Manthey Kula is honoured to be invited as speakers to the World Congress of Architects in Barcelona in the session Becoming Embodied. The session brings together spatial and material explorations shaped by specific topographies and geographies. Through typological variation, formal articulation, material legibility, and structural expression, the projects engage cultural contexts and territorial orography.

Online lecture April 20.

Public lecture March 13.

Lecture and reviews in the Atelier Clancy Moore.

We are excited about being selected to design next year’s exhibition on architect Wenche Selmer at the National Museum.

Photo: Line Løkken

Online lecture on the work of Manthey Kula at Sarasar, Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, Tehran, Iran.

Upcoming lecture

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We are happy to announce that we are among three selected teams for a limited competition for a new mobility hub in Hyllie, Sweden. We will be collaborating with architects Gatun and Lundvall Payne and engineers Price & Myers.

AMAG 35 presents work by LCLA, Sanden + Hodnekvam Architects and Manthey Kula

A+U monograph on Manthey Kula is out.

Beate Hølmebakk is part of the international jury for the international competition for The New Museum of Architecture and Design in Helsinki.

Beate Hølmebakk will be part of the international jury for the European prize for urban public space.

We are honored to have been selected as one of ten competitors for the new National Memorial for 22 July in Oslo’s New Government Quarters.

Monograph about the Hamburgö house in the asBUILT series. The book contains an essay by Per Olaf Fjeld, all working drawings and photos by Karin Björkquist, Sébastien Corbari and Mikael Olsson.

The exhibition 'Hollein Calling. Architectural Dialogues' was preceded by an interview project where 50 European architecture offices were asked about their relationship to Hans Hollein. Now they all come together in a conversation at Architekturzentrum Wien.

And reviews in the Atelier Clancy Moore.

The exhibition explores the Hollein phenomenon from a contemporary perspective, re-evaluating his work and its relevance to the current discourse through a dialogue with a younger generation of architects.

The book presents younger architecture firms in dialogue with the work of Austrian Pritzker Prize laureate Hans Hollein (1934–2014): Almannai Fischer, Baukuh, Bovenbouw, Claudia Cavallar, Asli Çiçek, Conen Sigl, Doorzon, Expanded Design, Martin Feiersinger, David Kohn, Kuehn Malvezzi, Lütjens Padmanabhan, Manthey Kula, Monadnock, and OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen

Giving a talk about our work to the Porto Academy during their summer school in Sweden.

As preparation for a new book in the Project Stories series, we gave a lecture in Bergen on the Forvik ferry port. Project Stories takes an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the stories of built projects to offer an insight into the nature of architectural practice today. Project stories is the outcome of an ongoing lecture series that began in 2019, curated by Cristian Stefanescu, hosted by the Bergen School of Architecture with support from Bergen Arkitektforening.

Seminar discussing the New European Bauhaus initiative:

Beautiful are the places, practices and experiences that are:

Enriching, inspired by art and culture, responding to needs beyond functionality.

Sustainable, in harmony with nature, the environment, and our planet.

Inclusive, encouraging a dialogue across cultures, disciplines, genders and ages.

Three projects on show at gallery SPARK in Malmö.

Large presentation of our work in the Argentinian magazine PLOT.

Project meeting combined with a great trip to Köln and Insel Hombroich.

Manthey Kula receives third prize in the open competition for a coffee shop in Brunnsparken, Gothenburg.

Beate Hømebakk and Per Tamsen receive Prince Eugen medals for outstanding artistic achievement.

Photo: Jonas Borg

Beate Hølmebakk gives a public talk as part of Against the Norm series at Hochschule Biberach, Germany.

Beate Hølmebakk lectures at the Austin School of Architecture, Texas.

Public talk

The Ernst Strassacker foundry has been casting bronze since 1919. The labor intensive work with the columns includes high tech digital production, heavy industrial processes and precision craftsmanship.

Large blocks of Norwegian Anortositt are waiting to be cut and bush hammered. The slabs are up to 1,8 x 2,3 m.

The arches were transported by helicopter and joined on site. The foundation of the house consists of four stainless steel brackets placed with precision and bolted to the bedrock.

Inspecting the area behind the memorial with regards to loose rocks and security measures. Inside you see how the drinking water of Tyrifjorden is secured against dirt from the building site with a double filter-curtain.

Finally on site work for the National Memorial at Utøyakaia can begin.

The Virginia series - four houses based on female literary characters - was made between 1997-2001. he series include four large models in scale 1:20 and twenty-three large pencil drawings: House for a Young Woman, House for a Mother and a Child, House for a Housewife and House for a Widow. Pine wood, mdf, veneer, sepia ink, plaster and acrylic.

Beate Hølmebakk interviewed about the Postludes exhibition in April 2020.

The four jigs of plywood were tested and measured on site in order to have the final brackets of stainless steel positioned correctly on the bedrock.

Seventeen 50 cm deep holes of 40 mm diameter make up the foundation for the house which will span 29 meters. Later on stainless steel rods are anchored in the holes and welded to brackets designed individually to meet the terrain.

Study trip for architectural inspiration.

Solo exhibition showing paperworks developed from working drawings of the office’s projects.

We are happy to be among the chosen contributors to the celebration of the Danish Landscape Magazine’s 100 years anniversary. Our project is 40 fictive landscape images produced from areal photos of Norway’s main land nature reserves.

Two projects between architecture and landscape architecture; one about memory and reflection, the other about experiencing nature in the city.

Beate Hølmebakk is head of the jury for the Kasper Salin Prize 2020. The prize was presented to Malmström Edström architects for the residential project Viva in Gothenburg.

The Architecture, Art and Photography table and one of the prints from Per Berntsen’s Metsä series: the pavilion is ready to receive its visitors. More than 300 000 people visited the fair. (Photo Luis Callejas)

Beate Hølmebakk represented in Breaking Ground, Architecture by Women, Phaidon. The Forvik Ferry Stop was selected to represent the work of manthey kula in the book.

The aluminium tables have arrived from Stuttgart and are ready to be placed inside the Panorama Hall. The size of the elevator set the dimensions for the pieces. We will install the elements together with Uniplan and lcla .

The three meter long wooden model will cantilever from the railing of the exhibition space at Deutsches Architekturmuseum.

Study trip to look at exhibitions and the National 9/11 Memorial.

A full scale prototype of one of the tables for the Guest of Honor Pavillion is temporarily installed in the publishing house. We are very grateful to Gyldendal for making it possible for us to examine the structure under the roof of one of architect Sverre Fehn’s last buildings.

March 22nd we give a lecture about the work of manthey kula at Hong Kong University.

manthey kula invited to competition Restaurant and foodcourt in Flåm against Jensen & Skodvin, Saunders Architecture and Pushak.

Beate Hølmebakk gives a talk about the work of manthey kula.

Archipelago - Buildings from Solitude (on the cover), Skreda Rest Area, the Tullholmen Pier, Stella’s Room and Forvik Ferry Stop in A+U 2018:11. The issue also has an article by Beate Hølmebakk on Sverre Fehn’s influence in contemporary Norwegian architecture.

Office trip to the Venice Biennale 2018. Most enjoyed: Eduardo Souto de Moura’s Vatican Chapel a f a c i a and Elizabeth Hatz’ great exhibition of drawings Line, Light, Locus.

We are very happy to hear that the Skreda Rest Area is nominated to this prestigious prize and grateful to those who nominated the project. This is the third manthey kula project to be nominated to the MvdR Award.

Beate Hølmebakk is part of the jury for the Kasper Salin Prize 2019. The prize was presented to Collectif Encore for Villa Hamra studio residence. (Photo: Michel Bonvin)

Beate Hølmebakk gives a talk about the work of manthey kula at the Barbican center in the Architecture at Stage series. (Inside: A cross-section through the main concert hall from the original project designed by architects Chamberlin, Powell & Bon)

Beate Hølmebakk lectures in Leuven on the work of manthey kula in the Matter of Architecture series.

After 8 years in Pilestredet 75C we move the office to Rosenborggata 19B; same block, but different yard. It is a bit sad to leave the characteristic tunnel shaped space and the brick utility tower we built with C.P. and C.E. in 2010.

What a privilege to get to add a small room to this great place, beautifully transformed over the years by Knut Wold and the late Are Vesterlid.

Per Inge Bjørlo will make the artwork for the Tullholmen Pier in Karlstad. A very inspiring visit to his studio to see the idea for the sculpture.

Visit to the construction site for the Skreda Rest Area, the furniture is ready to be mounted on the platform.

First visit to the site for a new viewpoint for the National Scenic Routes. The site borders to the Atlantic ocean and the wide landscape is covered with stones brought here by the glacier, some from the eastern part of the country. What a place!

The team selected to develop the sketch project for the National Memorial at Utøyakaia: manthey kula and Bureau Bas Smets with Mattias Ekman as advisor on memorial theory.

manthey kula and LCLA win open competition for Norway’s Guest of Honour Pavilion at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Starting the plans for a summer house.

Opening of a small exhibition by manthey kula at the Museum of Cultural History. It tells the story of how stave church portals have been objects of interest for centuries.

Opening of the exhibition Det Felles Eide at Kunstnernes Hus designed by manthey kula. The exhibition shows public art acquired by the municipality of Oslo. It discusses the relation between art, architecture, urban space and the community.

It has been very interesting to work with this light sensitive exhibition at the Munch Museum; from graphic work and display cases to benches and exhibition spaces.

Visiting Skovstuen Pil to follow up on the making of the new benches for the upcoming exhibition at the Munch Museum.

Other House exhibited at CAMPO in Rome and at the Misunderstandings exhibition at the FRAC Centre, Orléans.

The project Archipelago - Building from Solitude, a commission for the FRAC Centre - Val de Loire, will be shown at the first FRAC Biennale which opens today. The five projects are developed from known information about five individuals that have experienced profound isolation across the globe and across history.

Visits from Karlstad to discuss the project for Tullholmen Pier.

Forvik Ferry Port featured in Architese 3/2017.

MK About, monograph on manthey kula, LIBRIA publishers.

Forvik Ferry Port featured in DOMUS #1015

Per Tamsen takes part in round table debate at Aarhus Festuge.

Archipelago – Buildings from Solitude; commissioned work for the Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans, Acquired by the FRAC Centre, Orléans.

The exhibition Fictions opens at Budsjord, Dovre.

Akkarvikodden roadside restroom presented in Oris #105

Manthey Kula visits Norsk PU Coating to check PU cast for furniture at Skreda rest area.

Lecture in Bogota and Medellin.

Forvik Ferry Port presented in Arkitektur N 05/2016.

Office Trip to Milano.

Work by manthey kula represented at NORWAY -  Architecture-Infrastructure-Landscape at Spazio per l’Architettura, Milano.

Ode to Osaka presented in Arkitekturårbok 2015, Pax

Casting acrylic tests for furniture at Skreda

Ode to Osaka presented in Arkitektur N 05/2015

Manthey Kula’s submission for the Yeats 150-anniversary competition featured on the cover of the book Art, architecture, and Places, WDC.

Cavinet exhibited at We Love Wood(s), Fiskaars, Finland

Ode to Osaka installation has started at the National Museum - Architecture in Oslo

Testing patterns for the Skreda furniture.

Visit to the construction site in Forvik.

Book-Crossing prototype built in Taipei.

Beate Hølmebakk interviewed in ARCHE 48-49

Project for Forvik Ferry Port presented in DOMUS #977

What Architecture Can Do; Essay by Beate Hølmebakk in Steilneset Memorial, Orkana publishers, Tromsø

Lecture at the Cass, London UK.

Through Nature opens at Munch Museum in Oslo.

Akkarvikodden roadside restroom presented in A+U 2013:11

Akkarvikodden roadside restroom presented in Arkitektur N 08/2012

House at Biristrand presented in A10 # 52

Youth facility project presented in New Nordic Catalogue, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

MK521 exhibited at the Nordic Pavilion, the Venice Biennale

SIte visit to Forvik.

Sending off Tribunal for the Displaced.

Youth Facility project exhibited at New Nordic, Lousiana Museum for Modern Art, Humlebæk

Opening of the exhibition Puberty at the Munch Musuem in Oslo.

Testing translusency for the fabric of the installation Ode to Osaka at the National Museum Architecture in Oslo.

Akkarvikodden roadside restroom nominated to the Mies van der Rohe Award 2011

Akkarvik roadside restroom presented in CASABELLA

Akkarvik roadside restroom presented in The sky is the limit, Gestalten publishers

Work by manthey kula exhibited at Detour - International travelling exhibition for the National museum - Architecture, Oslo

Beate Hølmebakk interviewed by James Payne for Building Design UK

Pålsbu hydro power station in monograph asBuilt #1, Pax publishers

Honorary mentioning in Norwegian Design Council’s innovation prize for Fishing bridges at Myrbærholmen

1. prize in invited competition for Modular hydro power stations

Beate Hølmebakk visiting professor at Cornell University, New York

Pålsbu hydro power station nominated to the Mies van der Rohe Award 2009

Pålsbu hydro power station presented Arkitektur N 04/09

Pålsbu hydro power station presented in Domus 03/2009