Thordis Arrhenius is an architect and Professor in Architectural History and Conservation at the Institute of Form, Theory and History.
She teaches theory of conservation, the masters design studio Re-Store and the post-professional masters in conservation and urbanism.
She is a founding member of Oslo Centre for Critical Architectural Studies (OCCAS) and leader of the four year international research project Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture (funded by Norwegian Research Council 2011-14).
Her research interests lie within the field of architectural preservation theory with a specific focus on the medium of the architectural exhibition.
Arrhenius has published widely on architecture 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.
Recent publications include ‘The Vernacular on Display’ in Swedish Modernism: Architecture, Consumption and the Welfare State (eds. Helena Mattsson and Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Black Dog Publishing 2010) and the forthcoming The Fragile monument: On Conservation and Modernity (Black Dog Publishing 2012).
Publication and conferences 2010
Chapter in book: The Vernacular On Display, in Swedish Modernism, Architecture, Consumption, and the Welfare State (Black Dog Publishing 2010)
Review in professional journal:
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 in academic journal:
Modern Swedish Design, Founding Text, The Museum of Modern Art, New York for the Journal of Architecture, Riba/Routledge vol.15 nr2 April 2010.
Other publications
Re-Store catalogue 2010, introduction and editor, FTH, AHO, 2010
Conference paper
"The ‘as found’ as a pedagogic and critical device", As Found, World i Denmark, Copenhagen 2010.06.19
Lectures/ Seminars outside AHO
The Expanded Monument, KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm 20100310.
Lecture and introduction, Architecture and its Past, Stocktaking, The Museum of Architecture, Stockholm 20100909
Swedish Modernism: Architecture, Consumption and the Welfare State, Modern Museum/ Architectural Museum. Symposium with talks by Helena Mattsson, Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Thordis Arrhenius, Daniel Birnbaum and Kim West, Stockholm 2010-10-02