Welcome to Bergen School of Architecture

Gravity and Grace
4th year design studio exploring the material and spatial poetics of how to compose new buildings through the harvesting of resources from deconstruction. 

Linet Sánchez utilizes miniature architectural models in her work — which the artist constructs meticulously by hand — to explore the intimate relationship between memory, the built environment, and symbolic images. These quaint, finely crafted architectural interiors are not renditions of specific places; they are structures built from sensory input, emotion residue, and personal experience. Much like memory itself, each maquette Gutierrez builds is a construct or amalgamation of her lived experience.  

*My work moves mainly between photography, sculpture and video. To do this, I start by making wooden or cardboard models, creating scenarios to later photograph, film or simply display them as sculptural objects. I start from the analysis of my own memory and mental states in relation to architectural spaces. I believe that memories are not a faithful representation of events, but rather a construction of the individual, a new reality. That is why my work often uses codes related to the scenic and theatrical. I represent empty or closed spaces, absent of color. For me they function as a kind of container that allows me to establish relationships with what is not visible more than with what is shown; and this obsession with emptiness is related, perhaps, to the loneliness that represents that mental space where we live and in which we are all hopelessly alone." 

Linet Sanchez Gutierrez graduated from the prestigious Olga Alonso Gonzalez School of Ballet in Santa Clara Cuba, before moving into the Fine Arts Professional Academy in Santa Clara, and finally into the Art University (ISA) in Havana. She currently lives and works in Havana. Her work has been exhibited around Cuba as well as in the US, Mexico, Colombia, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and France.

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 Ștefănescu (Assistant Professor, BAS & founder of a-works | architecture, art and design) and co-hosted by the Bergen School of Architecture (BAS) and Bergen Society of Architects (BAF).

Doors open at 18:45. Lectures start at 19:00  (back-to-back lectures of approx. 1hr each + q&a)

Free Entrance

ODA PÄLMKE

Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Oda Pälmke is a freelance architect in Berlin (odapaelmke.de) 

Oda Pälmke's work primarily consists of architectural refinements of existing buildings, subtle interventions as well as extravagant conversions for personalities and institutions from the fields of art and film. She is the author of several books in which she examines the typological-morphological qualities of buildings and the nature of form creation. Her most recent publication is the series Repertoire 1-8, a collection of drawings and phenomenological studies on the sustainability of form. 

Oda Pälmke studied architecture at the Technical University and the Berlin University of the Arts. She has been a research associate for design and housing at the Bauhaus University Weimar, a visiting professor for architectural design at the WAAC-Washington Alexandria Architectural Consortium USA, at the CUJAE-Universidad Tecnológica Havana Cuba, a visiting professor for design at the EPFL-Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, a visiting professor for design at the HfbK-Hamburg University of Fine Arts, a visiting professor for the fundamentals of architecture at the Technical University of Dortmund, a visiting professor for design and construction in existing buildings at the BTU-Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, and a visiting professor for spatial design and design at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern. Since winter semester 2016, Oda Pälmke has been a full professor for SPATIAL DESIGN AND DESIGN at the Department of Architecture of the RPTU / fatuk.

ELIZABETH HATZ
Elizabeth B Hatz is a practicing architect, AA Diploma/SAR/MSA, professor and art curator. She shares her time between office, research, art and teaching positions at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm and at SAUL School of Architecture, University of Limerick, Ireland. 

As project architect at Berg Architects, E Hatz designed Kodak Headquarters outside Gothenburg, the ground buildings of Stockholm Globe Arena, the world’s largest spherical building, and a number of industrial buildings for Nobe Industries/AKSO-Nobel in Stockholm. Since 1992 she has run her own practice with both private and public commissions.

Hatz curated ev+a 2010, Ireland’s pre-eminent art event. As head of the Swedish Association of Architects (SAR) she co-founded Fargfabriken, a renowned scene for art and architecture in Stockholm, where she is a board member.

Apart from art and architectural design she works extensively with project organisation, assessments and leadership for private and public parties. Architectural juries include The Ralph Erskine Prize, Kalmar Stortorget Competition (won by Caruso & St. John) and The Nobel Museum in Stockholm. She led practice-based research at KTH, exhibited at Fargfabriken and Lund Art Hall and helped assess architectural education and research (Aarhus, Oslo, Sheffield, Aberdeen, Queens, UCD). Published in Sweden, UK, Italy, Ireland. 

Image Credits

Oda Pälmke & Elizabeth Hatz