erlingamble.com/ about Erling

I was born in Oslo, Norway in 1948, and have lived there the greater part of my life. The recent years I have been living in Stockholm, Sweden. I graduated from the Oslo School of Architecture in 1975, and since then I have been working as an Arcitect in nearly 45 years. More about that you will find under the other flip.

My main interest are those reflected in the topics that this web site is dealing with. In my opinion the environmental issues are by far the most important challenges we are facing in our time. I am afraid that our focus on economic growth and our lack of understanding how dependent we are on all the other kinds of life on this planet are in the act of driving us right into a disaster more sinister than we are able to imagine.

I have always been a reading person and a bit more than avaragely interested in Theatre. ( I took one year studying Theatre history and -science during a break from my work as an Architect in 1995/96). I am very easily fascinated by a long row of topics, like history, languages, etymology, mathematics, astronomy etc. On the other hand I have no ear for music and do not understand football. As a retired Architect I am trying to learn myself how to draw, in various ways. I am living in a big city, but am dependent on getting myself rather often out into the forest, the mountains or the sea.

I started studying at the Oslo School of Architecture in 1968, and graduated there in 1975. After that I worked as an Architect in Oslo in almost 45 years. The first twenty of these I had a lot of short-term employments, a few of them in Public Authorities, but most of them in smaller private Architetct's Studios. But the last half of my carreer I was employed at Petter Bogen Arkitektkontor. Below follows a survey of some of the projects I was involved in during those years, and also a coupple of projects from the time I was with Sivilarkitekt Torstein Ramberg, in the middle of the nineties.

• Egebergkvartalet in Sørumsand (2014-2019) approx. a hundred appartments in a four to six storeys building complex in a small town 40 km northeast of Oslo.

• Extension and renovation of the Lovisenberg Diaconal Nursery College (2011-2013). This included renovation of the attics of a 160 years old hospital building to a modern exercise department for the Nursery Education.

 
 
 
 
• Strandliveien Dwelling Quarter in Kolbotn (2010-2012), about one hundred appartments in Kolbotn just south of Oslo.
• Gaustadveien 23, Oslo (2010-2011) about one hundred appartments at Øvre Sogn on the outskirts of Oslo.

 
 
 
 
• Pilestredet 35, Oslo (2005-2007) renovation and extension of an old insurance office building to 26 000 m2 premises for what now is called Oslo Metropolitan University.

 
 
 
 
• Lovisenberg Diaconal Hosptal, renovation of the main kitchen. (2003-2004) This kitchen covers about 600 m2 and was in urgent need for a renovation. It was a rather complicated process as it also involved replacement of several heavy pipes in the basement under the kitchen.

• The Governments Central Office Complex, Building stage 5 ("R5") (1993-1994). This was an enormous and very complicated project on about 50 000 m2. I was part of a team on around 20 architects making the detailed drawings for the builders.
• The House for the Norwegian Medical Association at Christiania Square. (1994-1995). This is a house on around 8000m2, the result of a competition where harmonizing the new building with the existing historical buildings on the site was a main issue.