asBUILT: 3 new books

asBUILT documents in meticulous detail the many co-existing idioms in contemporary Norwegian architecture. Each book presents one building, complete with working drawings, technical specifications, photographs as well as a discursive essay.

Contemporary building practices represent a slowly developing cultural competence of systems, methods, and techniques that rely on a certain dissemination in order to prosper. In the world of gastronomy, one generously share recipes. Highlighting the very translation from concept to physical object and from drawings to completed building, asBUILT establishes a space for similarly exchanging built experience, hoping in this way to fuel the metabolism of architecture.

asBUILT makes the archives public by providing a template for publishing. The series offers a systematic depository of knowledge to inform contemporary practice, and documents architectural history in the making.

asBUILT is published by Pax Publishing House, editors are Karl ottoEllefsen, Jan Olav Jensen, Mari Lending, and BørreSkodvin.