conference program
May 24th – 29th 2008
Sunday May 25th 2008
10.00-17.00 Registration / Market place
The Administration Building
Kristian Augustgt 23
10.00-13.00 Board meeting
The Architectural Museum
Board only
10.00-13.00 SAR meeting
The Administration Building
10.00-13.00 Gaudi meeting
The Administration Building
14.00-17.00 The City Core and the Harbour
A guided city walk along the harbour, through Akershus Fortress (partly medieval, partly renaissance) to the new Ministry of Defence building, a sensitive infill in a demanding historic context.
19.00 Conference Opening and Reception at Oslo City Hall
The City of Oslo is inviting us into its grandest hall decorated by huge fresco murals. This is where the Nobel Peace Prize is rewarded every December.
Fabian Stang, Mayor
Ulf Grønvold, Senior curator the National Museum
Dietmar Steiner, icam president
Monday May 26th 2008
08.00 – 19.00 Registration / Market place
08.30 – 09.30 Introductory Session: The Nordic Experience
The Administration Building
What characterizes the most Northern country in the world? A brief introduction to Norwegian landscape, history and architectural development.
Departure by bus from Tullinløkka
10.00-11.00 The Viking Ship Museum
A short meeting with three 1200 years old – and very elegant – Viking ships.
11.00-12.30 The Norwegian Museum of Cultural History
One of the two first open air museums in the world.
13.00-14.00 Lunch
The Administration Building
14.00-14.20 Lecture: Interpreting the roots
Departure by bus from Tullinløkka
14.30-16.30 Wooden architecture
Is there a continuing line from the old farm houses to contemporary Norwegian architecture? A bus tour up on the Holmenkollen hill to see Dragon style buildings and new wooden architecture.
Coffee break
16.45-18.45 Session 1: Collecting Architecture
Marc Treib, University of California, will chair the session. He writes: “Although objects, furniture, and fragments have long been a part of architectural collections and exhibitions, we tend to focus on accumulating their surrogates: drawings, models, written descriptions. As a complement to these concerns this session will address the issues of dealing with buildings in pieces or as wholes, the reasons behind their collecting, the challenges of their cataloguing and display, and practices for their preservation.”
20.00- 22.00 The Architectural Museum
A visit and reception. The building is probably the last work by Sverre Fehn. Opens early 2008.
Tuesday May 27th 2008
08.30 Departure by bus from Tullinløkka
10.30-11.30 Hedmark Museum
A one day bus excursion. If time permits, we will stop on the way to see recent architecture. The museum, situated next to the lake Mjøsa, 100 km North of Oslo, is a major work by Sverre Fehn. The protective glass structure (by Lund and Slaatto) over the medieval cathedral ruins is also noteworthy.
11.30-12.30 Lunch
Hamarstua spiseri
12.30-14.30 Session 2: Architectural Museums and Architectural education
Barry Bergdoll, Moma, will chair the session. He writes:
“This session invites papers which reflect on the relationship between architectural education and museums and galleries devoted to architecture, both historically and in current practice. What should be collected from student work and as evidence of the evolution of pedagogy; who should collect it, and in a digital age in what form? Equally of interest are dimensions of the question of audience that always confront architectural curators: in what ways can architectural museums address both issues of importance to architectural students and to the general public?”
16.30-17.30 Gyldendal Publishing House
Back in Oslo, we will visit one more building by Sverre Fehn. This one opened in 2007.
18.00-20.00 icam subgroup on education
The Administration Building
Wednesday May 28th 2008
08.30 Departure by bus from Tullinløkka
08.30-10.30 1930s architecture
It is not so all well known internationally, but the decades between the two World Wars was a strong period in Norwegian architecture. A bus excursion to see early Modernist architecture in Oslo.
11.00-13.00 Session 3: Travelling exhibitions
The Administration Building
Peter Schmal, DAM, will chair the session. He writes:
“What are the reasons that make visitors go to the authentic museum space to actually see an architectural exhibition? What are the advantages of the physical reality that surpass those of the non-physical digital and electronic environment and make the visit of a museum a special experience, worth the extra effort of traveling and spending time and money? And in which ways does the advancement of exhibition design help foster these experiences? What is the role of the authentic piece for traveling exhibitions in our digital age?”
13.00-14.00 Lunch
Departure by bus from Tullinløkka
14.15-16.30 Post war architecture Examples from the 1960s and the recent years.
A bus excursion to see buildings by Lund and Slaatto, SverreFehn plus Jensen and Skodvin.
17.00-19.00 Session 4: Architectural book publishing
The Administration Building
Irena Murray, RIBA, will chair the session. She writes:”The session looks at the challenges faced by the world of architectural publishing and the factors that influencethe range, quality, content, typology and medium of architectural publications and shape their future. Aninternational panel of speakers will debate the influence on publishing of architecture and design issues of thnew millennium and more specifically advancing technology, graphic design and editorial input over the lastdecade.”
Thursday May 29th 2008
08.30 Departure by bus from Tullinløkka
09.00-10.00 The National Archive
Situated at the foot of the forest North of Oslo, the National Archive is a modern and well equipped institution where the archival material is kept in bomb safe tunnels into the rock. Their drawing collection is surprising and interesting.
10.30-12.30 Session 5: Selection: Between ideal and reality
Mariet Willinge, Nai, will chair the session. She writes:”Selection in architectural archives is one of the most important means to keep the collection manageable. As archives are often extensive, much energy has to be spent on management, processing and preservation, which is of course a costly affair. Costs of storage are also high. All reasons to think of selection, on reducing the size to get an archive that is better manageable, where the right records are easier to find, and where the costs of packing and storage are diminished.”
12.30-13.30 Lunch
The Administration Building
14.00-16.30 The General Assembly
Report from The Gaudi group
18.00 Boat from Honnørbrygga
A boat trip from Oslo to a charming, 1930s restaurant pavilion at the shore of Hvalstrand where the final reception will take place.
24.00 Bus back to Tullinløkka
