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Fantastic Norway AS is an architectural studio founded in 2004 by Erlend Blakstad Haffner and Håkon Matre Aasarød.

Between 2004-2007 the duo travelled around in Norway in a red caravan, anchoring themselves in towns where change were needed. The initial ambition was to create an open, including and socially aware architectural practice and to re-establish the architect as an active participant and a constructor of society.

The studio is currently engaged with architecture and installations as well as mobilization processes, development strategies and lecturing.

Clients span from local communities to private investors and public institutions. Fantastic Norway primarily work in the field of culture, tourism and commercial building. In addition to traditional commissions they initiate projects themselves and organize the financial and political anchoring of them.

Fantastic Norway believes places are stitched together by the stories and lives of people living there. Every client is different; every place is in some way peculiar. They aim to embrace this fact and through dialogue transform it into architecture.

In addition to their practice Fantastic Norway work closely with the Norwegian Broadcasting Company, in developing a prime time TV program on architecture, named “Fantastic Norway”.

Fantastic Norway was proclaimed “Architects of the Year” at the Oscar Hansen Symposium in Bergen/Norway in 2005 and received the “FAD medal of honor” for “best international practice” in Barcelona/Spain in 2007. The office was exhibiting at the international pavilion in Venice at the 2008 architectural biennale where they where chosen among top 10 of the exhibitions in metropolis magazine and

Haffner and Aasarød both received Bachelors in architecture at Bergen School of architecture in 2003, Haffner continued his education in london and did his M.arch at london metropolitan university. Aasarød did his masters at Oslo school of architecture.

Academia

Fantastic Norway currently runs a master class at Bergen School of Architecture

Fantastic Norway has lectured at Cornell University, Ithaca. McGill University, Montreal, Ryerson University, Toronto. The Architectural association, London, Iaspis, Stockholm, Arkitekturmuseet, Stockholm. The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Aarhus. School of Architecture, Denmark, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

Links

http://www.britannica.com/bps/additionalcontent/18/36934692/How-to-be-a-young-architect http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/10-things-to-see-at-the-venice-architecture-biennale/1851710.article http://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/erlend-blakstad-haffner-qa/2693 http://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/venice-biennale-2008/2691 http://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/interactive-floor-plan-trondheim-cabin/2879 http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20080919/your-venice-party-guide http://www.dezeen.com/2008/09/13/venice-architecture-biennale-giardini-pavilions/ http://www.dezeen.com/2010/01/22/eurovisions-by-fantastic-norway/ http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20071219/fantastic-duo http://www.iconeye.com/index.php?view=article&catid=421%3Aicon-065--november-2008&layout=default&id=3822%3Afantastic-norway&option=com_content http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/?em3106=236599_-1__0_~0_-1_5_2008_0_0&em3161=&em3281=