erlingamble.com/ About Erling

I was born in Oslo, Norway in 1948, and have lived there for the greater part of my life. The more recent years I have been living in Stockholm, Sweden.

I graduated from the Oslo School of Architecture in 1975. Since then I have been working as an Architect in 45 years. You will find more about that under the other flip.

My main interests and values are those who are given priority in this web site. I am among those who think that the environmental issues by far are the most important challenges we are facing in the world today. I am afraid that the priority we are giving to economical growth and our lack of understanding how dependent we are on all the other forms of life on this planet are in the act of driving us right into a disaster that is impossible to imagine.

Besides that I have always been a reading person and somewhat more than average interested in Theatre. I easily let myself be fascinated by a number of issues such as history, language, ethymology, mathemathics etc. On the other hand: Music is more or less a closed country for me, and I have no understanding for football. As a retired Architect I find it exciting to learn more about drawing. Besides that I love getting out in the Nature, in the forests, in the mountains and in the Oceans.

I have a grown-up daughter who lives in Oslo, while I, as I said, am living in Stockholm. I am married to Vigdis Bøhmer. She is making paintings I find fine.

I started my studies at the Oslo School of Architecture in 1968, and graduated in 1975. Thereafter I worked as an Architect in Oslo for 45 years. During the first some and twenty years I was in and out of numerous employments, mostly within smaller private Architect Offices, but I also learnt to deal with things from from inside of municipal and governmental bureaucracies. But during the last 23 years of my career I was steady employed at the Petter Bogen Arkitektkontor. Below here follows a list of some of the projects I have been involved in from 1993 onwards.

• Egebergkvartalet in Sørumsand (2014-2019) about a hundred appartments in three buildings four to six floors in the middle of a little suburban town 40 kilometers northeast of Oslo.

• Expansion and renovation of Lovisenberg Nursery College (2011-2013). Among other issues this included a total remake of an old attic into a modern hospital wing for training purposes for the nursery students.

 
 
 
 
• Strandliveikvartalet in Kolbotn (2010-2012) about a hundred appartments in five six-floors buildings in a suburban town 15 kilometers south of Oslo.
• Gaustadveien 23, Oslo (2010-2011) about 80 appartments at Øvre Sogn on the northern outskirts of Oslo

 
 
 
 
• Pilestredet 35, Oslo (2005-2007) renovation and extension of an old insurance companys building in central Oslo into education premises on a total of 26 000 m2 for what now is called the Oslo Metropolitan University.

 
 
 
 
• Lovisenberg Deaconale Hospital, renovation of the main kitchen (2003-2004) This big kitchen (600 m2) had leakege problems and was in great need of renovation. It was a rather complicated process, as it also involved replacement of several heavy pipes in the basement underneath the kitchen.

• The Governmental Offices, Building step 5 (R5) (1993-1994). This was a huge and complicated building task, where I was one of about 20 architects working with the design of all the details.
• The Headquarters for The Norwegian Medical Association at Christiania Square. (1994-1995). This is a building on arouund 8000 m2. One of the challenges had been to design a building that could harmonize with the seventeenth century neighbouring buildings.