Mari Lending er professor i arkitekturteori- og historie, og blant grunnleggerne av OCCAS (Oslo Centre for Critical Architectural Studies). 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 monografien Plaster Monuments. Architecture and the Power of Reproduction (Princeton University Press, 2017), med Peter Zumthor, A Feeling of History (Zürich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2018), og Sverre Fehn, Nordic Pavilion, Venice. Voices from the Archives, with Erik Langdalen (Lars Müller/Pax, 2021).
Lending er magister i litteraturvitenskap med en avhandling om Marcel Proust (Universitetet i Oslo, 1997) og har sin doktorgrad fra AHO (2005). Fra 2005–09 arbeidet hun med postdokprosjektet Modernism on Display. Hun har vært gjesteforsker ved GSD, Harvard University, Columbia University og Yale School of Architecture.
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 (Oslo: Torpedo Press, 2014). Hun er president for EAHN (European Architectural History Network), og prosjektleder for det internasjonale NFR-finanserte forskningsprosjektet Provenance Projected: Architecture Past and Future in the Era of Circularity (2021/2023–2027).
Utvalgte artikler
«Iliaden som kinetisk skulptur.» Agora. Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon no.3, 2021
«G for Gypsum». In An Alphabet of Architectural Models, edited by Olivia Horsfall Turner, Simona Valeriani et al. London/NY: Merell, 2021.
«Teaching Architecture full scale». In The Tacit Dimension: Architecture Knowledge and Scientific Research, edited by Lara Schrijver. Leuven University Press, 2021.
«Origins in Translation.» In Drawing Matter Extracts 2: Women Writing Architecture, edited by Helen Thomas (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 Living together. Roland Barthes, the Individual, and the Community, edited by K. Stene-Johansen, C. Refsum, J. Schimanski. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2018.
“Preserved in Plaster”. In Copy Culture: Sharing in the Age of Digital Reproduction, edited by Brendan Cormier. London, V&A Publishing, 2018.
“Cablegram”. In The Printed and the Built. Architecture, Print Culture and Public Debate in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Mari Hvattum and Anne Hultzsch. London: Bloomsbury 2018.
“Fabrics of Reality: Art and Architecture in László Krasznahorkai.” In Reading Architecture. Literary Imagination and Architectural Experience, edited by Angeliki Sioli and Yoonchun Jung.
Oxon: 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 Museums as Culture of Copies: The Crafting of Artefacts and Authenticity, edited by Brita Brenna, Hans Dam Christensen and Olav Hamram. London: 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 Exhibiting Architecture – A Paradox?, edited by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen. New Haven: Yale School of Architecture, 2015.
“The Urgencies of Theoretical Stuff.” In 2000+: The Urgencies of Architectural Theory, edited by James Graham. New York: GSAPP Books, 2015.
“Traveling Portals.” In Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture, edited by T. Arrhenius, M. Lending, W. Miller. Zurich: Lars Müller, 2014.
“The Permanent Collection of 1925: Oslo Modernism in Paper and Models.” Architectural Histories, 2(1): 3 (2014).
“Proust and Plaster.” London: AAFiles, no. 67 (2013).
“Wandering among Models: Stendhal, Proust, Sebald.” In From Site to Sight: The Transformation of Place in Art and Literature, edited by T. K. Seim and Victor Plahte Tschudi. 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. Montreal: McGill-Queen University Press, 2011.
”Landscape Versus Museum. J.C. Dahl and the Preservation of Norwegian Burial Mounds.” Future Anterior. Journal on Historic Preservation. History, Theory, & Criticism, vol. 6 no. 1 (2009).
Lending er magister i litteraturvitenskap med en avhandling om Marcel Proust (Universitetet i Oslo, 1997) og har sin doktorgrad fra AHO (2005). Fra 2005–09 arbeidet hun med postdokprosjektet Modernism on Display. Hun har vært gjesteforsker ved GSD, Harvard University, Columbia University og Yale School of Architecture.
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 (Oslo: Torpedo Press, 2014). Hun er president for EAHN (European Architectural History Network), og prosjektleder for det internasjonale NFR-finanserte forskningsprosjektet Provenance Projected: Architecture Past and Future in the Era of Circularity (2021/2023–2027).
Utvalgte artikler
«Iliaden som kinetisk skulptur.» Agora. Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon no.3, 2021
«G for Gypsum». In An Alphabet of Architectural Models, edited by Olivia Horsfall Turner, Simona Valeriani et al. London/NY: Merell, 2021.
«Teaching Architecture full scale». In The Tacit Dimension: Architecture Knowledge and Scientific Research, edited by Lara Schrijver. Leuven University Press, 2021.
«Origins in Translation.» In Drawing Matter Extracts 2: Women Writing Architecture, edited by Helen Thomas (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 Living together. Roland Barthes, the Individual, and the Community, edited by K. Stene-Johansen, C. Refsum, J. Schimanski. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2018.
“Preserved in Plaster”. In Copy Culture: Sharing in the Age of Digital Reproduction, edited by Brendan Cormier. London, V&A Publishing, 2018.
“Cablegram”. In The Printed and the Built. Architecture, Print Culture and Public Debate in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Mari Hvattum and Anne Hultzsch. London: Bloomsbury 2018.
“Fabrics of Reality: Art and Architecture in László Krasznahorkai.” In Reading Architecture. Literary Imagination and Architectural Experience, edited by Angeliki Sioli and Yoonchun Jung.
Oxon: 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 Museums as Culture of Copies: The Crafting of Artefacts and Authenticity, edited by Brita Brenna, Hans Dam Christensen and Olav Hamram. London: 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 Exhibiting Architecture – A Paradox?, edited by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen. New Haven: Yale School of Architecture, 2015.
“The Urgencies of Theoretical Stuff.” In 2000+: The Urgencies of Architectural Theory, edited by James Graham. New York: GSAPP Books, 2015.
“Traveling Portals.” In Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture, edited by T. Arrhenius, M. Lending, W. Miller. Zurich: Lars Müller, 2014.
“The Permanent Collection of 1925: Oslo Modernism in Paper and Models.” Architectural Histories, 2(1): 3 (2014).
“Proust and Plaster.” London: AAFiles, no. 67 (2013).
“Wandering among Models: Stendhal, Proust, Sebald.” In From Site to Sight: The Transformation of Place in Art and Literature, edited by T. K. Seim and Victor Plahte Tschudi. 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. Montreal: McGill-Queen University Press, 2011.
”Landscape Versus Museum. J.C. Dahl and the Preservation of Norwegian Burial Mounds.” Future Anterior. Journal on Historic Preservation. History, Theory, & Criticism, vol. 6 no. 1 (2009).
Fagområder
- Arkitekturhistorie og teori