The exhibition "Coming into community" at the National Museum - Architecture looks at architecture, urban planning, and ideas about community through a queer gaze.
“Ode to Osaka” is this year’s summer exhibition at the National Museum – Architecture. The exhibition explores Sverre Fehn’s competition design for the Nordic Pavilion at the World Expo in Osaka in 1970.
How have architectural theories evolved over the past two hundred years? And how have the methods and styles used by architects influenced and changed our architectural culture and history? These questions form the basis of the National Museum – Architecture’s very first permanent exhibition based on the museum’s own collection, set to open on 19 September.
Sverre Fehn’s original drawings for the Nordic Pavilion in Venice will be presented alongside Ferruzzi’s gorgeous black-and-white photographs of the building. The exhibition Venice: Fehn’s Nordic Pavilion will be on display 20 June–31 December 2014 at the National Museum – Architecture.
What characterises the present generation of young Norwegian architects and how are they positioning themselves in Norway and internationally? Who are these architects and what are their concerns? How are they creating and shaping innovative advances, and to what extent will they make their mark on the architecture of the future?