Atle Aas
Atle Aas is an architect and artist based in Oslo, Norway (Atle Aas Architects AS). He holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (1982) and a Master of Architecture from the Oslo School of Architecture (1994). He also has extensive experience as an Art Director and Graphic Designer.
Memorial architecture and related projects are core activities for Atle Aas as a project manager, architect, designer, and artist. From around 2006 onwards, he has been contributing to or responsible for many projects in this field. Several of them relate to the Second World War and the terror attacks in Norway on 22 July 2011 and 10 August 2019.
FEATURED WORK & CORE COMPETENCIES
Architectural design and memorial project conceptualization at sites of extreme violence and traumatic history, including:
Falstad Centre, Ekne, Norway
The 22 July Centre, Oslo, Norway
The historic exhibition at in Hegnhuset, Utøya, Norway
The 10 August Memory and Learning Center at the Al-Noor Mosque, Bærum, Norway
Responsible architect for the exhibitions, including:
“Democracy meets Nazism” (2014), Falstad Centre, Ekne, Norway
“Soviet Prisoners of War” (2010), Norwegian Defense Museum, Oslo
Special Advisor for the Norwegian Labor Youth League (AUF) and the National Support Group for 22 July
Aas was the responsible architect for the transformation of the Falstad Centre in Norway from a SS-prison camp in 1940-45 to a museum, memorial, and center for human rights that opened in 2007. Together with historian Tor E. Fagerland, he was chief curator and project manager for the 22 July Centre that opened in the government centre in Oslo in 2015. In 2016, Aas and Fagerland created the historic exhibition in Hegnhuset – a memorial and learning center on the island of Utøya, Norway. In 2018, Aas, Fagerland, and Jon Reitan created the exhibition “Hjemme. Borte. (Home. Away.), Holocaust in Trondheim 1940-45” at the Jewish Museum in Trondheim.
In 2022, Aas was the responsible architect for the 10 August Memory and Learning center at the Al-Noor Mosque in Bærum, Norway, the site of the 10 August 2019 terror attack.
Together with Fagerland he has since 2015 served as a Special Advisor for the Norwegian Labor Youth League (AUF) and the National Support Group for 22 July.
Aas has also been the responsible architect for many exhibitions related to the Second World War such as “Democracy meets Nazism” in 2014 at the Falstad Centre in Norway and “Soviet Prisoners of War” in 2010 at the Norwegian Defense Museum in Oslo.