Guest lecture: Fantastic Norway

Fantastic Norway AS is an architectural studio founded in 2004 by Håkon Matre Aasarød and Erlend Blakstad Haffner. The initial ambition was to create an open, including and socially aware architectural practice and to re-establish the architect as an active participant and a constructor of society.

The studio is engaged with architecture and installations as well as mobilisation processes, development strategies and lecturing, primarily working in the field of culture, tourism and commercial building. Their clients span from local communities to private investors and public institutions. 

Fantastic Norway was proclaimed “Architects of the Year” at the Oscar Hansen Symposium in Bergen/Norway in 2005 and received the “FAD medal of honour” for “best international practice” in Barcelona/Spain in 2007. The office is exhibiting at the international pavilion in Venice at the 2008 architectural biennale. The Fantastic Norway headquarters is situated in Oslo/Norway.