RØROSSEMINARET 2015 TAF INTERNATIONAL CELEBRATION OF ARCHITECTURE

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PROGRAM

Friday 24th April

1330 Departure Trondheim Central Station1630 Check-in Vertshuset, Røros1730-1930 ”Smorgasbord” in Apotekergården2000- Andrew Freear / Rural Studio (USA)

Saturday 25th April

0800-0900 Breakfast0900-0920 Line Ramstad (Norway)0930-1045 Anupama Kundoo (India)1100-1215 Todd Saunders (Canada/Norway) Lunch1400-1515 Ramin Mehdizadeh (Iran)1530-1645 Billie Tsien & Tod Williams (USA)1930- Celebration dinner in Sangerhuset

Sunday 26th April

0800-1100 Breakfast and check-out1100-1120 Sevrin Gjerde & Nina Haarsaker (Norway)1130-1240 Jeronimo Hagerman (Mexico)1300-1415 Ingerid Helsing Almaas (Norway)1430- Departure

Seminar locations (see map):

All lectures are held in: - Sangerhuset (Fri/Sat) - Storstuggu (Sun)

Seminar participation fee NOK 2400,-incl. smorgasbord and celebration dinner (excl. drinks)

Student seats20 seats have been reserved for students at a participation fee of NOK 500,-. Because of a lack of space, student seats do not include smorgasbord on Friday and celebration dinner on Saturday.

Accommodation Vertshuset, RørosAccommodation is booked upon registration. NB! Accommodation is paid separately at check-out. All prices per person per night, including breakfast.

2 pers. in double room Uldvaren 625,-2 pers. in double room Rammgården 650,-3 pers. Uldvaren 550,-3 pers. Rammgården 554,-4 pers. Uldvaren 490,-4 pers. Rammgården 525,-

Participants are encouraged to organise small groups in apartments. All wishes may not be fulfilled. Subject to price change by change in government taxes.

Transport Bus from Trondheim Central StationDeparture 1330. Please note departure time! NOK 300,- return (t/r).

Registration www.arkitektur.no/roros-seminaret-2015Questions may be directed to: leif.baardstu@solemarkitektur.noRegistration deadline: 2015-03-25 PaymentTrondhjems Arkitektforening Account #: 1503.04.07471boks 265 – 7411 Trondheim Payment deadline 2015-04-13

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WELCOME TO RØROS!The 15th TAF International Celebration of Architecture

The Trondheim Chapter (TAF) of the National Association of Norwegian Architects has been arranging architectural celebrations at Røros since 1988. Over the years these arrangements taking place every second year have become important events in celebrating the common bonds between architects, wherever they work in the world. It’s a place for architects to congregate, for projects and buildings to be discussed and to celebrate the work of colleagues.

There were no high-flying ideas behind the initiative. There were no world problems to be solved, and no one particular issue to be debated. We simply wanted to invite fellow practicing architects from around the world, primarily from areas we knew little about, to share ideas on built works. All architects struggle with similar challenges, although in different settings and often without due recognition.

Out of this idea came an event celebrating the tribulations we go through in creating buildings to enhance our environment, and the exuberance felt when buildings come out “warm, dry and noble”, as the late Sam Mockbee once said.

International exchange between architects is easy, at times too easy. This is the reason we make an issue of architects meeting face to face. We meet in the town of Røros, one of Norway’s World Heritage Sites and thus an extraordinary place for architects to be together. The invited architects are people we have identified through word of mouth, ‘obscure’ publications, and/or regular architectural press, and they are invited to present works that carry a particular significance for them while at the same time carry a social significance, be architecturally innovative and challenging - and they have to be nice people. This year the celebration starts out in Trondheim one day early with the TRANSark conference on transformative learning in architectural education - Thursday 23rd April at Dokkhuset, Trondheim.Information and registration: www.ntnu.edu/transark On behalf of the Røros Committee 2015:

Trygve Ohren, Siri Rørholt, Neil Alperstein, Julie Nordhagen, Leif Baardstu, Hans Skotte, Gro Rødne, and Ørjan Nyheim.

photo: Helena Normark

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ANDREW FREEAR - RURAL STUDIO (USA)

Andrew Freear is the Wiatt Professor at Auburn University Rural Studio, although he does not see himself as a ‘professor’. After the death of the pioneering Samuel Mockbee, he took over the directorship of Rural Studio 2002 making it one of the most sought-after and acclaimed undergrad. architecture programs in the US. The Rural Studio represents a hands-on architectural pedagogy that not only teaches students to design and build homes and community projects, but also focuses – as part of their architectural training –on seeing their work as a contribution toward the development of rural West Alabama.

Andrew is actually a Brit from Yorkshire. He studied at the Polytechnic of Central London and the Architectural Association. He has practiced in London and Chicago, taught at the University of Illinois in Chicago and been a Unit Master at the Architectural Association.

With his students he has designed, supervised and built Rural Studio exhibits around the world. Their work has been extensively published in meritorious journals and books. With his wife, Elena Barthel, he recently published ‘Rural Studio at 20’ - giving an account of what the Rural Studio has done – and will do.

Andrew Freear and Rural Studio have received numerous national and international awards, among them the 2006 Ralph Erskine Award (in 1995 Erskine sent the Award Diploma to us so that we could present it to the representative of that year’s award winner!). Andrew is in extreme demand on the lecture circuit across the world. We are honoured to welcome him to Røros.

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LINE RAMSTAD (NORWAY)

Line Ramstad is a landscape architect by formal profession. She was initially part of the Tyin Architects-trio when leaving for Thailand five years back. Two returned, but Line stayed on, establishing Gyaw Gyaw, a local design-build unit . She has been thoroughly localized and put her professional capacity to the service of the Karen people, a people hounded and displaced in the border region between Burma and Thailand. Besides of working on ‘projects of crisis’, her main mission is to generate local skills, bring forth locally produced building materials and generate a ‘contextual architecture’. Working with a core of local craftspeople, occasionally assisted by external partners, she consistently focus on the strategic dimension of her work. In many ways she has based her practice on the approach underpinning Rural Studio located in the remote outskirts of Alabama: Stay put and thereby be trusted.

Because of the quality of her work, her dedication and insight into the local reality, she has been internationally recognized among her architect peers. She has been featured in prestigious publications, invited to speak at the opening of the “Think Global, Build Social” at the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt, invited to Finland, the US and most recently to the Pan-American Architecture Biennal in Ecuador. She was among the initial signatories of the Laufen Manfesto for a Humane Design Culture along Anna Heringer, Peter Rich, Hubert Klumpner and other world leading architects working in the Global South.

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ANUPAMA KUNDOO (INDIA)

Anupama Kundoo’s internationally recognised and award-winning architecture practice started in 1990. It demonstrates a strong focus on material research and experimentation towards an architecture that has low environmental impact and is appropriate to the socio-economic context. Kundoo has built extensively in India and has had the experience of working, researching and teaching in a variety of cultural contexts across the world: TU Berlin, AA School of Architecture London, Parsons New School of Design New York, University of Queensland Brisbane, IUAV Venice and ETSAB Barcelona. She is currently Professor at UCJC Madrid where she is Chair of ‘Affordable Habitat’. She is also the Strauch Visiting Critic at Cornell University. Kundoo’s work extend to urban design and planning projects, with her background in rapid urbanisation related development issues, about which she has written extensively. She taught urban management at the TU Berlin and recently proposed her strategies for a future city for Africa, as part of the Milan Triennale 2014.

During the Venice Biennale in 2012 she demonstrated the use of recycled and unconventional materials in the reconstruction of the Wall house–where terracotta pots and glass bottles were juxtaposed to form arches as supports for the roof. And in 2013 Kundoo received an honourable mention in the ArcVision International Prize for Women in Architecture for ‘her dedication when approaching the problem of affordability of construction and sustainability in all aspects’.

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TODD SAUNDERS (CANADA/NORWAY)

Saunders Architecture was founded by Todd Saunders in 1998. He has lived and worked in Bergen since 1996, following his studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax and McGill University in Montreal. He continues to combine teaching with practice and has been a part-time teacher at the Bergen Architecture School since 2001. Saunders has also lectured and taught at schools in Scandinavia, the UK and Canada.

Saunders Architecture is led by a strong contemporary design sensibility, the studio believes that architecture must play an important role in creating place, using form, materials and texture to help evoke and shape memory and human interaction.The office operates within ‘natural’ as well as ‘man-made contexts’, with examples ranging from an award-nominated dramatic viewpoint structure set amidst a rich protected landscape to several new-built houses within more traditional suburban settings.

The office has successfully executed work in both Canada, Norway, and Finland, creating architecture with a strong sense of northern identity an individual approach that is informed by the strength of natural landscape.

The Norwegian Association of Architects nominated the Aurland Lookout for the Mies van der Rohe Prize.

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RAMIN MEHDIZADEH (IRAN)

Mehdizadeh’s Apartment No. 1 in Mahallat, Iran, caught international attention through its innovative use of stonework, producing both an innovative, elegant Architecture while simultaneously contributing to the transformation of the stone driven economy of the town.

The qualities ascribed to his buildings, such as the ‘play between austerity of form and warmth of materials, interplay of privacy and openness, calmness, passive climatic control, highly innovative use of materials and good design’, have won him international recognition.

Ramin Mehdizadeh, born in Ahwaz, Iran, is an Architect as well as a Developer. He completed his Masters degrees in Architecture at the National University of Iran, and his Masters degree in Real Estate development at Columbia University, New York.

Ramin worked for Skidmore, Owings and Meril New York Office (2007 – 2008), gaining international exposure, before setting up his own office.

In 2009, Ramin, together with his partners, founded ‘Architecture by Collective Terrain’, an international firm based in Tehran, Seoul and Washington DC.

He has won numerous awards, including; the World Architecture Community Award, New York, 2008, 1st place in the Grand Me’mar award in 2010 and the Plaque of the first ranked Architect of the year 2010, Tehran, Iran.

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BILLIE TSIEN & TOD WILLIAMS (USA)

Billie Tsien & Tod Williams are the first US architects invited to Røros. For good reasons. When a firm holds “signature values”, as they have said, rather than “signature style”, we know they are of ‘our kind’. Their work is of Pritzker caliber, their projects shaped and given character through common-sense functionality and a creative synthesis of light and materials - in some cases even with ‘light in materials’, as applied in the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.

They run a 30-staff office in New York and was recently awarded the Architecture Firm Award by the American Institute of Architects, not only for the merit of their work, but also in recognition of the way they run their office. Below is how they describe their architectural conviction:

We see architecture as an act of profound optimism. Its foundation lies in believing that it is possible to make places on the earth that can give a sense of grace to life – and believing that that matters.  It is what we have to give and it is what we leave behind.

We wrote these words a number of years ago and believe in them even more deeply today. We measure the value of our work by the quiet pleasure of the lives lived in our buildings. We want to solve problems and we want to transcend solutions. We try to work with a thoughtful integrity to make buildings that will last and be loved. We want to leave good marks upon this earth.This work comes from two voices and from many voices.

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NINA HAARSAKER & SEVRIN GJERDE (NORWAY)

Nina Haarsaker and Sevrin Gjerde are both architects educated in Trondheim and graduated from NTNU 2001/2000. Nina is a lecturer at NTNU and Sevrin works at Agraff Architects in Trondheim.

In 2014 they completed their own family house in Blaklia, Trondheim. The architects set out to explore what the “green house” is - not to consider it merely as a technical challenge but rather a way of using space and experiencing space. In the same way gravity has given beautiful constructed columns and beams, the recycling of materials and energy saving in building will generate its own beauty. A solid wall covered with clay divides the main plan of the house. The wall serves as insulation between two temperature zones, as a thermal collector and a humidity equalizer - as part of an investigation into “how temperature zoning and solar power could provide efficient energy use”. This wall also separates the house into a secluded part and an exposed part. The exposed part contains entrances, stairs and openings towards the garden. The secluded part contains the hearth, bathrooms and bedrooms. Together the two parts forms a building that contains the necessary spaces for a balanced life.

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Jeronimo Hagerman (MEXICO/SPAIN)

Hagerman’s artwork develops around the analysis of the relationship between the individual and nature, emphasizing on how the emotional ties between the subject and the outside world are generated. His work covers some aspects of the modern myths of ‘civilization’ versus ‘the wild’, such as domestication, landscape as aesthetic value and the controversial position of human as part of nature.

At the beginning of his career he created sculptural installations and photography which documented the short distance that sometimes exists between what is natural and what is artificial.Over the years he has shifted focus towards an exploration of vegetation. For over ten years he has been researching the different variables affecting our relationship with the outside territory, the landscape and, more specifically, the garden as a domestic platform for nature.

He is currently developing vegetation interventions in public and private spaces, where the viewer finds a space to analyze and question the differences between the human dimension and the vegetation world. Each project is developed around specific aspects in which our existence is radically different: Dimension (Scale Forest, 2006), time and stillness (Contemplating the Invasion, 2004), or how plants spread (Pink Mina, 2005 and Malas madres, 2008).

He has exhibited in some of the most prominent museums in Mexico City as well as in the United States, Canada, Japan, Poland, France, Spain, Singapore, Ireland and Russia.

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INGERID HELSING ALMAAS (NORWAY)

Ingerid Helsing Almaas was born in Oslo, Norway in 1965. After studying woodworking and philosophy in Oslo, she moved on to architecture studies in the United Kingdom, graduating from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London in 1994. She has practised as an architect in London and in Oslo, and taught in the AA Diploma School with Pascal Schöning from 1995 to 1999.

Currently living in Oslo and New York, she works as an architecture critic in various capacities in Norway and internationally. She has been editor-in-chief of Arkitektur N, The Norwegian Review of Architecture, since 2004

Ingerid’s concern in architecture is rooted in practice. “Culture is not an academic pursuit; culture is the way we do things, and architecture is a field of action. Within the realm of architecture lies the possibility to grapple with - and perhaps meet - some of the major challenges facing the human community today. Arkitektur N continues to furnish practising architects with arguments for the ongoing debate about how we might build the future.”

For several years Ingrid has taken it upon herself to sum up the Røros Celebration.

These have been our lecturers so far:

1988: Vilen Kunnapu, Estonia; Lasse Vtera ,Finland; Seppo Heinonen, Fredrik Prøsh, Evlyn Anderson and Lars Fredrik Nordland, Norway. 1990: Romi Khosla, India; Josè Forjas, Mosambique; Sigurdur Harason, Iseland; Thorsen & Dykers/ Snøhetta, Norway; Michael Lloyd, UK/ Norway; Ulrich Malicius, Torbjørn Eggen, Norway.1992: Rasem Badran, Jordan; Jury Brashkov, Russia; Raul Hestnes Ferreira, Portugal; Juvenal Baracco, Peru; Ulf Grønvold, Norway; J.O. Jensen, PC Brynildsen Norway; 1994: Ralph Erskine, Sweden; Jo Noero, South Africa; Kenneth Yeang, Malaysia; Amir Pasic, Bosnia Herzegovina; Kristin Jarmund, Norway; Heidi Bjøru, Norway.; Michael Lloyd, UK/Norway1996: Miguel Angel Roca, Argentina; Eko Prawato, Indonesia; Rodney Harber, South Africa; Carmen & Elin Corneil, Canada/ Norway; Einar Hagem, Lund Hagem, Norway. 1998: Farhad Ahmadi, Iran; Jan Søndergård, Denmark; Hans Venhuiszen, Netherlands; Ulla Vatrea, Finnland; Grov Haga, Sixten Rahllf, Harald Hille, Norway.2000: John Tuomey & Sheila O`Donnell, Ireland; Richardo Porro, Cuba/ France; Sanjay Mohe, India; Kari Järvinen, Finland; Ewa Kipka, Poland; Molne and Gertslauer, Norway; Ola Steen, Norway.2002: Daigu Ishii, Japan; Glenn Murcutt, Australia; Dorte Mandrup, Danmark; Simon Velez, Columbia; Nils Johan Mannsåker, Norway; Merethe Moum, Norway, Helge Solberg, Norway; Knut Einar Larsen, Norway.2004: Rifat Chardiji, Irak; Kengo Kuma, Japan, Smiljan Radic, Chile, Michael Lloyd, Spain/Norway/UK; Geir Brendeland/Olav Kristoffersen, Norway, Steve Christer/Studio Granda, Iceland, Reinhard Kropf/Helen & Hard, Norway2006: Kate Otten, South Africa; Rafael Iglesia, Argentina; Lie & Øien, Norway, Channa Daswatte, Sri Lanka, Juha Laiviskä, Finland, Elias Torres, Spain, Sunniva Neuenkirchen Rosenberg, Norway, Ingerid Helsing Almaas, Norway2008: Dick van Gameren, Nederland; Pushak, Norway; Open City, Chile; Brian MacKay-Lyons, Canada; Diébédo Francis Kéré, Burkina Faso; Eike Roswag, Germany; Sami Rintala, Finland/ Norway; Ingerid Helsing Almaas, Norway.2010: Point Supreme Architects, Greece; Steinsvik Arkitektkontor, Norway; Rever og Drager Snikkarverksted, Norway; Tyin Tegnestue, Norway; Adnan Harambasic, Norway; Patama Roonrakwit, Thailand; Ingerid Helsing Almaas, Norway. 2011: Han Tümertekin, Turkey; Marit Haugen/ Dan Zohar, Norway; Pir II Arkitektkontor, Norway; Torben Schønherr, Denmark; Bijoy Jain, India; Wang Shu, China; Bjørn Otto Braaten, Norway; Ingerid Helsing Almaas, Norway.2013: Peter Stutchbury, Australia; Eriksen + Skajaa, Oslo; Senan Abdelqader, Jerusalem; Svein Skibnes, Trondheim; Marina Tabassum, Dhaka; Juhanni Pallasmaa, Helsinki; Peter Buchanan, England; Ingerid Helsing Almaas, Norway 13

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Transformative Learning in Architectural Education

Ray Land, Professor of Higher Education at Durham University and Director of Durham’s Centre for Academic Practice. He previously held similar posi-tions at Strathclyde, Coventry and Edinburgh. He has been a higher educa-tion consultant for the OECD and the European Commission and has been in-volved in two European Commission higher education projects in Europe and Latin America. He has published widely in the field of educational research, including works on educational development, learning technology and quality enhancement. He is best known for his theory (with Jan Meyer) of Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge. His latest book (with George Gordon) is Enhancing Quality in Higher Education: International Perspectives (Rout-ledge 2013). He is both a member of AB Faculty`s Master program evaluation committee and TRANSark’s international scientific committee.

Dr. Jonathan Reams is driven by an insatiable curiosity about the essence of human nature and how to cultivate this essence in the service of leader-ship. He uses various outlets for achieving this. He currently has a position at NTNU where he teaches and does research on leadership development, coaching and counselling. He serves as editor-in chief of Integral Review, A Transdisciplinary and Transcultural Journal for New Thought, Praxis and Re-search. He is also a co-founder of the Centre for Transformative Leadership. Jonathan’s Ph.D. is in Leadership Studies from Gonzaga University. Jonathan has presented at numerous international conferences on topics such as lead-ership development, consciousness research and transformative learning.

Jane Anderson is Programme Lead for Undergraduate Architecture at Ox-ford Brookes University. She has worked as an architect in Germany and the UK. Her involvement with architectural education began in 2001 as a partici-pant in the innovative architectural tutor training course at University of East London. She taught with Ruth Morrow and they collaborated on the book “Building Clouds, Drifting Walls”, about the first year design studio at Sheffield University. She is a National Teaching Fellow. Her research concerns the ped-agogyof live projects in architecture and also in interdisciplinary contexts. She directs OB1 LIVE, a programme of live projects designed and implemented by architecture students for the local community. Jane is also co-founder of the Live Projects Network, an international online resource to connect students, academics and communities involved in live projects.

Student perspective: Representing the voice of the students, Kristin Solhaug Næss, Kristoffer Olsen Hauge, Anders Gunleiksrud and Sebastian Østlie will share their experiences of the transformative aspects from hands-on learning in live situations of making (Real life projects in Norway and the Philippines).What does this method of learning provide in comparison to the traditional stu-dio situation? At NTNU the first assignment students are given is to complete a building scenario from planning to the built structure (usually about 200 m2). These kinds of learning situations continue throughout the curriculum as the students carry out high quality projects around the world. They also facilitate projects on their own. Studio Beta is an example of an independent, co – cur-ricula student HUB with partially funding and tutoring provided by the Faculty.

Ingerid Helsing Almaas is an architect and has been editor-in-chief of Arkitektur N, the Norwegian Review of Architecture, since 2004. She studied woodworking, philosophy and architecture, graduating from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London in 1994. She has practised as an architect in London and Oslo, and taught at the AA Diploma School with Pascal Schöning from 1995 to 1999. She has been working as an architecture critic in various capacities in Norway and internationally. Ingerid’s concerns in architecture are rooted in practice. Culture is not an academic pursuit; culture is the way we do things, and architecture is a field of action. Within the realm of architecture lies the possibility to grapple with - and perhaps meet - some of the major challenges facing the human community today.

Andrew Freear is an architect and the Wiatt Professor at Auburn University. He joined the Rural Studio in 1998 as a teacher and was appointed director in 2002. The Rural Studio represents a hands-on architectural pedagogy that not only teaches students to design and build charity homes and commu-nity projects, but also improves the living conditions in rural west Alabama. Andrew studied at the Polytechnic of Central London, and the Architectural Association, London and has practiced in London and Chicago, taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago and as a Unit Master at the Architectural As-sociation. He has designed, supervised and built Rural Studio exhibits around the world and they have been published in meritorious journals and books.Andrew Freear and Rural Studio have received numerous national and inter-national awards, among them the 2006 Ralph Erskine Award.

Andrew Freear is the Wiatt Professor at Auburn University Rural Studio. He joined the Rural Studio as a teacher in 1998 and has been the director since 2002 (After the late co-founder Samuel Mockbee). Freear studied at the

Please register by 13 April at: ntnu.wufoo.com/forms/transark-conference-april-23Participation is free and includes snacks, beverage and lunch. For more information please visit our website: www.ntnu.edu/transarkThe conference will be organized as a world café and the results of the discussion will be made public.

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