Hovseter is a neighbourhood of Oslo, Norway, that comes under Vestre Aker kommune and lies between Røa and Holmen.
The site was mainly developed in the 1970s as a project associated experimental political sociology and was listed under the then Social Democratic government.
The buildings consist largely of blocks of flats in the low/medium altitude by Norwegian standards.
Various areas outside Hovseter also stems from the reconstruction period after the Second World War in Norway and holds a joint architecture for homes on the west side of Oslo, in the form of house or villa-standard.
Roads Gamle Hovsetervei, Henriks vei, Jeppes vei, Pernilles vei, Arnebråtveien, Ankerveien, Røaknekken and Røahagan are built in the same period and hence holds great architectural similarities of their distinctive post-war expressed through architecture and materials.