The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) offers a unique research-based education of international standing. Established in 1945, it has built a solid national funding base and is prominently ranked internationally. AHO awards three Master's degrees in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Design and a Ph.D. program.
The school follows a studio-based model with a faculty-to-student ratio that encourages individual development and collaboration in its education. The school has approximately 650 students.
AHO offers Master's degree programs designed to equip the student best to enter directly into professional practice or academia. Within the Master's programs, students may specialize in architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism, industrial design, interaction design, service, and systems-oriented design.
The school also offers post-professional Master's courses in urban studies and architectural conservation. AHO offers a single type of doctoral degree, the Doctor of Philosophy.
The Ph.D. program is organized as a separate academic and administrative unit. The program includes approximately 50 Ph.D. candidates who, along with AHO's established academic staff, research artistic and academic problems.
Four institutes—Institute of Architecture, Institute of Urbanism and Landscape, Institute of Form, Theory, and History, and Institute of Design—organize the education at AHO. Each Institute has its research center that informs and inspires teaching and practice.
As an international school, AHO's Master's programs are taught in English. International students constitute 25% of the Master's students and 50% of the Ph.D. candidates.
The school boasts three unique workshops for wood, plastic, and metal, alongside a full-scale construction hall, Rapid manufacturing labs, libraries, and the most current IT resources. Studios, data labs, and unstaffed workshops are open to students 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The international faculty consists of academics and practicing professionals who provide the necessary breadth needed for a contemporary architecture and design education.
AHO is located in Oslo's center, at Vulkan, a revitalized industrial area near the Aker River. An innovative, creative, and cultural part of the city. The school lies adjacent to the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and the recently opened Food Hall.
