Martin Braathen (M.Arch) is a PhD candidate in the History of Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art at NTNU, Trondheim. The title of his dissertation is From the Revolution of the Present to ‘The Presence of the Past’: Instrumentality and Autonomy in Norway 1970–1980. He is the author of Alt er arkitektur. Neoavantgarde og institusjonskritikk i Norge 1965–1970 (Everything is Architecture. Neo-Avant-Garde and Institutional Critique in Norway 1965–1970, Tapir Academic Press 2010) and contributes regularly to books, newspapers and architecture magazines in Norway and internationally. He has been the exhibitions director of Norsk Form/The Norwegian Centre for Architecture and Design, and the architecture curator of Projekt 0047 in Berlin. He received his architectural training from NTNU and Universität der Künste/Berlin, and curatorial training from the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York.