Art, design and architecture

Art, design and architecture is for students who enjoy exploring ideas, creating visual expression and developing solutions through practical work. You learn how to work with form, colour, materials, techniques and digital tools in creative and design processes. The programme focuses on developing ideas from the first sketch to a finished result, visualising spaces and forms, and testing concepts through models and prototypes. You also gain insight into how art, design and architecture are shaped by, and help shape, culture, society, history and sustainable development.

You learn

to draw
shaping objects in different materials
to develop your creative abilities further
about art and culture
about local and urban development
theoretical subjects

Suits you if you are

interested in drawing, visualising and developing your own ideas
keen to work hands-on with form, colour, materials and techniques
passionate about art, design, architecture and visual expression
curious about developing ideas from first sketch to finished result
interested in how culture, society and sustainability affect art, design and architecture

If you take higher education, you can, among other things, become

an architect, a landscape architect or interior architect

a product designer, industrial designer or graphic designer

an art and culture mediator, curator or artist You can also take an education for other professions – with general university admissions certification you can apply to most studies at university colleges and universities.

Relevant workplaces

an architect’s office or construction and entreprenerurial companiesproduction companies or design agenciesmuseums, galleries or artists’ studios

Further education

Admission tests

Some studies require a practical admission test. Examples of such studies are creative or sports studies.

Science requirements

Some studies require you to have certain science subjects. Examples of such studies are engineering, science and medical studies. You will find the admission requirements for university colleges and universities at samordnaopptak.no. In some education programmes it may be difficult to find room on the timetable to choose all the sciences you need. If you take specialization in general studies with natural science and mathematics at Vg2 and Vg3 you stand the best chance of being able to take the sciences you need.

Subject choices

Three programme subjects you can choose yourself, one at Vg1, one at Vg2 and one at Vg3. The optional programme subjects may be further specialization in art, design and architecture and/or subjects from another programme area in an education programme with specialization in general studies (for instance sciences or foreign languages).
It is up to the school to decide which programme subjects they offer.
Did you not have a foreign language in the lower secondary school? In this case, you must take a foreign language as a common core subject at Vg3 instead of one of the two optional programme subjects at Vg3.
Do you have special dreams for the future? If so, you should check the admission requirements for the study programme before you choose subjects.
Programme subjects in foreign languages and sciences award bonus points for admission to higher education.