadium architecture has become a vehicle for this trend. So far, the emphasis has primarily been on new arenas, in line with the widespread belief in international architecture of the 2000s that older buildings are less energy-efficient by default. In addition to that comes a conviction that newness is needed to attract sponsors, investors, and larger audiences—a position powered by commercial interest and the idea of the stadium as an ‘urban generator.’ While new stadiums may have a significant potential when it comes to green performability, that does not necessarily mean that older stadiums are surplus to requirements, even from a climate perspective. In this paper, we look critically at the well-established strategy of replacing old stadiums with new ones by questioning the climate impact of new arenas and investigating the reuse potential of existing ones. We carry out in-depth analysis of two existing stadiums, Tynecastle Park in Edinburgh and Stadio Flaminio in Rome. One of them has already gone through renovation to remain in use while the other is vacant but currently under way to be renovated. We bring in fresh perspectives from sports science, preservation, architecture, and circular design theory to explain why older stadiums become obsolete and to challenge the premise of that destiny. The aim is not only to scrutinize the general lack of reuse but also to highlight green strategies which could give existing stadiums a longer life

Reflecting Histories and Directing Futures

This anthology is the proceedings publication from the 2017 NAF Symposium "Reflecting Histories and Directing Futures”.The book discusses how the concept of the future has been expressed and understood in and by architecture in recent history, and in what way this understanding has shaped architectural discourse. It reflects on the agency of architecture and the visions and histories of different design cultures and their hegemony in society.For free downloading:http://arkitekturforskning.net/na/issue/publishin

Agenda: Kunsten i byen, byen i kunsten

Videopptak av forelesningerKunsten i byen, byen i kunsten: Om det felles eide og kunst i offentlig rom. Denne gangen er Agenda Kunst og håndverk et samarbeid med Kunstnernes hus med utgangspunkt i utstillingen "Det felles eide - Oslo kommunes kunstsamling". Utstillingen Det felles eide tar for seg kunstens funksjon i offentlig rom og hvordan byen erfares i kunsten. Samspillet mellom kunst, arkitektur, byrom og byens befolkning gir oss en fortelling om utviklingen av Oslo som moderne storby. Gjennom verk fra kommunens samling fra slutten av 1800-tallet til i dag, forteller utstillingen en historie om kunstens betydning for den urbane utviklingen og hva «det felles eide» impliserer; sosialt, politisk og kulturelt. I løpet av dagen vil kunstnere, kunst- og arkitekturhistorikere og kuratorer reflektere rundt kunstens betydning for byen og omvendt, i fortid, nåtid og fremtid. Vi vil få høre om Oslo kommunes kunstsamling i en historisk kontekst, om bevaring av offentlig kunst, og om utviklingen av Oslo som kulturby. Kunstnere vil dele sin erfaring av å arbeide med byen som tematikk, og hvordan de opplever å være kunstprodusenter i Oslo dag. Vi vil høre om den banebrytende utstillingen Byen i mennesket (Kunstnernes Hus 1968) og få en presentasjon av Oslo Biennal, som er kommunens storsatsning fremover. Seminaret er et samarbeid mellom Lotte Konow Lund, professor ved Kunst og håndverk på KHiO, kurator Elisabeth Byre og Kunstnernes Hus. Program: -Introduksjon ved Anne Hilde Neset/ Kunstnernes hus. -Introduksjon ved Ellen Aslaksen -Ingebjørg Ydstie: Introduksjon til Oslo kommunes kunstsamling og Det felles eide. -Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk: Introduksjon til Oslo Biennial 2019. -Ingrid Lønningdal: Om egen praksis. -Jon Benjamin Tallerås: Om egen praksis. -Martin Braathen: Om utstillingen Byen i mennesket (Kunstnernes Hus, 1968). -Morten Krohg i samtale med Martin Braathen. -Even Smith Wergeland: Kunst som offentlig anliggende: byplaner og byrom. -Natalie Hope O’Donnell: Refleksjon rundt kunsten i byen, byen i kunsten