The new Opera House was one of the buildings Prof. Giacumacatos visited in Oslo. 
Photo: Charlotte Skogen.The new Opera House was one of the buildings Prof. Giacumacatos visited in Oslo. Photo: Charlotte Skogen

Professor Andreas Giacumacatos' visit to Norway

Professor Andreas Giacumacatos was invited by the Norwegian Embassy to go to Norway for the 2011 Architectural Festival. During his stay in Norway, Prof. Giacumacatos visited several Norwegian architectural offices, museums and comtemporary buildings in Oslo, Hamar and Stavanger. Here you can read all about his trip and see his photos.

Landscape in Hamar
Landscape in Hamar 

In Norway, Prof. Giacumacatos met with Norwegian offices such Cathrine Vigander AS and the National Association of Norwegian Architects (NAL). 

 -The Norwegian Embassy in Athens is pleased to contribute so that new cooperation projects in architecture between Greece and Norway can be created, Cultural Officer at the Embassy Christina Sordina says.

Here you can read Prof. Giacumacatos article on his trip to Norway.  


About Andreas Giacumacatos


Andreas Giacumacatos was born in Athens, Greece, in 1955. He studied also architecture at the Faculty of Architecture in Florence and Venice, Italy and gained his Ph.D. at the Thessaloniki University, Greece. He is now professor of History and Theory of Architecture at the School of Architecture in Thessaloniki, and at the Faculty of Art History and Theory in the Athens School of Fine Arts. He has founded the Greek Docomomo working party in 1990, and was a founding member of the Hellenic Institute of Architecture in 1994, which he directed in 1999-2001. For the same institute he organized in 2009-2010 at the Benaki Museum in Athens the first series of conferences of Scandinavian architects, including Kjetil Thorsen and Bjarke Ingels, and in 2010-2011 the second series of “German-speaking” European architecture (Austria, Germany, Switzerland). Since 1987 he is consultant editor of the annual reviews “Architecture in Greece” and “Design + Art in Greece”, and architectural critic of the Athens newspaper “To Vima”.

Prof. Giacumacatos also visited the Rudolf Steiner School in Stavanger by Arbeidsgruppen HUSProf. Giacumacatos also visited the Rudolf Steiner School in Stavanger by Arbeidsgruppen HUS




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