Landscape architecture in Northern Norway
The Historical Archive of Norwegian Landscape architecture, affiliated to the Department of Landscape Architecture at NMBU, is situated 35 km southeast of Oslo in Southern Norway. Some people may wonder […]
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Den internasjonale arkivdagen
På den Internasjonale Arkivdagen 9. juni markerer fagfolk verden over betydningen av arkivene. Vi bruker denne dagen til å se tilbake på resultatene som er oppnådd siden arbeidet med Historisk […]
Using Archives in the Teaching of Freehand Drawing
This article invites the reader to think about how archive material can be used in the teaching of freehand drawing for landscape architecture students. We hope this provides inspiration for […]
European Network of Landscape Architecture Archives NELA
European Network of Landscape Architecture Archives A milestone event in the history of landscape architecture took place on 18 September 2019, when eight European landscape architecture archives joined forces to […]
Increasing academic interests to the Historical Archive of Norwegian Landscape Architecture
A scholarly visit from the United States. Since the first blog articles published in 2018 and the exhibition in the National Museum of Architecture in Oslo early this year, the […]
Historical Archive of Norwegian Landscape Architecture in an Exhibition in the National Museum – Architecture
2019 is 100 years since landscape architecture was taught for the first time in Ås Norway. The National Museum – Architecture in collaboration with the School of Landscape Architecture at […]
Works of Morten R. Grindaker (1925-2017) – a reflection of the Norwegian landscape architecture in the 1960s
The period between the 1950s and 1970s is seen as the “golden age” of Norwegian industry. Industrialisation created prosperity and paved economic foundation for a welfare state (Wikipedia). During this […]
Landscape Architects in building hydroelectric power stations in Norway
Landscape architects’ involvement in the building of hydroelectric power stations and the related large-scale landscape projects since the 1950s marks the shift of the discipline from garden architecture to landscape […]
The Memory of a Discipline
The Archive of Norwegian Landscape Architecture represents significant values for the disciplines, for design processes and for society in general. Recently, I listened to a conversation between a profiled landscape […]
Public Park Policy and Modernism in Norwegian Landscape Architecture
The collection of Eyvind Strøm (1899-1988) During the 19th century, Norway experienced a rapid economic, political and social development. This had a great impact on its capital city Oslo. The […]