Diploma

The diploma semester (18 weeks) is an architectural study on a theme chosen by the candidate. Program for the diploma has been prepared by the student in the pre-diploma course (6 credits).

Each student has one main appointed supervisor from AHO´s academic staff. In addition, the student can make use of the entire academic staff at AHO, and have the possibility to consult special expertise from outside of AHO, which is supported by the school by a limited amount.

Nicholas Coates

Erik Fenstad Langdalen

Diploma fall 2024

Value as a tool - A strategic study of an existing vocabulary and its possibilities

House of Electricity

Løa: Revitalizing the 20th-Century Barn of Jæren

LINDÅSTUNET : the adaptation of an obsolete health institution

DEN STRIE ÆLVA 

Reinstating Kvadraturen

Between Spaces: A Low Threshold Reception Centre for Women in Addiction

Lost and found: reimagining the architecture of the in-between spaces of Oslo

Diploma spring 2024

The language of the long house

Reassembeling the rejected

Fac(ad)ing the future

Diploma spring 2023

Reinterpretation: Folketeateret

The tool factory

Living Together - Towards a Third Housing Sector in Oslo

Camp Objects

Reinterpreting: Folketeateret

Exploring the Gas Station

Limeworks - Recovering a Material History

Lys i nord – Norske hus

The diploma semester (18 weeks) is an architectural study on a theme chosen by the candidate. Program for the diploma has been prepared by the student in the pre-diploma course (6 credits).

Each student has one main appointed supervisor from AHO´s academic staff. In addition, the student can make use of the entire academic staff at AHO, and have the possibility to consult special expertise from outside of AHO, which is supported by the school by a limited amount.

Diploma fall 2023

Coastal Memories

Oslo's Urban Canvas

Landing at Lista

The Hidden Plastic Age

Schools Out: Adaptive Reuse of Flø Skule

Facade Autonomy: a study of the 80s facades at Aker Brygge

A house for Ole with friends

Diploma spring 2022

Diploma fall 2022

Tryvannstårnet Ascending Decending

Towards material independence – Akranes cement factory

Radio Remnants

RULE THE (M)ALL - a protection order for the rural mall

From Noun to Verb – Changing architectural vocabularies

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Mobile Heritage: Preserving Architecture on the Move

Erik Langdalen is a practicing architect and a professor of architecture at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. 

 is an award-winning office specialized on the preservation and transformation of historic buildings, including the Eero Saarinen designed US Embassy in Oslo (2023), the Magnus Poulsson designed Dombås Church (2023), and the soon to be opened Karl Norum-designed Posten Moderne Museum of Contemporary Art in Trondheim, as well as a number of heritage sites across Norway. His teaching and research focus on the recent past, specializing on concrete architecture, buildings systems and components. Erik is in charge of the Re-Store course portfolio, investigating how architectural education needs to respond to the climate crises through the reuse, preservation and transformation of what is already built. Since 2021, his teaching has engaged the concept of provenance in a number of master studios and seminars. His books include 

Sverre Fehn, Nordic Pavilion, Venice. Voices from the Archive

 (2021). He is the owner of the cultural center 

. Erik holds a Diploma of Architecture from AHO and a M.ARCH AAD from Columbia University GSAPP.