Mari Hvattum

• Hvattum, Mari (2025). Attribution. In Fleckner, Uwe & Lending, Mari (Ed.), Provenance in Architecture. A Dictionary. Hatje Cantz Verlag. ISSN 9783775761147. p. 28–29. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2023). Set free the great models: Architectural History in the Illustrated Press. In Brouwer, Petra; Bressani, Martin & Armstrong, Christopher (Ed.), Narrating the Globe. The Emergence of World Histories of Architecture. MIT Press. ISSN 9780262047975. p. 159–176. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2023). Foranderlige steder. Lys som Ortsversetzung. Arkitekten (København : 1957). ISSN 0004-198X. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2021). Incandescent Lightbulb, Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects. Reaktion Books. ISSN 9781789144529. p. 153–156. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2021). «A Triumph in Ink.» Gottfried Semper, The Illustrated London News, and the Duke of Wellington’s Funeral Car. In Gnehm, Michael & Hildebrand, Sonja (Ed.), Architectural History and Globalized Knowledge. Gottfried Semper in London. GTA Verlag. ISSN 9783856764098. p. 65–86. doi: 10.3929/ethz-b-000501065. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2020). Tassels, Tapestries, and Temples. Ornament as the Origin of Architecture. In Bald, Sunil & He, Gary (Ed.), Kent Bloomer. Nature as Ornament. Yale University Press. ISSN 9780300254716. p. 11–17. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2020). Stilforflytninger. Kunst og Kultur. ISSN 0023-5415. 103(3), p. 158–171. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3029-2020-03-05. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2020). What is (good) architecture? In Hermansen, Christian & Zhang, Qi (Ed.), Contemporary Architectural Education: Education on Practices. Tianjin University, Urban Environment Design (UED) Magazine Press. ISSN 9787559118738. p. 32–38. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2019). Style. Notes on the transformation of a concept. Architectural Histories. 7(1). doi: 10.5334/ah.367. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Style has been a key concept in architectural discourse since the 18th century, yet its meaning is far from unequivocal. This essay traces the shifting meanings attributed to style in German architectural thinking from the mid-18th to the early 19th century. Reading and discussing texts by J.J. Winckelmann, J.W. Goethe, C.C. Hirschfeld, A.W. Schlegel, H. Hübsch, and F. Eisenlohr, I study the multifarious uses to which style was put in this period and look at the effects these uses had on architecture.

• Hvattum, Mari (2019). Stil und Abgeschiedenheit. Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie. ISSN 0012-1045. 66(6), p. 831–844. doi: 10.1515/dzph-2018-0059. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In his famous essay “Der moderne Denkmalkultus. Sein Wesen und seine Entstehung” from 1903, the Austrian historian and art theorist Alois Riegl pondered why it is that the modern observer is able to appreciate the monuments of the past. It seems an odd question. The nineteenth century was obsessed with history; its artists and architects were often accused of appreciating nothing but the past. Yet, Riegl’s question is prescient. If, as the historicists had long professed, there are no absolute or eternal standards in art – if the value of art and architecture is relative, changing with time and circumstance – then logically, the past should be inaccessible to us. How come it is not? Riegl’s seemingly naïve question sums up historicism’s most pressing dilemmas and reveals the epochal determinism lurking in nineteenth-century Zeitgeist-thinking. This essay investigates Riegl’s attempted answers and their intellectual presuppositions.

• Hvattum, Mari (2019). "Tunnel 9; meget vakkert". Yngvar Nielsens Reisehaandbog over Norge. In Ruud, Lise Camilla & Ween, Gro Birgit (Ed.), En Trængslernes Historie. En antologi om museumsmannen og historikeren Yngvar Nielsen.. Orkana Forlag. ISSN 9788281043992. p. 115–127. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2019). The Nordic Countries 1830-1914. In Fraser, Murray (Eds.), Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture 21st edition. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781472589989. p. 641–653. doi: 10.5040/9781474207775.0080. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2019). Rocky Starts - Ephemeral Beginnings. In Stalder, Laurent (Eds.), gta papers 3: Founding Myths. GTA Verlag. ISSN 9783856764005. p. 58–69. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2018). Murder. In Hvattum, Mari & Hultzsch, Anne Katrin (Ed.), The Printed and the Built. Architecture, Print Culture and Public Debate in the Nineteenth Century. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350038417. p. 237–244. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2018). Colour. In Hvattum, Mari & Hultzsch, Anne Katrin (Ed.), The Printed and the Built. Architecture, Print Culture and Public Debate in the Nineteenth Century. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350038417. p. 165–170. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari & Hultzsch, Anne Katrin (2018). A Storehouse of Ideas. In Hvattum, Mari & Hultzsch, Anne Katrin (Ed.), The Printed and the Built. Architecture, Print Culture and Public Debate in the Nineteenth Century. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350038417. p. 1–23. doi: 10.5040/9781350038387.ch-001. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2018). Mere Style. Architectural Histories. 6(1). doi: 10.5334/ah.342. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2017). Five Postcards on Architecture and History. Wolkenkuckucksheim. Internationale Zeitschrift zur Theorie der Architektur. ISSN 1434-0984. 22(36), p. 145–154. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2017). Zeitgeist, Style, and Stimmung. Historiography of Architecture. In Eck, Caroline van (Eds.), The Companion to 18th Century Architecture. Wiley-Blackwell. ISSN 9781444338515. p. 691–714. doi: 10.1002/9781118887226.wbcha070. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2017). Heteronomic Historicism. Architectural Histories. 5(1). doi: 10.5334/ah.216. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2017). Goethe blindfolded. In Paiva, Jose de (Eds.), The Living Tradition of Architecture. Routledge. ISSN 9781138640481. p. 80–92. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2016). Major og Schirmers Gaustad. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet). ISSN 0029-2001. p. 1113–1118. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.15.0782. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2016). "En borgerlig Nutids-Skabning". In Hvattum, Mari (Eds.), Debatten om stortingsbygningen 1836-1866. Pax Forlag. ISSN 9788253038605. p. 13–46. Full text in Research Archive

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• Hvattum, Mari (2023). Style and Solitude. The History of an Architectural Problem. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262545006. 310 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Tschudi, Victor Plahte; Hvattum, Mari & Lucas, Paul-Antoine (2021). Treasures from the AHO Library. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. ISBN 9788254703380. 50 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari & Hultzsch, Anne Katrin (2018). The Printed and the Built. Architecture, Print Culture and Public Debate in the Nineteenth Century. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350038417. 306 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Riegl, Alois & Hvattum, Mari (2017). Den moderne minnesmerkekultens vesen og tilblivelse. Oversatt av Sverre Dahl ; etterord av Mari Hvattum. Pax Forlag. ISBN 9788253038933. 112 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2016). Debatten om stortingsbygningen 1836-1866. Pax Forlag. ISBN 9788253038605. 364 p. Full text in Research Archive

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• Hvattum, Mari (2025). Om å skrive (norsk) arkitekturhistorie. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2025). Reformenes arkitektur. Full text in Research Archive
• Gleditsch, Espen & Hvattum, Mari (2025). Interessen for livet? Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2025). Nasjonal stil - en selvmotsigelse? Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2025). Touring Belgium. Full text in Research Archive
• Romm, Kristin Lie; Engen, Magnus Johan; Gardsjord, Erlend Strand; Bondevik, Hilde; Hvattum, Mari & Haugsgjerd, Svein [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2024). Gaustad asyl som fremtidens psykiatri? Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2024). ‘A truly artistic hand’. Gottfried Semper and the Making of the Italian Renaissance. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2024). Review of The Built Environment through the Prism of the Colonial Periodical Press, edited by Alice Santiago Faria, Anne Shelley, and Sandra Ataíde Lobo (New York: Routledge, 2023). Technology and Culture. ISSN 0040-165X. 65(January), p. 425–427. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2024). S-Curve Submerged. Anish Kapoor and the Art of Changing Place. In Fredholm, Sarah (Eds.), Anish Kapoor. Unseen. Strandberg Publishing. ISSN 9788794418232. p. 36–40. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2024). The Eloquence of Making. Linguistic Analogies in the Writing of Gottfried Semper. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2024). A Case of Mistaken Identity. The Reception of Theophil Hansen at the Outskirts of Europe. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2024). Samfunnsreform og arkitektur. Om å skrive norsk arkitekturhistorie 1850-1905. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2024). Semper & Jones. Musings on the Meaning of Ornament. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2023). Style in the Making. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2023). Blikk - bevegelse - bygning. Turistvegprosjektet som (norsk) arkitekturhistorie. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2023). Semper on Style. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2023). Style in Architecture. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2023). The Political Agency of Style. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2023). Style and Solitude. The History of an Architectural Problem. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2023). Aesthetics - Beauty - Style: musings on some slippery concept. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2023). Gottfried Semper’s Generative Theory of Style. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2023). Foranderlige steder. Lys som Ortsversetzung. Arkitekten (København : 1957). ISSN 0004-198X. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2023). Thinking Style. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2022). Scale / Style. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2022). Geniet og Museet. Schinkels Bauakademieleilighet i Berlin. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2022). Mutable Places. Light as Ortsversetzung. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2022). «Med den Agtelse som skyldes Menneskeheden.» Fengselsarkitektur på 1800-tallet. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2022). Oslos særpreg? Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2021). Aesthetics – Beauty – Style. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2021). Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Sammlung Architektonischer Entwürfe (1819-1840)og Werke der höheren Baukunst (1840-1848). In Tschudi, Victor Plahte; Hvattum, Mari & Lucas, Paul-Antoine (Ed.), Treasures from the AHO Library. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. ISSN 9788254703380. p. 64–71. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2021). Gottfried Semper on Textiles. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2021). Om stil. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2021). On Style in Architecture. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2020). Historicism. In Murphy, Kevin (Eds.), Oxford Bibliographies in Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780190922467. doi: 10.1093/obo/9780190922467-0032. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2020). Monumenter. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2019). Housing Knowledge. The Architecture of the Library. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2019). Frem til klassisk aand og rytme». Antikkens arkitektur i 1800-tallets Norge. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2019). Tassels, Tapestries and Temples: Ornament as the Origin of Architecture. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2019). On Style. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2019). Christiania Botsfengsel. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2019). Style and Solitude. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2019). En særlig Prydelse for Byen: Christiania Botsfengsels arkitekturhistorie. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2019). Gaustads arkitekturhistorie. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2019). Minner, menn og minnesmerker: 1800-tallets kulturminnevern. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2019). A Good Life for Whom? Care, Control, and Conflict in 19th Century Institution Building. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2018). Towards a Situated Tectonics. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2018). Phantom Limbs: Semper on Dressing. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2018). Arkitektur på trykk. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2017). Heinrich Ernst Schirmer and the Cosmopolitan Historicism of the 19th Century. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2017). Nordic Doubts. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2017). Nasjonalgalleriet - visjon og virkelighet. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2017). On Style. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2017). Rocky Starts - Ephemeral Beginnings. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2017). Futures Past. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2017). Drømmen om et nasjonalgalleri. In Eckhoff, Audun (Eds.), Nasjonalgalleriet. Fagbokforlaget. ISSN 9788245022582. p. 33–59. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari & Hermansen, Christian (2017). The Wave. Utendørsteater i Valparaiso, Chile. In Berre, Nina (Eds.), Arkitekturårbok 2016/17. Pax Forlag. ISSN 9788253039114. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2017). On Festival and Failure. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2017). ’Set free the great models’. Architectural History in the Popular Press. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2017). Heinrich Ernst Schirmers arkitekturvernarbeid, 1842-1872. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2016). En kjærlighetserklæring til Oslo. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2016). Architectural Textbooks and the Popular Press. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2016). On Durability. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2016). Tømmingen av offentlige bygninger i Oslo. [Radio]. NRK P2. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2016). Building the Nation before Nationalism. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2016). Stortingsbygningen 150 år. [Radio]. NRK P2. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2016). Striden om stortingsbygningen, Stortingsbygningen 150 år. To Arkitektkonkurranser. Stortinget og Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design. ISSN 9788281961159. p. 10–25. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2016). Hva skjer når kulturbyggene tømmes? [Journal]. Aftenposten. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2016). Stortingsbygningen 150 år. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2016). Thresholds. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2016). Et tap for Oslo som hovedstad. Full text in Research Archive
• Hvattum, Mari (2016). Morgenbladet og Stortinget. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Iver Tangen & Hvattum, Mari (2018). The magazine and the city : architecture, urban life and the illustrated press in nineteenth-century Christiania. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. ISSN 9788254703151. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Focusing on two illustrated periodicals, Skilling-Magazin (1835-1891) and Illustreret Nyhedsblad (1851-1866), the dissertation explores the relationships between the city and the magazine from two perspectives, investigating the magazine in the city and the city in the magazine. The nineteenth-century illustrated press was produced, distributed and read in the city, its editors, writers, engravers and printers being part of a developing urban culture. At the same time, its texts and images helped constitute the urban environment and engender an urban culture. The thesis locates the printers, publishers, editors and image makers in the changing urban environment of Christiania. It discusses printing and publishing practices and enquire where, how and by whom these periodicals were produced, distributed and read. It then turns to the representations of the city in the magazine, looking at the modern city as it was represented in texts and images published in the illustrated press. Through case studies of the coverage of specific events and sites in the city, the thesis discusses the city as a spectacle, urban renewal and the changing nature of the political public.

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