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MONOLITH
Studio

The studio is three
people and a fjord.

We work from a converted boathouse on Trondheimsfjord. The studio is intentionally small. Every drawing crosses the desk of a partner. Every site is visited in winter, before drawings begin, because a house designed in summer is not a house — it is a vacation.

Principals

  • Ingvild Aaberg

    Founding partner · Site & landscape

    Trained at NTNU and Mendrisio. Twelve years of practice on the western fjords. Reads weather before plan.

  • Henrik Sørli

    Founding partner · Material & envelope

    Concrete specialist. Spent six years inside the Hardanger formwork crews before founding the studio. Believes a wall is finished when you stop noticing it.

  • Mira Lund

    Partner · Detail & light

    Joined in 2019 from a decade at Snøhetta. Designs the few centimeters of every project that the client will touch.

Recognition

  • 2024Mies van der Rohe Award · NominatedCliff House
  • 2023Architectural Record · House of the YearBlack Pavilion
  • 2021Norwegian Wood PrizeStone Atrium
  • 2019Wallpaper* Design Awards · Best New HouseRidge House
  • 2017Iconic Awards · Innovative ArchitectureRidge House

Practice

We design only single-residence projects. No hotels, no offices, no developer-driven housing. The constraint isn’t ideological — it’s how we keep the work specific to one person, one site, one weather pattern.

A typical commission runs 28–36 months from first letter to handover. We will not accelerate this. The slowness is the architecture.