Kodak-bygget

The Re-Store teaching unit offers new perspectives on the preservation, reuse and transformation of architectural heritage from the recent past, with a special focus on the provenance of building systems, components and materials. Taking an Experimental Preservation approach, the unit responds to the challenges of the climate crisis by renegotiating the way we understand, evaluate, and transform the built environment. Through MA studios and seminars, the unit aims to reinvigorate the discipline by challenging the prevailing ideas of authorship, origins and the integrity of the architectural monument. Engaged in a wide range of practices counting archival studies, value assessment methods, restoration techniques, survey practices, model building, drawing, writing and dissemination, the students are trained to participate in the contemporary discourse with a critical mindset and high design skills. Recent studios have focused on concrete, building systems, prefabrication, building components, petroleum and weather. Re-Store publications include the 

Former Re-Store faculty: Andreas Angelidakis, Thordis Arrhenius, Bård Helland, Amandine Kastler, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Andrea Pinochet, Kim Pløhn, Alena Rieger, Bryony Roberts, Ingrid Dobloug Roede, Erlend Skjeseth, Jørgen Tandberg, Kjetil Sæterdal, Léa-Catherine Szacka, Helle Bendixen Trier, Espen Vatn.

Re-Store

Re-Store: Prefab is about prefabricated and mass-produced architecture: its history, cultural value, spread and popularity, technological properties and spatial potential.

Re-Store: Prefab

architecture and photography

The relationship between architecture and photography seen through the lens of the Kodak building

The Kodak building by Geir Grung was completed in 1978, and was Kodak Norge AS’s headquarter until they closed down in 2004. This project is a research on
the building’s rich, but hidden history – and a study on the relationship between architecture and photography.

What made this building not just a regular office building, but a building that was specially designed for Kodak – as they had asked for in the competition? What made it so challenging to fit a new program into the building, after the company had to close its doors in 2004? And could I find any hidden references to photography in the architecture itself?

The relationship between architecture and photography seen through the lens of the Kodak building

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