Architecture and Design: Sweden & Norway
Courses
If you are a student in one of the following courses, then you will go on this tour:
- Architectural Design Studio
- Architecture Foundations Studio
- Interior Architecture Studio
- Scandinavian Design and Architecture: History, Theory and Practice
- Urban Design Studio
Objectives
- Study contemporary and historic Scandinavian architecture and landscape architecture
- Understand how design shapes human experience through the manipulation of light, material, spatial proportion and sequence, and integration of landscape and architecture
- Develop sketching and note-taking skills for recording impressions of sites in a journal
Previous Activities Have Included
- Visiting Snøhetta's architecture office and their new Opera House in Oslo
- Examining interpretation and adaptation of historical context in Gunnar Asplund's Göteborg Town Hall and Sverre Fehn's Hedmark Museum and National Museum of Architecture in Norway
- Exploring the archipelago landscape of fjords and mountains
Description
The long study tour to Sweden and Norway forms an integral part of the studio curriculum by exposing students to high-quality historic and modern architecture and urbanism in Scandinavia. Students see city spaces and significant buildings in Göteborg and Oslo, as well as architectural patterns of inhabitation in the landscape of the archipelago. Particular emphasis is given to Norway's role at the forefront of new Scandinavian architecture, and to exceptional examples of adaptive re-use.
The tour sites, as sensory architectural experiences, provide students the opportunity to develop their critical observation skills and diagrammatic and representational proficiency. Simultaneously, the students are equipped with a vocabulary of design concepts, strategies, and materials, which can then be applied in their own creative work in studio and beyond.
