Erik Fenstad Langdalen

• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2025). Subtraction. In Fleckner, Uwe & Lending, Mari (Ed.), Provenance in Architecture. A Dictionary. Hatje Cantz Verlag. ISSN 9783775761147. p. 192–194. doi: https:/www.hatjecantz.com/products/83100-provenance-in-architecture?srsltid=AfmBOoqUeUcDcRAkbEv7NesaU6MVCJDUlVkEZJS1RDDFynS9quQ6L8KZ. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  With Eero Saarinen's former US Embassy in Oslo as a case, this essay discusses how removal of historical substance can be a preservation strategy

• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2025). Reconstruction. In Fleckner, Uwe & Lending, Mari (Ed.), Provenance in Architecture. A Dictionary. Hatje Cantz Verlag. ISSN 9783775761147. p. 165–166. doi: https:/www.hatjecantz.com/products/83100-provenance-in-architecture?srsltid=AfmBOoqUeUcDcRAkbEv7NesaU6MVCJDUlVkEZJS1RDDFynS9quQ6L8KZ. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Taking Matias Faldbakkens memorial for the victims of the 2011 Oslo terror attack "Upholding" as a contemporary example, this essay scrutinizes the origins and the history of the term Authenticity

• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2025). Patina. In Fleckner, Uwe & Lending, Mari (Ed.), Provenance in Architecture. A Dictionary. Hatje Cantz Verlag. ISSN 9783775761147. p. 142–143. doi: https:/www.hatjecantz.com/products/83100-provenance-in-architecture?srsltid=AfmBOoqUeUcDcRAkbEv7NesaU6MVCJDUlVkEZJS1RDDFynS9quQ6L8KZ. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  With the fire-damaged Dombås church in Norway as a focal point, this essay contemplate how patina can be understood in new ways

• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2025). Authenticity. In Fleckner, Uwe & Lending, Mari (Ed.), Provenance in Architecture. A Dictionary. Hatje Cantz Verlag. ISSN 9783775761147. p. 36–37. doi: https:/www.hatjecantz.com/products/83100-provenance-in-architecture?srsltid=AfmBOoqUeUcDcRAkbEv7NesaU6MVCJDUlVkEZJS1RDDFynS9quQ6L8KZ. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Taking a painting of the assembly room in the Norwegian parliament by the artist Oscar Wergeland and the Eidsvold Building as points of departure, this essay contemplates the ambigious nature of the term Authenticity

• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2016). Utopia and conservation. In Roberts, Bryony (Eds.), Tabula Plena: Forms of Urban Preservation. Lars Müller Publishers. ISSN 9783037784914. p. 136–147. Full text in Research Archive
• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2016). (Pre)Served at the Table. In Otero-Pailos, Jorge; Langdalen, Erik Fenstad & Arrhenius, Thordis Eva K (Ed.), Experimental Preservation. Lars Müller Publishers. ISSN 9783037784921. p. 168–183. Full text in Research Archive
• Langdalen, Erik Fehnstad (2010). Under pressure. In Skodvin, Børre (Eds.), Project: House Kollstrøm/Østberg, architect: Knut Hjeltnes AS sivilarkitekter. Pax Forlag. ISSN 9788253033297. p. 10–18. Full text in Research Archive

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• Lending, Mari & Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2021). Sverre Fehn, Nordic Pavilion, Venice Voices from the Archive. Mari Lending og Erik Langdalen. Lars Müller Publishers. ISBN 9788253042206. 296 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2021). Essayet "Arkitektur - Beretningen om hvordan visjonære arkitektoniske ideer fant veien til Høvikodden, i boken "Hennes form – Sonja Henie 1912–1969". Press Forlag. ISBN 9788232804436. 204 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Lending, Mari & Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2021). Sverre Fehn, Nordic Pavilion, Venice. Voices from the Archives. Lars Müller Publishers. ISBN 9783037786390. 296 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2018). Concrete Oslo. Torpedo Press. ISBN 9788293104230. 495 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad; Szacka, Lea-Catherine; Roede, Ingrid Dobloug & Rojas, Claudia Andrea Pinochet (2018). Concrete Oslo (managing editor). Torpedo. ISBN 9788293104230. 496 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Otero-Pailos, Jorge; Langdalen, Erik Fenstad & Arrhenius, Thordis Eva K (2016). Experimental Preservation. Lars Müller Publishers. ISBN 9783037784921. 192 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad & Siem, Birgitte (2015). PoMo, The dream, the history, the museum | Orfeus Publishing. Orfeus Forlag. ISBN 9788293959267. 250 p. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Monica T. Reitan and Ole-Robert Reitan had a plan to a bring world-class modern art to Trondheim. In the former post office building, in the heart of Trondheim, the doors opened in February 2025 to a completely new cultural arena, PoMo. In addition to the founders' story told to Agnes Moxnes, the book contains a comprehensive text by architect Erik F. Langdalen about the Art Nouveau building's complicated transformation from post office and office building to a contemporary modern museum building. Dan Thawley conveys the French-Iranian architect India Mahdavi's colorful interior philosophy, while artist and author Matias Faldbakken fantasizes about post offices then and now, with Giovanni Piranesi (1720-1778) as the focal point. Artist Eline Mugaas contributes with the photo essay "Posthus mortem."The work is richly illustrated with historical and new photographs. A content-rich gift book for everyone interested in art and culture.

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• Callejas, Luis & Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2025). Eu Mies award nomination. The former US embassy in Oslo. doi: https:/eumiesawards.com/heritageobject/the-former-american-embassy-in-norway/. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The Embassy is a project that transforms the former US Embassy in Norway. The project was originally designed by the American architect Eero Saarinen, as one of only three buildings in Europe. The building is both restored and adapted to new use with a large new addition under the building.

• Callejas, Luis & Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2025). Award of Excellence Modernism in America Award. DOCOMOMO Renovation of the former US embassy in Oslo originally designed by Eero Saarinen. doi: https:/docomomo-us.org/register/former-us-embassy-oslo-norway. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  A Civic/Institutional Design Award of Excellence is given for the restoration and adaptive reuse of the former U.S. Embassy in Oslo, Norway. This 1959 chancery, designed by Eero Saarinen, is a significant example of postwar Modernist architecture, embodying American values during the Cold War. Saarinen's striking design, particularly the precast concrete facades, was a technological first for Norway. Over decades, the façades had faded and deteriorated. The preservation team treated damaged areas, and the entire surface was buffed by hand, restoring the original sheen. An underground extension and a discreet rooftop addition were added to meet current needs without altering the building’s external appearance. Landmarked interiors, including the atrium and ambassador's office, were restored with sustainable materials while retaining character defining features. The U.S. State Department has been decommissioning and selling off its Modernist embassies, and many are being demolished, gutted or altered beyond recognition. Docomomo US has long advocated for preservation of these buildings, many of which are highly significant. This project is a rare example of an entire embassy building being saved and carefully restored.

• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad & Coates, Nicholas Ryan (2025). The Provanance of a Kunsthalle. doi: https:/provenanceprojected.no/events/the-provanance-of-a-kunsthalle. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This exhibition explores the material provenance of Kunstnernes hus through investigations of building materials, technical infrastructure, lighting, maintenance systems, exhibition armature and more. Through archival studies and on-site surveys, 15 students from The Oslo School of Architecture and Design have excavated the production history, sourcing, economy, usage, ownership history, and alteration records of the building’s facades, spaces, structure, components, materials, and artworks. By constructing an alternative history, this exhibition challenges the way we understand and assess the building and might change the way we transform it for the future.

• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2025). CARRY: Circulation, relocation, and the politics of provenance. doi: https:/provenanceprojected.no/events/fragments-of-the-imagination-columbia-university-new-york. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The 2025 Fitch Colloquium, titled Fragments of the Imagination: Provenance, Preservation, and the Afterlives of Architecture, brings together leading voices in preservation, architecture, art history, museum practice, and the humanities to examine the conceptual, ethical, and artistic stakes of working with architectural fragments. Organized by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) in collaboration with Provenance Projected the colloquium asks: How might architectural fragments be mobilized to reimagine the built environment; not as static inheritance, but as a site of imaginative transformation? How can institutions such as museums, archives, and landmark commissions be rethought in light of the provenance and circulation of architectural fragments? How does provenance shape disciplinary knowledge and epistemologies within architecture, preservation, art, and beyond?

• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2025). Oceanic Monuments. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Midway between Shetland and Norway, six concrete structures dramatically protrude the water plane, all cylindrical in shape and equipped with lanterns to prevent ship collisions. The shimmering North Sea surface conceals three gigantic underwater foundations sitting on the seabed 100 meters below: two of which are built as clusters of concrete cylinders numbering 23 and 16 respectively, each cylinder measuring 42 meters in height and 20 meters in diameter, and a third formed as a large concrete plinth with a diameter of 101 meters. The drilling holes reach almost to 2 kilometres below the seabed. Today, the structures have no function except for acting as artificial reefs for marine life, as potential depositories for CO2 - and as enigmatic oceanic monuments. With the Frigg field as a point of departure, this paper discusses how the turning of the petroleum industry into heritage challenges concurrent ideas of how to define and manage cultural heritage as well as contemplate on how this might pose an opportunity to rethink the way we can act in the future.

• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2025). PoMo in Circulation. In Siem, Birgitte (Eds.), PoMo, The dream, the history, the museum | Orfeus Publishing. Orfeus Forlag. ISSN 9788293959267. doi: https:/www.orfeuspublishing.com/en/product-page/pomo-the-dream-the-history-the-museum. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Essay in book "PoMo, The Dream, The Dream, The Museum" about the conception and construction of a new art museum in Trondheim with a focus on the building culture in the city in the early 20th century.

• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad & Coates, Nicholas Ryan (2024). The Provenance of an Art Center. doi: https:/provenanceprojected.no/events/the-provenance-of-an-art-center. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This exhibition explores the full material provenance of the Henie Onstad Art Centre (HOK), including building materials, technical infrastructure, furniture, display systems, lighting fixtures, maintenance systems and more. By thorough investigation of the archives, and through on-site survey of the building, nine students and two teachers from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) have excavated the ownership history, production history, economy, sourcing, usage and alteration records of its components and materials. By constructing an alternative history of the building, this exhibition challenges the way we understand and assess buildings - and might change the way we transform them for the future.

• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad & Lending, Mari (2024). Fehn i verden. Arkitektur. ISSN 2704-0925. Full text in Research Archive
• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2024). Sverre Fehn og ingeniørene. Arkitektur. ISSN 2704-0925. Full text in Research Archive
• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad; Coates, Nicholas Ryan & Pløhn, Kim (2024). Petroarkitektur. Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7005. Full text in Research Archive
• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2024). Tilfellet Haugenstua. In Høi, Arne; Jørgensen, Morten Birk; Brogren, Thomas & Stybe, Sidsel Dyhl (Ed.), Klimavisioner for modernismens bygningskultur : Etageboligbebyggelser 1930-1974. Realdania. ISSN 9788793360464. p. 166–183. Full text in Research Archive
• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2021). Arkitektur – Beretningen om hvordan visjonære arkitektoniske ideer fant veien til Høvikodden. In Varvin, Gunhild (Eds.), Hennes form - Sonja Henie 1912-1969. Press Forlag. ISSN 9788232804436. Full text in Research Archive
• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2017). Asken og ilden. [Journal]. Arkitektnytt. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Interview on Experimental preservation

• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2016). Kronikk: "Hvordan ville et nytt regjeringskvartal se ut hvis «bevaringsutvikleren» fikk slippe til?". [Journal]. Aftenposten. Full text in Research Archive
• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2016). Preservation as battle zone. Full text in Research Archive
• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2013). Bokanmeldelse: "Utsikter - Norge sett fra veien 1733-2020". Arkitektur N. ISSN 1504-7628. Full text in Research Archive
• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2012). THe eye of the tourist. Full text in Research Archive
• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2012). Arkitektur som identitesbygging. Full text in Research Archive
• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2011). Ganske rocka - om Rockheim og bygningsvern (byggomtale). Arkitektur N. ISSN 1504-7628. p. 62–69. Full text in Research Archive
• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2011). Discords (anmeldelse av utstillingen "Brytninger: Norsk arkitektur 1945-65"). European Architectural History Network Newsletter. ISSN 1997-5023. Full text in Research Archive
• Langdalen, Erik Fenstad (2013). Farmlife : AHO master course spring 2013. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive

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