Ketil Kiran
building image from RIAS for Convention
Ketil Kiran
ARCHUS Architects, Norway
Ketil started with a long section on Norway’s reduction in tourist numbers, enough to lift us Scots from our own gloomy situation. He maintained that Norway’s identity related to nature and suggested architecture could save the ‘brand’. Ketil Kiran talked about new fast roads that ‘disconnect the traveller from the stories of communities on the way’. He suggested that nothing happened on the roads without the agreement of the architectural committee, and that they didn’t upgrade, but instead retained character: ‘we want something new we want something fresh….accentuation of what is already present’; experience can lead to ‘soporific mediocrity’.
[Adrian Welch] RIAS Convention 05.05.03
Nordic Architecture
Architecture Books
World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe
Norwegian Architects
Buildings / photos for the ARCHUS Architects page welcome: info@e-architect.co.uk
ARCHUS Architects buildings - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt
Website: www.archus.no