Mari Lending

Mari Lending er professor i arkitekturteori- og historie, blant grunnleggerne av OCCAS (Oslo Centre for Critical Architectural Studies), og leder det NFR-finanserte forskningsprosjektet Provenance Projected: Architecture Past and Future in the Era of Circularity (2023–2027). Hun var seniorforsker i Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture og The Printed and the Built: Architecture and Public Debate in Modern Europe (begge NFR-finansiert). I det EU-finansierte HERA-prosjektet Printing the Past (PriArc) var hun ansvarlig for Images of Egypt, som resulterte i utstillingen ved samme navn på Historisk Museum, Oslo, høsten 2018 og boken Images of Egypt (Pax, 2018), med Tim Anstey og Eirik Bøhn. Hun er forfatter av Plaster Monuments. Architecture and the Power of Reproduction (Princeton University Press, 2017), A Feeling of History, med Peter Zumthor (Zürich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2018), Sverre Fehn, Nordic Pavilion, Venice. Voices from the Archives, med Erik Langdalen (Lars Müller/Pax, 2021) og Warburg Models: Buildings as Bilderfahrzeuge, med Tim Anstey (Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2023). Provenance in Architecture. A Dictionary of Terms (red. Uwe Fleckner og Mari Lending), utkommer på Hatje Cantz høsten 2024.

Lending er magister i litteraturvitenskap med en avhandling om Marcel Proust (Universitetet i Oslo, 1997) og har sin doktorgrad i historiografi fra AHO (2005). Hun har vært gjesteforsker ved GSD, Harvard University, Columbia University, Yale School of Architecture og er ved Warburg Institute, London våren 2025.

Lending har publisert vitenskapelige artikler, essayistikk og kritikk om arkitektur, litteratur, og utstillinger i tidsskrifter som Perspecta, Volume, Architectural Histories, AA Files, Journal of Architecture, Chora. Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture, Agora, Future Anterior, Faces. Journal d’architecture, Nordisk Museologi, og Nordic Journal of Architecture. Hun har redigert bokserier om filosofi, kulturkritikk og modernistisk prosa, samt en rekke tidsskrifter, og er medredaktør for bokserien asBUILT. I 2014 karaterte hun, med Mari Hvattum, utstillingen Model as Ruin på Kunstnernes Hus i Oslo, fulgt av boken Modelling Time. The Permanent Collection, 1925–2014 (Torpedo Press, 2014). Hun var president for EAHN (European Architectural History Network, 2022–24, vise-president 2022–2022).

Utvalgte artikler:
“Sverre Fehn hos Jean Prouvé», Arkitektur, vol. 2 (December 2024).
“Transient permanence.” RA. Revista de Arquitectura (special issue: Replicas. Architecture as Copy or Invention), vol. 24, 2022.
“Architectural Antiquization”. Footprint, special issue: The Architecture of Populism: Media, Politics, and Aesthetics, vol. 15, no 29, autumn/winter 2021 (2022).«Iliaden som kinetisk skulptur.» Agora. Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon no. 3, 2021 
«G for Gypsum». In Olivia H. Turner et al. (eds.) An Alphabet of Architectural Models (London/NY: Merell, 2021).
«Teaching Architecture full scale». In Lara Schrijver (ed.) The Tacit Dimension: Architecture Knowledge and Scientific Research (Leuven University Press, 2021). 
«Origins in Translation.» In Helen Thomas (ed.), Drawing Matter Extracts 2: Women Writing Architecture (Drawing Matter, 2021)
“Invented Ex Situ”. Future Anterior, vol XV, no 2 (winter 2018/ published 2020). 
“Temperert modernitet. Byggekunst 1919–1939”. Arkitektur N/Byggekunst 6/2019.
“Chambre/Room.” In K. Stene Johansen et al. (eds.), Living together. Roland Barthes, the Individual, and the Community (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2018).
“Preserved in Plaster”. In Brendan Cormier (ed.), Copy Culture: Sharing in the Age of Digital Reproduction (V&A Publishing, 2018).
 “Cablegram”. In Mari Hvattum/Anne Hultzsch (eds.), The Printed and the Built. Architecture, Print Culture and Public Debate in the Nineteenth Century (Bloomsbury 2018).
“Fabrics of Reality: Art and Architecture in László Krasznahorkai.” In Angeliki Sioli/Yoonchun Jung (eds.), Reading Architecture. Literary Imagination and Architectural Experience (Routledge, 2018).
”Negotiating Absence. Bernard Tschumi’s new Acropolis Museum in Athens.” Journal on Architecture, vol. 15, no. 5 (2009, reprinted 2018).
“Lost Continents, Projective Objects”. In Brita Brenna et al. (eds.), Museums as Culture of Copies: The Crafting of Artefacts and Authenticity (Routledge 2018).
“Reciting the Tomb of Tutankhamun.” Perspecta vol. 49 (2016).
”Architecture at the limit. Peter Zumthor’s Witchburning memorial in Vardø.” In Louise Bourgeois/ Peter Zumthor: Steilneset Memorial. Oslo: Press forlag, 2011/2016.
“Promenade among Words and Things: The Gallery as Catalogue, the Catalogue as Gallery.” Architectural Histories, 3(1): 20 (2015). 
“The Art of Collecting Architecture.” Volume, vol. 44 (2015).
“Out of Place: Circulating Monuments.” In Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen (ed.), Exhibiting Architecture – A Paradox? (Yale School of Architecture, 2015).
“The Urgencies of Theoretical Stuff.” In James Graham (ed.), 2000+: The Urgencies of Architectural Theory (NY: GSAPP Books, 2015).
 “Traveling Portals.” In Arrhenius/Lending/Miller (eds.), Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture (Zurich: Lars Müller, 2014).
“The Permanent Collection of 1925: Oslo Modernism in Paper and Models.” Architectural Histories, 2(1): 3 (2014).
“Proust and Plaster.” AAFiles, no. 67 (2013).
“Wandering among Models: Stendhal, Proust, Sebald.” In T. K. Seim and Victor Plahte Tschudi eds.), From Site to Sight: The Transformation of Place in Art and Literature (Rome: Scienze e Lettere, 2013).
“Writing a Life from the Inside of a Drawing: Stendhal’s Vie de Henry Brulard.” Chora 6. Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture (McGill-Queen University Press, 2011).
”Landscape Versus Museum. J.C. Dahl and the Preservation of Norwegian Burial Mounds.” Future Anterior, vol. 6 no. 1 (2009).