ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
HONORABLE MENTION IN THE OPEN COMPETITION FOR A NEW CHURCH IN CHALOTTENLUND, TRONDHEIM, NORWAY, 2023
TALENT NORWAY'S CAREER PROGRAM ARTEX, 2023-2024
THE DANISH ART FOUNDATION'S CAREER PROGRAM 'THE YOUNG ARTISTIC ELITE, 2023-2024
WORKING GRANT FROM THE DANISH ART FOUNDATION, 2021
DREYERS FOUNDATION'S PROJECT 'START' FOR YOUNG ARCHITECTURAL OFFICES, 2021-2023
DREYERS FOUNDATION'S CAREER PROGRAM FOR YOUNG ARCHITECTURAL OFFICES, 2021
THIRD PRIZE IN THE OPEN COMPETITION FOR NEW WORKSHOP BUILDINGS AT FOLLO MUSEUM, NORWAY, 2021
OUR OFFICE
Jespersen Nødtvedt is a Danish-Norwegian architectural office founded in 2021 by Emil Jespersen and Marte Nødtvedt Skjæggestad. Our office focuses on craftmanship and sustainability.
With a critical approach to sustainability trends, we aim to look at our shared material bank with a new perspective, merging architectural artistry and sustainable materials into a unified entity. Our creative process starts with materials and constructions, attempting to transcend traditional ideas of form and style. Based on a fundamental idea of how something is constructed and put together, the architecture unfolds based on the premises of craftsmanship and production techniques, weaving itself as a new historical layer that reflects our contemporary era.
In our work, we prioritize being involved in all phases of a project – from initial sketches to on-site presence, closely collaborating with engineers and craftsmen. Alongside the track of built projects, the studio delves into artistic and technical explorations of materials and constructions, with both tracks informing each other in a comprehensive and multifaceted artistic perspective. The experiments seek to explore and push the boundaries of what is possible within materials, craftsmanship, and sustainability. This involves experimenting with architecture that was previously hard to envision or associated with negative connotations, in pursuit of new aesthetic expressions. These experiments are conducted through practice-based 1:1 processes, where we first acquire in-depth craftsmanship knowledge, fundamentally believing that it's best to first learn the craft itself before advancing its development.