Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO)

Summary

Mission

To strengthen AHO’s position as a excellent, internationally orientated and specialized university.

To strengthen AHO’s academic profile and its multidisciplinary perspective.

To maintain AHO’s status as an independent institution within the Norwegian university system.

International role

Collaboration on education:
- EEAE and Nordic Architecture Academy (architecture), Cumulus and Cirrus (industrial design). Prof. P.O. Fjeld is the president of EEAE, Prof. K.O.Ellefsen presides NA.
- Karch, Copenhagen, on Master in urbanism
- University of Nanjing, China, on architectural heritage and architecture
- NUFU-financed project SEARCH on Master in development studies with universities in South- and East Africa ( Cape Town, Durban, Addis Abeba, Dar es Salaam, Nairobi University and Jomo Kenyatta University)

Field trips with contacts on project level to institutions in New York, the Netherlands (Berlage Institute), London ( Bartlett School of Architecture, Metropolitan University) and Tokyo.

Collaboration on the development of joint degrees for a Nordic Master in Architectural Heritage and an International master in architecture.

Collaboration with CAUP Tongji University Shanghai on Young teacher’s exchange program.

Student mobility: AHO attracts international students with applicant numbers exceeding AHO’s capacity. AHO aims at sending out 25% of its own students for one or more semesters. Within the Nordic countries student mobility is supported by the Nordplus and Cirrus exchange programs. AHO has bilateral agreements with a number of European institutions within the Erasmus program and with universities in Australia, Chile, Singapore and Uganda.

National role

Collaboration with other institutions are to be based on networks, both on a national and on an international level. AHO shall develop knowledge which can be applied to professional practice. Parts of AHO’s activity shall be innovative and aim at commercialization.

AHO strives to be a national center of knowledge within the disciplines of architecture, industrial design, urbanism and landscape architecture, and to be recognized as such both by the professions and by the general public. AHO and its collaboration partners strive to achieve good results within innovation and in the development of the disciplines.

Main focus

To bring Master candidates to a very high professional European level within the subject areas: architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture and design.

AHO endeavours to keep up a reputation as a school of excellence. Education at AHO shall give students a broad base of knowledge to ensure their development as professionals and as citizens. It shall also enable them to develop an individual professional profile. A diploma from AHO shall be recognized both nationally and internationally as a documentation of high professional competence. Master’s candidates from AHO shall be attractive within their professions.

Education

Faculties and departments

Institute of Architecture
Institute of Form, Theory and History
Institute of Industrial Design
Institute of Urbanism and Landscape

Bachelor level programs

(3 year foundation courses in Architecture and Industrial design. These are part of the Master’s programs, see below)

Master level programs

Architecture (5,5 years)
Industrial Design (5 years)
Landscape Architecture (2 years)
Urbanism (3 years, part-time)
Architectural Heritage (3 years, part-time)

Research

Research activity and main areas

Architecture
Industrial design, Interaction design
Landscape architecture
Urbanism

Doctorate level programs

Doctoral program in all the subject areas of AHO

Exchange

Subject areas for exchange students

Architecture, Urbanism, Landscape architecture, Industrial design

Application deadlines

1 May for the autumn semester
1 Nov for the spring semester

Teaching languages

Norwegian and English

Semester dates

Autumn semester: mid August to 20 December
Spring semester: beginning of January to mid June

Cost of living per month (studying and living)

8 – 10 000 NOK (no course fees)