Lothar Diem is a PhD candidate in the research project Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture, in the Department of From, Theory and History at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. His research project studies the concepts of original and copy applied to enactment-based cultural heritage. This investigation involves discussions on displacement and display, related to copies of intangible cultural heritage. The disserations working title is ”Origin and displacement: enactment-based cultural heritage”.
Fall 2010, Diem was part time teacher at FTHs studio Re-store with professor Thordis Arrhenius and PhD-candidate Mattias Ekman. In 2011, he has been the coordinator for the postprofessional master courses in conservation and urbanism at AHO.
Diem holds a degree in architecture from AHO, while parts of his architectural education is from Technische Universität München. He also holds a postmaster degree in architectural heritage from AHO. Diem has been a practicing architect in Oslo since 2001.