Grahl-Madsen Arkitektur is an indipendent practice based in Bergen, Norway, and has for the last 15 years offered solutions through architectural means, to clients in need of a building – reflecting their identity, solving their problems. The repertoire spans from small extensions, commercial buildings, housing developments, refurbishment, adaptive re-use, to leisure spaces, landscaping, and interiors.

We understand architecture as contextual in all ways, as cultural with all its diversities, and as an artefact with its limitations at the same time, with the purpose of serving an extended functionality.

Through our dealings with buildings, landscapes, urbanity and the rural, we have experienced that a valid architecture lends itself easier to the outside, how it relates and responds to its external conditions being sociocultural as well as ecological. And furthermore, what the outside brings into the project from external concepts, knowledge, and ideas. This implies that we believe it is not sufficient just solving the specifics and particulars to a project. Every project is subject to something greater than itself and has the obligation to discuss and implement a wider and more general understanding of the task.