The Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art is Norway's oldest and largest institution for educating architects, dating back to the inauguration of NTH in 1910.
The Art Academy in Trondheim (KiT) was founded as an art school just after World War II, and became a public art academy in 1987. In 1996, KiT merged into the new NTNU, as one of five departments at the Faculty of Arcitecture and Fine Art.
More than 100 employees are affiliated with the Faculty, of which 50 permanent scientific staff. There are approximately 500 students in architecture, property development and management and urban ecological planning, 100 art students and 40 research fellows / post-docs.
Ruth Woods presents her doctoral thesis
- 9. February 2012
Cand. philol. Ruth Woods, Department of Architectural Design, Form and Colour Studies, is submitting the following academic thesis as part of the doctoral work at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU):
"Shopping with Art: How Art Creates its Role in Public Places".
The appointed Evaluation Committee:
- Professor Arnd Schneider, University of Oslo
- Dr. Wendy Gunn, University of Southern Denmark
- Professor em. Birgit Cold, NTNU, Department of Architectural Design and Management
Associate Professor Eivind Kasa, NTNU has been the candidate's supervisor. Supporting supervisor has been Dr. Gunnar M Lamvik, Sintef.
The trial lecture will take place on 9. February 2012, 10.15 in Rådsalen, Hovedbygningen at Gløshaugen on the prescribed subject: "Methodological challenges to the anthropological study of art (including public art)".
The candidate will publicly defend her thesis for the PhD degree in Rådsalen, Hovedbygningen at Gløshaugen, Thursday 09.02.2012, at 13.15.
WATER CITIES Trondheim and Ancona
- International Workshop
NTNU Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art is hosting students, tutors and professors from Ancona, Italy. They are visiting Trondheim for a workshop on the topics; city structures designing the water boundaries, infrastructural connection and sustainability.
Location for the workshop, courses, lectures and exhibition will be Brattøra, Nyhavna and Campus Gløshaugen.
Architecture between art and science
- Architectural education for the 21th century
CONDITIONS #8-2011
Educating architects and designers for the future, is it a question on choosing between a narrow elitism approach for the hardcore architects or a broader approach focusing on solving complex integrated problems facing architects and planners working with global challenges for our future?
Read the article here (pdf).
CONDITIONS, is a new Scandinavian magazine focusing on the conditions of architecture and Urbanism. It is organized in a fluctuating network of agents reflecting the present globalized state of a dynamic society, economics, politics and culture which are the motivators of architecture. Through a play of thoughts in an open ended forum, predefined "facts" will be unsecured and constantly reinvented. The forum will gather the architect, client, politician and the public, a communion of ideas creating conditions for evolution.
4 issues per year. English edition only. conditionsmagazine
