Architect, Built Environment researcher, with a specific interest and qualifications/experience into pre-historic and historic architecture and landscape. I have an M. Arch from Washington University, a PhD in Architecture and Archaeology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology from 1993 and have performed one year of a Postdoc in Passivhaus standard innovation for building firms in Oslo at the OAUC university, in Oslo, Norway, during 2010.
Currently, I am an entrepreneur in design and infrastructure work, including facilitating the construction of sustainable buildings and landscapes and perform built environment research independently. I have started a new firm with Norwegian Anemari Aakernes - Aqua Naturae, to build, design and manufacture ecological infrastructure projects and their components for new projects and to integrate Nature Based Solutions into historic landscapes and other historic infrastructures in cultural landscapes. See the website: https://www.aqua-naturae.com
Oslo and Akershus Univeristy Coll, Oslo, NO, Posdoctoral Researcher
performed research into Passivhaus innovation for construction firms and developers for 5 industrial clients and lead a series of scholarly research and innovation symposia at the OAUC university.
Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU, Trondheim, PhD, PhD
research as a PhD student into pre-historic Architecture in Scandinavia and the concept of the home in Ancient Scandinavia and its impact on our understanding of this Architecture, building technology and landscape. I worked with and studied under several Archaeologist and one Anthropologist to gain this degree, in 1993, including Ulf Naesman, Kalle Sognnes, Dan Carlsson and others.
Besides this, together with fellow student Eli Stoea, during 1991-1992, we put on an international symposium on the concept of the home and produced as an editor the edited volume for Ashgate in 1995: The Home: Words, Interpretations, Meanings and Environments.
