ABSTRACT
The rapidly accelerating dynamic of alternating between stages in life, especially learning and working, have become pronounced due to the fast pace of development of disciplines, knowledge fields, working methods and technologies and tools, as well as the need to meet increasingly complex requirements. Siv Helene Stangeland, partner in the Stavanger and Oslo based practice Helen & Hard, studied architecture at the Oslo School of Architecture and in the context of an exchange programme with ETSAB Barcelon. In 1994 she started collaborating with Reinhard Kropf and co-founded with him the practice Helen & Hard in 1996. Stangeland locates the primary gain of the research undertaken in her PhD in having: developed a language and a knowledge as [to] how to guide, invite and make frameworks for others to deepen their own practice, be it employees, interns or collaborative groups. Julia Schlegel, director of research at Snøhetta, studied architecture in Germany.
