23/08/2026
A trip as an architect is never just a trip
When you’re an architect, you somehow never travel just to “see a city.”
You look at façades.
At the way light enters interiors.
At how a building interacts with people.
At materials, details, proportions, and the quiet spaces between buildings.
That’s exactly what Oslo is about for me.
Here, contemporary architecture doesn’t try to shout. It often speaks quietly — through form, material, light, and its relationship with nature.
And I catch myself constantly saving things along the way: a detail, a texture, an unexpected solution, an interesting combination of materials, the way a building sits within the urban landscape.
Not because I’ll necessarily use it in a project tomorrow.
But because, as architects, we are constantly developing our visual library.
We collect visual experiences even when we don’t yet know where they will eventually take us.
And perhaps that’s one of the most special things about travelling as an architect:
you don’t come home with just photographs.
You come home with new questions, ideas, feelings, and dozens of small details that quietly become part of your professional memory.
And Oslo is definitely a city you want to look at — really look at.
