asBUILT documents in meticulous detail the many co-existing idioms in contemporary Norwegian architecture. Each book presents one building, complete with working drawings, technical specifications, photographs as well as a discursive essay.Contemporary building practices represent a slowly developing cultural competence of systems, methods, and techniques that rely on a certain dissemination in order to prosper. In the world of gastronomy, one generously share recipes. Highlighting the very translation from concept to physical object and from drawings to completed building, asBUILT establishes a space for similarly exchanging built experience, hoping in this way to fuel the metabolism of architecture. asBUILT makes the archives public by providing a template for publishing. The series offers a systematic depository of knowledge to inform contemporary practice, and documents architectural history in the making.

Published books:

asBUILT #1 2010 Pålsbu Hydro Power Station - manthey kula
asBUILT #2 2010 House Kollstrøm/Østberg - Knut Hjeltnes Sivilarkitekter
asBUILT #3 2010 Østfold University College - Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter
asBUILT #4 2011 V-House - Spacegroup
asBUILT #5 2011 Farm House - Jarmund/Vigsnæs Architects
asBUILT #6 2011 Two Summer Houses - Arne Henriksen Arkitekter

Excerpt from Farm House Book

Available in the reception at AHO, or at PAX Forlag.