Even Smith Wergeland received his MA in History of Art from the University of Bergen in May 2007. He then worked as an art mediator at the Rogland Museum of Fine Arts in Stavanger from 2007 to 2008. In the same period he was employed at the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Bergen, where he gave lectures on architectural theory, the historiography of modern architecture and visual rhetorics. In 2008/2009 he was engaged as an advisor at the Department of city planning in Stavanger municipality.
Since February 2009 he has been employed as a PhD reseracher at the Institute of Form, Theory and History at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. The working title of his PhD thesis is ”From Utopia to Reality – the Motorway as a Work of Art”. The thesis, which deals with the aesheticization of motorways in post-war architectural theory, is written within the framework of the multidisciplinary research project Routes, Roads and Landscapes. Wergeland is currently enrolled as a visiting PhD student at the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Research interests
*Historiography of modern architecture *Architectural theory *Modernism *Infrastructural planning *Utopian Cityscapes *Mobility *Sports architecture