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Mari Hvattum

Professor

Institute of Architecture

Mari.Hvattum@aho.no

Tel: +4722997119

Mari Hvattum is professor of architectural history and theory at AHO. She is educated as an architect from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, and studied philosophy and aesthetics in Trondheim and Bergen. She has her PhD in architectural history from the University of Cambridge, UK.  

Hvattum has taught architectural history, theory, and design at universities in Norway and abroad, e.g. Architectural Association, London; Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow; University of Edinburgh; University of Strathclyde, and Central European University, Prague. She has led Norwegian and EU-funded research projects such as Routes, Roads, and Landscapes. Aesthetic Practice en Route 1750–2015 (2008–2015); The Printed and the Built (2014–2018), and Printing the Past. Architecture, Print Culture, and Uses of the Past in Modern Europe (2016–2019). Her own research revolves around 19th century architectural thinking, particularly the relationship between architecture and history.  

 

Curriculum Vitae - CV

Selected Publications

Monographs

  • M. Hvattum, Style and Solitude. The History of an Architectural Problem. Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, 2023 (forthcoming).
  • M. Hvattum, Hva er arkitektur. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2015.
  • M. Hvattum, Heinrich Ernst Schirmer. Kosmopolittenes arkitekt. Oslo: Pax, 2014.
  • M. Hvattum, Gottfried Semper and the Problem of Historicism. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 
 
Edited Books:
  • M. Hvattum and A. Hultzsch (eds.), The Printed and the Built. Architecture, Print Culture, and Public Debate in Modern Europe. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.
  • M. Hvattum (ed.), Debatten om stortingsbygningen 1836–1866. Oslo: Pax 2016. 
  • M. Lending and M. Hvattum (eds.), Modelling Time. The Permanent Collection 1925–2014. Oslo: Torpedo Press, 2014.
  • Helge Jordheim and Tore Rem, w/Kristin Asdal, Torkel Brekke, Mari Hvattum, Erling Sandmo og Espen Ytreberg (eds.), Hva skal vi med humaniora? Oslo: Fritt Ord 2014.
  • M. Lending and M. Hvattum (eds.), “Vor Tids Fordringer.” Norske arkitekturdebatter, 1818–1919, Oslo: Pax, 2012.
  • M. Hvattum, B. Brenna, B. Elvebakk, and J. K. Larsen (eds.), Routes, Roads and Landscapes, Farnham: Ashgate, 2011.
  • G. Lauvland, K. O. Ellefsen, M. Hvattum (eds.), An Eye for Place: Christian Norberg-Schulz as Architect, Teacher and Historian, Oslo: Pax, 2009.
  • M. Hvattum and C. Hermansen (eds.), Tracing Modernity. Manifestations of the Modern in Architecture and the City, London: Routledge, 2004.
     
Artikler:
  • M. Hvattum, “Incandescent Light Bulb”, in Barbara Penner, Adrian Forty, Miranda Critchley, and Olivia Horsfall Turner (eds), Extinct. A Compendium of Obsolete Objects. London: Reaktion 2021.
  • M. Hvattum, “‘A Triumph in Ink’. Gottfried Semper, The Illustrated London News, and the Duke of Wellington’s Funeral Car”, in M. Gnehm and S. Hildebrand (eds), Architectural History and Globalised Knowledge: Gottfried Semper in London, Zürich: ETH/gta 2021.
  • M. Hvattum, “Tassles, Tapestries, and Templer. Ornament as Origin of Architecture”, in Sunil Bald and Gary Lam (eds) Kent Bloomer. Nature as Ornament. Yale 2020.
  • M. Hvattum, “Historicism.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Ed. Kevin Murphy. New York: Oxford University Press 2020. DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780190922467-0032
  • M. Hvattum, “Stilforflytninger». Kunst og Kultur vol 103, no 3/2020.
  • M. Hvattum, “Rocky Starts – Ephemeral Beginnings”, gta papers no 3/2019.
  • M. Hvattum, “Style. Notes on the Transformation of a Concept”, Architectural Histories – Journal of the EAHN7(1), 2019. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ah.367
  • M. Hvattum, “’Tunnel 9; meget vakkert’. Yngvar Nielsens Rejsehaandbog over Norge”, in Camilla Ruud and Gro Ween (eds), ”En Trængslernes Historie”. En antologi om museumsmannen og historikeren Yngvar Nielsen, Stamsund: Orkana Akademisk 2019.
  • M. Hvattum, “The Nordic Countries 1830-1914”, in Murray Fraser (ed) Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture, vol. 2. London: RIBA/Bloomsbury 2019. 
  • M. Hvattum, “Stil und Abgeschiedenheit,” Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie vol 66, no 6, 2018.  
  • M. Hvattum, “Mere style,” Architectural Histories – Journal of the EAHN, 6(1), 14, 2018 
  • “Zeitgeist, Style and Stimmung. Notes on architectural historiography in the late eighteenth century”, in Caroline van Eck and Sigrid de Jong (eds.), Companions to Architectural History, vol. II: The Companion to 18th Century Architecture, London: Wiley, 2017.
  • M. Hvattum, “Drømmen om et nasjonalgalleri”, in Audun Eckhoff, Nasjonalgalleriet. Oslo: Fagbokforlaget 2017.
  • M. Hvattum, “Goethe Blindfolded”, in José de Paiva (ed.), The Living Tradition of Architecture. London: Routledge 2017.
  • M. Hvattum, “Une historicisme héteronome. L’Assyrie de Gottfried Semper” Revue Germanique International no 26/2017.
  • M. Hvattum,”On Durability”, Architecture Philosophy vol 3, no 1, 2017, pp. 48-61. ISSN 2372-0883
  • M. Hvattum, “Heteronomic Historicism”, Architectural Histories – Journal of the EAHN, vol. 5 no 1/2017. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ah.216
  • M. Hvattum, “Major og Schirmers Gaustad”, Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening, vol. 136 no 12/13 2016.
  • “The Garden and the City: Fragmented Dreams of Totality,“ in Maximilian Sternberg and Henriette Steiner (eds), Phenomenologies of the City. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture. Farnham: Ashgate 2015.
  • “The Moss/Plug Juxtaposition”, A10 New European Architecture, no 55/2014.
  • “Sverre Fehn’s Villa Schreiner”, in Nina Berre and Mari Lending (eds) Villa Schreiner, AsBuilt Classic, Oslo: Pax 2014.
  • “The re-enchantment of history. Jan Digerud and figurative postmodernism”, in Jan Digerud, Collage. Oslo: A+O publishing 2013.
  • ”The King’s Road: Constructing the National Landscape”, (co-authored w/Brita Brenna, Torild Gjesvik and Janike Kampevold Larsen) in Kjerstin Aukrust (ed.), Assigning Cultural Values, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang 2013.
  • “Crisis and Correspondence. Style in the Nineteenth Century”, Architectural Histories – Journal of the EAHN, no 2/2013. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/ah.an
  •  “The Engineer’s Garden”, in Turid Karlsen Seim and Victor Plahte Tschudi (eds), Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia (ACTA), no 26/2013.
  • “Arkitekt Heinrich Ernst Schirmers studiereise til England, 1843–44” (w/ Iselin Bogen), Kunst og kultur no 2/2013.
  • ”Making Place”, in Michael Aasgaard Andersen (ed.), New Nordic: Identity and Architecture, Copenhagen: Louisiana, 2012.
  • ”Utsikter fra veien”, in Nina Frang Høyum and Janike Kampevold Larsen (eds), Views: Norway seen from the Road/ Utsikter: Norge sett fra veien, Oslo: Press forlag, 2012.
  • “Forms of Friction: JVA architects 1996–2012” in Design Peak 14: Jarmund/Vigsnæs Architects, Seoul: Equal Books 2012, pp. 1-100.
  • “Architecture and the Archive” (w/Mari Lending), Nordic Journal of Architecture no 3/2012.
  • “Nordic Nonumentality” Nordic Journal of Architecture, no 2/2012.
  •  “Beslöjade verk och suddiga sammanhang” in Claes Caldenbye and Fredrik Nilsson (eds) Om Arkitektur, Arkus: Stockholm 2011.
  • ”Das Original ist schon Kopie”: imitasjon og metamorfose i 1800-tallets arkitekturtenkning” in Karin Gundersen and Mari Lending (eds) Kopi og original, Oslo: Scandinavian Academic Press.
  • “Bridging the Gap”, Docomomo Journal 45, 2/2011.
  • ”Panoramas of Style: Railway Architecture in Nineteenth Century Norway”, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. Vol. 70, no. 2, June 2011.
  • “She came down like a dream.” Gordon Matta-Clarks Splitting”,  Agora – Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon no 3/ 2010.
  • “Lost in Place: Jarmund/Vigsnæs Architects”, World Architecture, vol. 245, no 11/2010.
  • “Landscapes en route”, ’Scape Magazine: Landscape architecture and urbanism, no 1/2010.
  • “Stedets tyranni”, Arkitekten (Danmark) no 2/2010, pp. 34-43
  • “En Medkjæmper for den gode Sag”, Heinrich Ernst Schirmer og Intelligencens arkitektur”, Kunst og Kultur no 1/2010.
  • ”The problem of Aesthetics”, in Made in Norway. (ed. Ingerid Helsing-Almaas), Basel: Birkhäuser 2010.
  • ”Modified modernism: the relational architecture of the low-rise high-density movement” in Nortopia: Nordic modern architecture and postwar Germany. (eds. C. Spliid-Høgbro and A. Wischmann) Berlin: Jovis Verlag.
  • “Genius Historiae: Christian Norberg-Schulz and the historiography of modern architecture” in: Lauvland, Ellefsen, Hvattum (eds.) An Eye for Place: Christian Norberg-Schulz as Architect, Teacher and Historian. Oslo: Pax 2009.
  • "En reise i fremmed land: Verneteoretiske posisjoner i samtidsarkitekturen" i Tid i arkitektur: om å bygge i fire dimensjoner. P. Butenschøn (ed.) Oslo: Akademisk Publisering 2009.
  • ”The Pleasure of Surprise”, Positions - On Modern Architecture and Urbanism Histories and Theories, University of Minnesota Press / NaI, no 1/2008.
  • “Veiled Works and Blurred Contexts”, Journal of Architecture vol. 13, no 2/2008.
  • “Unfolding from within: Modern Architecture and the Dream of Organic Totality”, Journal of Architecture vol. 11, no 4/2006
  • ”Origins Redefined: a Tale of Pigs and Primitive Huts”, in Primitive: Original Matters in Architecture (eds. F. Samuels, J. Odgers, A. Kerr) London: Routledge 2006.
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