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NTNU – THE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE AND FINE ART
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KNOWLEDGE
How to get there?
Evaluate your education
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Construction
Building practice
Workshops
Case studies
+ NTNU has a lot of focus on field trips and
case studies, but even more would be
beneficial.
Materials
Material library
Building practice
Case studies
Internship
+Whole semester of tectonic building in first
year
+ Visit to cement factory
-‐ No company presentations
-‐ No relationship with building companies
and material producers
Architecture Theories:
history, economy,
politics, geography
Reading
Lectures
Essay writing
Excursions
Debating
Discussions
Case studies
Using history in design process
+ Case studies are great
+Traveling is very educational
-‐ Follow-‐ups on essay writing and readings is
rare.
-‐ The theories are not taken seriously
Anthropology & User
needs
Self and user reflection
Interviews with different types of people
& clients
-‐ Too much of an ‘architecture bubble’. NTNU
focus more on assuming what people think
and want rather than interviewing and
finding out the reality.
Economic references
Case studies
Calculating costs
-‐ Basic economic understanding is missing
Sustainability -‐ Climate
Discussion – even with non-‐architects
Looking back at history
Lectures based on experience
Workshops
Interaction with society through
internships and community service
-‐ Interdisciplinary work (to learn from other
fields) is non-‐existent
-‐ No interaction with professionals
Space quality & scale
Space and room experimentation
Measuring and understanding size
Building models
+ Roomlab & Daylab
+ Techtonics in Ark3 – discussions and
reflections on what makes a good space
-‐ Should be more clear about what makes
something a good/bad space
-‐Roomlab & Daylab should be available to all
year students
-‐Space studies not integrated into the
curriculum and must be done by own
initiative (particularly scale 1:1)
Real world
understanding
Real life projects
-‐ Could be more challenging and realistic
Regulations
Books/Internet reading
Test our projects
Learn how to implement into design
process Make a course about laws and regulations
-‐ No access to Norwegian standards of
building
-‐ Very little talk about regulations