Thordis Arrhenius is an architect and Professor of Architectural History and Conservation at the Institute of Form, Theory and History at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. She teaches a masters design studio, Re-Store, and a post-professional masters in conservation and urbanism. She is a founding member of the Oslo Centre for Critical Architectural Studies (OCCAS) and leader of a four-year international research project, Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture (funded by Norwegian Research Council from 2011-14). Her research interests lie within the field of architectural preservation theory with a specific focus on architectural exhibition. Arrhenius is published in magazines such as Journal of Architecture, Agora, AA-files, Future Anterior and the Nordic Journal of Architectural Research. She is an associate editor of Nordisk Museologi.

 

Selected work:

The Fragile Monument: On Concervation and Modernity, Black Dog Publishing (forthcoming 2012).

“The Vernacular On Display”, in Swedish Modernism, Architecture, Consumption and the Welfare State, Black Dog Publishing 2010.

Review: A New Nature – 9 Architectural Conditions Between Liquid and Solid by Anders Abraham, (Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture Publishers 2009) Danish Arkitekten, nr 6-2010.

Review: Modern Swedish Design, Founding Text, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Journal of Architecture, Riba/Routledge vol.15 no 2 April 2010.

Re-Store catalogue 2010, introduction and editor, FTH, AHO, 2010.

“The ‘as found’ as a pedagogic and critical device”, As Found. World i Denmark , Copenhagen 2010.06.19.

The Expanded Monument, KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm 2010.03.10.

Lecture and introduction, Architecture and its Past, Stocktaking, The Museum of Architecture, Stockholm 2010.09.09.

Swedish Modernism: Architecture, Consumption and the Welfare State, Modern Museum/Architectural Museum.

Symposium with Helena Mattsson, Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Thordis Arrhenius, Daniel Birnbaum and Kim West, Stockholm 2010.10.02.