01/05/2026
Creative Director at Oslotre As, Jørgen Tycho, has written a piece in Arkitektur about why the future cannot be built with yesterday’s logic.
The architecture debate is far too often about style: ugly or beautiful, classical or modern, ornament or smooth façades. But the challenge goes deeper than the façade.
Architecture in our time is about repairing the relationship between people and nature. About building durably, sensitively to place, and with resources in mind. About healthier spaces, less waste, lower emissions, and a stronger connection to place, history, and everyday life.
We do not need nostalgia. Nor do we need more of the same: more concrete, more technology, more complexity, and more bureaucracy.
We need a new building culture.
A building culture rooted in renewable, cultivable, and intelligent materials. One that uses forests, timber, and bio-based materials wisely. One that combines old material knowledge with new technology, prefabrication, and digital production.
Norway has the forests. We have the building traditions. We have the technology. We have the knowledge.
Now we need ambition, new thinking, and politicians who dare to make this a strategy for the future.
Good for the planet. Good for people. In symbiosis with nature. 😊
Det er på tide at arkitektene tar ordet tilbake. Ikke for å diskutere stil alene, men for å vise vei inn i en ny tid, skriver Jørgen Tycho.
