Kastler lectures Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University in New York City.

This year’s colloquium, titled Fragments of the Imagination: Provenance, Preservation, and the Afterlives of Architecture, is organized in collaboration with Provenance Projected, an international research collective exploring the social, material, and historical lives of buildings and their futures. The colloquium will explore the conceptual, ethical, and artistic stakes of working with architectural fragments. Together, we will ask: How might architectural fragments be mobilized to reimagine the built environment—not as static inheritance, but as a site of imaginative transformation?

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Kastler lectures for Riksantikvaren (The Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage) and Akerhus Regional Heritage Authoritiesas as part of two day seminar for regional heritage planners.

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Images and drawings of recent projects published in Log 61 with an article by Chris Pierce

Kastler Skjesteh lectures at TAF International Celebration of Architecture. The seminar is a place for architects to congregate, for projects and buildings to be discussed and to celebrate the work of colleagues. This years seminar is the 19th since 1988, and takes place on the 19.-21.of April 2024 in Røros.

So far, the program consists of Francis Keré (Burkina Faso/Germany), Mariam Issoufou (Niger), Amrita Ballal (India), Jens Linnet (Denmark), Kastler Skjeseth (Norway), Joar Nango (Norway), and Anna Chavepayre ( France/Sweden)

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https://www.arkitektforbundet.no/Kurs/a0a6e415-46ac-ed11-a84c-005056bccb57

Kastler Skjeseth will lecture at Cap Moderne (E1027 by Eileen Gray / Cabanon by Le Corbusier ) for students at the Architectural Association Visiting School (AAVS) Côte d‘Azur.

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The AA Visiting School Côte d‘Azur offers a unique opportunity anyone interested in architecture, photography and design to explore the concept of maintenance in architecture and urbanism and expand their knowledge of alternative tools for research and documentation.

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https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/academicprogrammes/visitingschool/maintenance-forms-of-transformation-and-adaptation

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Erlend Skjeseth have been appointed as deputy member of the Oslo Council for City Architecture for a four year period.

The Council for City Architecture in Oslo expresses itself on current issues and themes of a principled or overarching nature, which the City Council and the Planning and Building Agency put before them. In addition, the council can, on its own initiative, take up topics concerning the shape and appearance of the city, and important individual matters.

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https://www.oslo.kommune.no/byutvikling/radet-for-byarkitektur/#toc-2

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Amandine Kastler participated in an event at The National Museum of Norway discussing the development of architectural drawing historically and in contemporary architectural culture.

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The talk and subsequent rundtable disussion included the architect Jørgen Tandberg (ph.d.-kandidat AHO), Joakim Skajaa (curator Nasjonalmuseet)

and Bente Aass Solbakken (curator Nasjonalmuseet)

Kastler Skjesteh lectures at ByMad in Oslo on the 12th of March

Arkitektur N (The Norwegian Review of Architecture) has published an article on Link House  here

The article was written by Sanden Hodnekvam and KSA wrote a corresponding piece on Hos på Søyler here

Kastler Skjeseth gave a lecture at Chalmers University of Technology School of Architecture in Gothenburg. The lecture was part of the Master studio Before and After Building Fall 2023 talks run by Daniel Norell. The Before and After Building studio addresses notions of time, reuse, transformation, appropriation and copying through architecture that departs from existing environments, objects, and materials.

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Kastler Skjesteh lectures for Agder Arkitektforening on Thursday the 23rd of November at Steenhuset Vinbar

Teaterplassen 1, 4836 Arendal, Norge

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https://arkitektforbundet.no/Kurs/66ff3652-1e62-ee11-a858-005056bccb57

Kastler Skjeseth are represented by a drawing in the exhibition "Hand and Machine" at the National Gallery in Oslo. The exhibition explores drawings and installations by architects in a period of flux. The drawings in the exhibition share is a critical attitude towards the aesthetics of the computer.

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The exhibition includes drawings by around forty Norwegian and international architectural firms:

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https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/exhibitions-and-events/national-museum/exhibitions/2023/hand-and-machine--architectural-drawings/

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Kastler Skjesteh lectures for Bergen Arkitektforening on the 8th of November at Bergen Assembly

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https://bergenassembly.no/Lecture-KASTLER-SKJELSETH-Bergen-Arkitektforening

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The Fehn symposium 2023 gathers a superb group of practitioners and educators from the fields of architecture and landscape architecture to reflect on the role of the architect and the meaning and use of buildings in a new time, in the light of the complex relation between thinking and doing that characterizes architectural practice.

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https://aho.no/en/calendar/fehn-symposium-2023-authoring-architecture-time

The conference asks the following question: When resource utilization and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from the production of buildings are to be emphasized, conservation and reuse become an important strategy for a circular economy in the low-emission society. So where does the balance lie? Can we afford to conserve more? Can we afford not to?

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https://arkitektforbundet.no/Kurs/62400015-621a-ee11-a854-005056bccb57

Illustrations and an essay by Kastler Skjeseth are included in the book "Rotterdam Rispresa" Published by Architectura & Natura

"Rotterdam Ripresa presents a city that aims to amend instead of renew, accepting not Just the pleasant past, but also the Impudent present. To find the new in the old may well be the most sustainable thing of all. Can a city change while remaining the same? Rotterdam Ripresa adopts an alternative method towards the production of striking visions for the city. An urbanism of fragmentary Intervention as a grand cadavre exquis where authorship is deluded rahter than distilled. A collection of Future Fragments for the Neo Liberal City completing found ensembles that never were, but always could have been."

Visuals for the project Nettas Hus has been included in the book "Det Nye Nabolaget" published by Fragment forlag and edited by Arild Eriksen and Saher Sourouri, launched at the Oslo Architectural Triennale 2022.

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Kastler Skjeseth will exhibit work at Budsjord in Dovre from the 25th of June and throughout summer. Budsjord is a national heritage site along the pilgrimage road leading to Trondheim.The fram welcome pilgrims and other visitors to eat, sleep and experience the unique historical setting and is an important meeting place for travellers and locals - an environment for dialogue and contemplation.

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Kastler Skjeseth is represented in the the Norwegian Pavilion at London Craft Week by PYTON, in collaboration with Norwegian Crafts. Our bed  will be on show 10 – 15th of May at Cromwell Place @cromwellplace

The Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage (Riksantikvaren) has recently launched its  “best practice” collection and has included three projects from Kastler Skjeseth’s portfolio to their online. The collection features good solutions for climate, universal access design and changed use of buildings worthy of protection. The website will show examples of various themes relating to heritage protection, as a tool for planning officers and inspiration for the public.

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See the three projects here: Fireplace Barn, Doktorhuset and Billerud Kunstbruk

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Arkitektur N (The Norwegian Review of Architecture) has published an article on the barn conversion project here

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Erlend Skjeseth gave a talk to students and staff at Technische Universität Braunschweig Link

We have been granted permission to renovate and extend a log cabin in Nordmarka despite a complex planning process. See more here

Kastler Skjeseth lectured at HEAD Geneva as part of the conference titled " Entanglements between Heritage and Media" Link to presentation here

The article we wrote about the experiences of working on our first built project is now online, available to read in Norwegian here

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