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).