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NEW COST Action: Connecting Landscape Architecture Archives

The Historical Archive of Norwegian Landscape Architecture (ANLA) is a founding member of the Network of European Landscape Architecture Archives (NELA). Since the network's establishment in 2019, the…

Villahage 1930-tallet

PhD with an important contribution to Norwegian landscape architecture

In May 2024, Berit Rønsen defended her dissertation titled 'Norwegian Garden Art in a Modern Society – 1930-50: Intentions and Ideals in a Time of Change.' This is a PhD dissertation that is based on …

Panel discussion (photo by Ingrid Merete Ødegård) during "Changing profession of landscape architecture in the 1960s-70s".

Changing profession of landscape architecture in the 1960s-70s

Changing profession of landscape architecture in the 1960s-70s. A workshop and symposium organised for ‘IFLA Histories 75’ project.

Foundation meeting at Jesus College in Cambridge in 1948. Elise Sørsdal was one of the founding members. (Image from Magne Bruun, 75 år for landskap og utemiljø: Norske landskapsarkitekters forening 1929-2004 (NHL, 2004) , p. 164. Original image CIVA,

IFLA 75: Uncovering hidden histories in Landscape Architecture

In 2023, the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) celebrates its 75th anniversary.

Digitaliseringsprosjekt ANLA

Archives and Digital Technologies - an innovative approach in landscape architecture education

This article presents an innovative approach that combines historical archival research with digital technologies in landscape architecture education. 

Digitizing slide images from the last century

Digitizing images from the last century

In late 2021, Historical Archive of Norwegian Landscape Architecture (ANLA) was awarded the status of “NMBU’s strategic research infrastructure”.

Female pioneers in landscape architecture

Where are the women in Scandinavian landscape architecture?

Women professionals and their work are relatively unseen in the history of Landscape architecture. This is also the case in our Archive, where the majority of the collections are male contributions – …

Kvinnelige pionerer i landskapsarkitektur

Female pioneers in the discipline of garden architecture in Norway

On the International Women’s Day, we highlight some of the first female garden architects in Norway.

Using Archives in the Teaching of Freehand Drawing

Using archive material in the teaching of freehand drawing

This article invites the reader to think about how archive material can be used in the teaching of freehand drawing for landscape architecture students.

Exhibition opening in February 2019, National Museum Norway

Historical Archive of Norwegian Landscape Architecture in an Exhibition in the National Museum - Architecture

In 2019 it is 100 years since landscape architecture was taught for the first time in Ås Norway. The National Museum – Architecture in collaboration with the School of Landscape Architecture at NMBU m…