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AWARD WINNER: Professor Karin Helms has been awarded the ECLAS Outstanding Educator Award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to advancing knowledge, understanding, and professional skills in landscape architecture.

At the spring 2026 awards ceremony, 16 prizes were awarded to the best projects from the semester. See all the winning projects here.

GRADUATION SPEECH: Many of society’s greatest challenges cannot be solved by a single discipline alone. You have what it takes to help address them - because you know how to connect different fields.

Norway’s exhibition of children’s book illustrations became a major attraction at the international children’s book fair in Bologna. “An incredibly beautiful, eye-catching and eloquent exhibition,” says NORLA director Margit Walsø.

RESEARCH: Lloyd’s Register Foundation is funding a new research project at AHO that aims to change how zero-emission ships are designed by putting people at the centre.

At the award ceremony held in January, five prizes were awarded to the best projects from the autumn semester. See all the winning projects here.

GRADUATION: The world needs you, precisely because you build, draw, and design for people, challenges rector Irene Alma Lønne in her graduation speech at AHO.

COLLABORATION: “You will map the root causes of the problems in the water systems around the Oslo Fjord, and propose solutions to revitalize the fjord." This was the task that master's students in design had to solve I seven immersive weeks."

From 2026, non-EU/EEA and Swiss students will pay NOK 150,000 per year at AHO, while education remains free for EU/EEA and Swiss students.

In the awards ceremony for the spring of 2025, 19 prizes were awarded to the best projects of the semester. See all the winning projects here.

GRADUATION: You step out into a world that needs you—not despite the crises, but because of them. Your professions—architecture, design, and landscape architecture—are not just relevant; they are necessary. Thank you for giving us hope, encouraged Rector Irene Alma Lønne in her graduation speech at AHO.

COLLABORATION: Kongsberg Gruppen ASA (KONGSBERG) has entered into an institutional collaboration agreement with the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) to strengthen the work on user-oriented innovation of technology and workplaces. 

KNOWLEDGE @AHO: Public services can become more flexible and effective if those closest to the challenges the challenges have a greater role in shaping them. A new study explores how this can be achieved.

Congratulations to all the winners of this semester's AHO WORKS AWARDS! In the award ceremony for spring 2023, 18 prizes were awarded. Read more about all the winning projects here.

Before the diploma ceremony on 20 January, three prizes were awarded in the AHO WORKS AWARDS for the best diploma projects from the semester. Congratulations to the winners!

In the awards ceremony for the autumn of 2023, 18 prizes were awarded to the best projects of the semester – see all the winning projects here.

In the awards ceremony for the spring of 2024, 18 prizes were awarded to the best projects of the semester – see all the winning projects here.

The winning project “Parking housing: Inhabiting Sannergata 14” explores a parking house in Oslo’s potential to be used for housing.

Last week, only one week before the application deadline, aspiring international AHO master students were informed with disappointing news. A new tuition fee set at NOK 363 550 will be installed effective as of autumn semester 2023, for new students from outside the EU/EEA. (The tuition fee has since been revised.) This is why.