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’ 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 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 […]
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 […]
The collection of student works in the Archive of Norwegian Landscape Architecture starts around 1900 and continues until 1980s. This post presents only a small part of the first 60 […]
Torborg Zimmer Frölich’s significant contribution to Norwegian garden art with projects on villa gardens and several large parks is little known. Frölich was a great artist in working with the […]
The collection of Pål Sæland (1897-1979) Planning and designing cemeteries and graveyards became a new task for garden architects in the early 1900s. According to professionals such as Olav Moen […]
The collection of Magne Bruun (1932-2018) The collection of ‘Historical gardens and parks in Norway’ was the starting point for the Archive of Norwegian Landscape Architecture. Professor Magne Bruun established […]
Karen Reistad was a pioneer in Norwegian landscape architecture and a key figure in the development of the profession in Norway after the war. She got her education from the […]
Pioneer in Norwegian Landscape Architecture Olav L. Moen (1887-1951) made the most important contribution to the development of the academic discipline of landscape architecture in Norway in the first half of […]