Oslo-based Reiulf Ramstad and his firm RRA (Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter) have been accumulating architectural awards for their iconic design in Norway and other northern locations. Ramstad’s work seeks to expose the tension between the local and global, the natural and artificial, and immobility and change. Reiulf Ramstad will give three lectures in Alaska on February 13-15.

Recent articles on Dezeen.com and Phaidon.com look at his practice’s newly-completed restaurant and service centre at the foot of the Trollveggen (Troll Wall), one of Norway’s most popular nature attractions.

The Wendell Burnette lecture in Fairbanks on January 17th has been moved to 7:30pm.

The work of Wendell Burnette Architects has been presented in more than 100 publications worldwide, including The Burnette Studio/Residence, a single building monograph published by Rockport Press and each Phaidon Atlas of World Architecture in 2004 and 2008. Wendell Burnette will give three lectures in Alaska on January 16-18.

An article on design-milk.com describes The Burnette Studio/Residence:

The house is an extension of the desert garden conceived as an architecture that is in and of the greater landscape. Its rooms edit the surrounding context in such a way that connections are explicitly made to the sensory experiences of our natural world. An unapologetic from extends an existing ubiquitous road scar as a man-made canyon, touching only the site that was previously disturbed. The entry space extends beyond the visual, it is a series of moments and experiences that slow down time.