AMAG 35 LCLA | MANTHEY KULA | SANDEN+HODNEKVAM

AMAG 35 is dedicated to the work of LCLA, MANTHEY KULA and SANDEN+HODNEKVAM, 3 norwegian architecture offices.

LCLA OFFICE is a practice led by Luis Callejas and Charlotte Hansson in Oslo. The studio combines architecture and landscape architecture. Completed works include the exterior areas for the restoration of the former US embassy designed by Eero Saarinen in Oslo, the aquatic sports centre for the XI South American games and the renovation of the main futbol stadium in Bogotá Colombia.

The studio has been nominated to the EU Mies award for European architecture and the Mies Crown Hall award for architecture in the Americas. LCLA office was awarded with the Architectural League of New York Prize for Young Architects and the Lissone design award in 2024 in Italy.

Manthey Kula was established by Beate Hølmebakk and Per Tamsen in 2004. Hølmebakk was born in Oslo in 1963. She studied architecture at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) and as a visiting student at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. Tamsen was born in Halmstad,
Sweden in 1967. He studied architecture at Lund University, at KTH in Stockholm, and at AHO. Hølmebakk is a professor at AHO. She has been an artistic professor at Chalmers University in Sweden, a visiting professor at the University of Navarra, and at Cornell University.

Sanden+Hodnekvam Architects is a small architecture studio founded by John Sanden and Ingvild Hodnekvam in 2014.
The studio is based in Oslo/Nesodden, Norway, and is engaged in a varied range of projects all over the country. Their work balances between simplicity in form and richness in tectonics and atmospheres. They seek simple solutions with honesty of materials and construction in mind, always striving for the rational, aesthetic and sustainable solution.