Welcome to Bergen School of Architecture

On saturday 29th of August at 18.00.

Bergen Arkitekthøgskole has invited Gian A. Caminada to have an open lecture at Bergen Kjøtt.
The lecture will be presented in Fabrikkhallen, with the bar open on the ground floor before and after the lecture.

On 1 September 2026 at 12 o’clock, exactly 40 years will have passed since BAS first opened its doors. To celebrate, we will be sharing congratulations, cake and a performance by Kurt Johannessen.

Kurt has been part of BAS since 1987, when he began teaching at the school. Through his performances and books, he has explored how simple actions, gestures and ideas can open up new ways of experiencing and understanding space. His work has helped shape BAS’s approach to architecture as something that emerges through the relationships between body, action and the spaces we create together.

Architectural Practice is a lecture series inviting exemplary practices from across the globe to share their ongoing body of work. The series is curated by Cristian Ștefănescu (Associate Professor, BAS & founder of  Cristian Ștefănescu Architect) and co-hosted by the Bergen School of Architecture (BAS) and Bergen Society of Architects (BAF).

Doors open at 18:45 Lectures start at 19:00 Free entrance!

Facbook event: https://fb.me/e/badHkfdvJ

Philip Christou (UK/CAN)

Philip Christou is an architect, artist and architectural educator, born in Alberta, Canada. He was educated at McGill University, Montreal, before studying Fine Art at the University of Lethbridge and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. Philip then moved to London where he studied at the Architectural Association.

For a number of years, Philip worked alongside Florian Beigel in the Architecture Research Unit (ARU), London Metropolitan University. Since its inception in 1974, the ARU acted as a design laboratory for design-based research, conducting building studies across a variety of scales, and mediums. This practice was seen as a methodology for producing innovative responses to architecture, interiors and urban design. Conceived as a single function, thinking and doing were amalgamated through a synthesis of drawing, making and building. As the ARU, Florian and Philip designed several buildings, including the Youhwadang book hall and the Youlhwadang publishing houses, as well as formulating the urban and landscape design, all at Paju Book City, outside of Seoul.

The scope of the ARU went beyond building and alongside students, published several books including ‘Urban Figures’ and ‘Baukunst: The Art of Building’. These were self-published under the ARU moniker and provided an on-going reference point for students and professionals alike. In addition to these books of architectural reference projects, they wrote and designed several books on their own works that were published elsewhere, including: ‘Architecture as City: Saemangeum Island City’, ‘The Idea of City’, and ‘Translations’.

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Image Credits
Jonathan Lovekin / Phil Sayer