Welcome to Bergen School of Architecture

Norell/Rodhe is an architecture studio founded by Daniel Norell and Einar Rodhe. The studio views architecture as a cultural practice, and each project seeks to unfold narratives and enter into conversations with the city and its inhabitants. Their work ranges from competition winning schemes for cultural buildings and landscapes, to interiors and installations. Completed projects include a conversion of an historical navy building for the Royal Institute of Art on the island of Skeppsholmen in Stockholm. The studio frequently participates in publications and exhibitions and their work has been included in group shows at Aedes Architecture Forum, ArkDes, Bildmuseet, the Bruges Triennial 2024, Färgfabriken, the 2019 Oslo Architecture Triennale, the 2018 and 2023 Venice Architecture Biennales, and at Yale University School of Architecture. Norell/Rodhe teaches, lectures and pursues research in Sweden as well as internationally.

Daniel Norell studied architecture at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg (PhD), at University of California Los Angeles (MArch), at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and at TU Delft. He has previously worked for Greg Lynn FORM, Zaha Hadid Architects, and Kjellander Sjöberg. He is senior lecturer in architecture at Chalmers and a member of Architects Sweden (SAR/MSA).

Einar Rodhe studied architecture at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (MArch) and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. He has previously worked for Anders Wilhelmson and Ghilardi+Hellsten. He is a senior lecturer in spatial design at Konstfack University of Arts, Craft and Design in Stockholm and a member of Architects Sweden (SAR/MSA).

Doors open at 18:45
Lecture starts at 19:00
Free

Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/4vB8tnPPM

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Architectural Practice is a lecture series inviting exemplary practices from across the globe to share their ongoing body of work. The series is curated by Cristian Stefanescu (Assistant Professor, BAS & founder of a-works | architecture + art) and co-hosted by the Bergen School of Architecture (BAS) and Bergen Society of Architects (BAF)

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Image Credits

Filip Dujardin, Norell / Rodhe

Professor Penelope Haralambidou will present her cross-disciplinary and design-led research project City of Ladies is which aims to introduce and promote the work of medieval author Christine de Pizan to an architectural audience for the first time. In her celebrated text, The Book of the City of Ladies, 1405, Christine describes the construction of an imaginary city, a female utopia built and inhabited by women. Her work has been seen as a proto-feminist manifesto, conflating the act of building with collecting stories of notable female figures from fiction and history and erecting a thesis against misogyny. Haralambidou’s research together with research assistant John Cruwys, builds upon existing scholarship on the relationship between image and text in Christine’s work. It proposes an innovative, design-led analysis of the architectural and urban allegory in her text and a spatial remodelling of the accompanying illuminations (miniature illustrations). Performing history and theory through design, the research aims to establish Christine as the first speculative female architect and to project the powerful message of her allegorical city into the future.

https://www.cityofladies.org

Bio

Penelope Haralambidou is Professor of Architecture and Spatial Culture at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Together with Dr Luke Pearson she initiated, developed and co-directs Cinematic and Videogame Architecture MArch, the first master’s programme using this innovative pedagogical model in the UK. She was the first candidate to start a PhD Architectural Design thesis at the Bartlett in 1996; coordinator of PhD Programmes 2011–2016; and supervisor of artistic and design research PhDs since 2004. Her research employs architectural drawing, model-making and digital film as investigatory tools to analyse ideas and work, not only in architecture, but also visual representation, the politics of vision, art and cinema. Her work has been exhibited internationally, she is the author of the monograph Marcel Duchamp and the Architecture of Desire (London: Routledge, 2013), and she has contributed writing on themes, such as architectural representation, allegory, figural theory, stereoscopy and film to a wide range of publications. Her solo show ‘City of Ladies’, presenting her recent practice-led research on Christine de Pizan’s proto-feminist text The Book of the City of Ladies, 1405, was hosted at DomoBaal Gallery in 2020.