The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Institute of Architecture

About

The Oslo School of Architecture and Design is a specialised university college offering professional Master’s degree programmes at the highest level within architecture, landscape architecture and design. AHO has 650 students and 50 PhD students. Located in a vibrant and central part of Oslo, the school is a converted factory building, updated and modernised to suit the needs of its students. The school offers an international environment, nearly a 1/3 of the students at Master’s level are international students. All Master’s programmes are taught in English.

The architecture programme educates leading practitioners of the discipline. AHO is internationally respected and a preferred partner among the world’s leading universities. With a special focus on the integration of built form and the environment, it addresses contemporary issues in architecture, visions of the future and the heritage of Scandinavian design. 

AHO emphasises the relationship between thinking and building in the context of research and design, and offers a broad spectrum of approaches to architectural design. The program is organized around specific areas of focus that define individual viewpoints, whether through the particulars of architectonic realization, urban complexity and spatial development, theory’s critical challenge or the implicit value of the existing built environment.