I am an architectural historian with a professional background in teaching and research from Sweden (The School of Architecture at The Royal Institute of Technology, and ArkDes, the Swedish centre for architecture and design). I teach undergraduate and graduate courses that focus on architecture history, the built environment, and urbanism, as well as courses on art collections and museums of art and architecture. My current research, funded by Arts and Culture Norway, concerns Nordic architecture institutions, particularly the Norsk Arkitekturmuseum.
Courses taught
Emneord: Kunsthistorie, Kunsthistorieforeleser, Arkitektur
Tags:
Architecture,
Urban History,
Art collections and museums
Publications
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Pech, Christina
(2025).
The Great Betrayal: Criticizing the Swedish Welfare State Architect.
In Arrhenius, Thordis Eva K; Braae, Ellen & Ruud, Guttorm (Ed.),
Architecture and Welfare. Scandinavian Perspectives.
Birkhäuser Verlag.
ISSN 9783035627961.
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Pech, Christina
(2024).
History Curated: Architecture Museums - Custodians of the Past, Critics of the Present?
In Hartoonian, Gevork (Eds.),
Valences of Historiography: Essays on Architectural History.
Routledge.
ISSN 9781032558974.
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Legeby, Ann & Pech, Christina
(2023).
Social values and social infrastructures: a multi-perspective approach to place.
Buildings & Cities.
4(1),
p. 801–816.
doi:
10.5334/bc.341.
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The village of Duved in northern Sweden faces rapid transformation related to the tourism industry, including new housing and recreational facilities in the mountains. Existing places with inherent social values that play a key role in supporting local identity are threatened as they are not sufficiently recognised or protected by the planning process. This study focuses on how significant places with social values, and the system of such places that form a social infrastructure, may be identified and recognised through a multi-perspective approach including a creative mapping process. Information from different stakeholders about places with social values is documented and analysed. The approach includes three different perspectives on places affording social values: planning documents, the officials’ perspective and the citizens’ perspective. The mapping method makes intangible knowledge visible and reveals the multifunctionality of places, and the map constitutes the medium for such a process. It can contribute to developing democratic planning processes that support the empowerment of the population and help professionals to integrate knowledge about social value into plans, thus preserving fragile but essential qualities through future development. Practice relevance Centring on the ongoing rapid transformation of Duved village in northern Sweden, this study focuses on how significant places with social values may be identified, recognised and preserved. Places affording social value, important for sustaining local communities and wellbeing, are often insufficiently acknowledged in times of forceful urban development. These oversights can have devastating consequences for the existing social qualities. The creative mapping approach captures three perspectives to identify significant places affording social values. In this way, maps translate intangible knowledge into analytic methods of planning. The result may support the integration of fragile but essential qualities into plans and policies and is a way forward to acknowledge and preserve key places in future urban development.
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Pech, Christina
(2019).
The Museum and the Magazine. Notes on the Historiography of Swedish Modern Architecture.
In Gromark, Sten (Eds.),
After Effects. Rethinking the Social in Architecture.
ACTAR.
ISSN 9781940291994.
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Pech, Christina & Arrhenius, Thordis Eva K
(2017).
The swedish museum of architecture 1962–1978: The making of a national museum of architecture.
OASE : tijdschrift voor architectuur.
ISSN 0169-6238.
99.
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Pech, Christina & Hernandez, Gabriel
(2026).
Session Chair: Mapping New Epistemologies of Collecting and Archiving.
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Pech, Christina & Mattsson, Helena
(2026).
Arkitekturdebatt: Tomrummet Eva lämnat efter sig är en uppmaning till oss alla.
Arkitektur : byggnad, interiör, plan, landskap.
ISSN 0004-2021.
2026(2).
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Pech, Christina
(2025).
Eva Eriksson: Gunnar Asplund. Arkitekt i brytningstid 1909-1931.
Arkitektur : byggnad, interiör, plan, landskap.
ISSN 0004-2021.
2025(3).
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Pech, Christina
(2025).
Institutions and the governing of public space – the changing policies of architecture museums in Finland, Norway, and Sweden.
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Pech, Christina
(2025).
Session Chair: Environment and its disciplinary crossroads: New approaches to an old challenge.
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Pech, Christina & Helena, Mattsson
(2024).
Book conversation: Architecture and Retrenchment.
[Internet].
www.sitezones.net.
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Pech, Christina
(2024).
Recension av Hånd og maskin, Nasjonalmuseet Arkitektur, Oslo.
Arkitektur : byggnad, interiör, plan, landskap.
ISSN 0004-2021.
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Pech, Christina
(2023).
Barbro Östlihn – New York Imprint.
Arkitektur : byggnad, interiör, plan, landskap.
ISSN 0004-2021.
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Pech, Christina
(2023).
Arkitekten Alfred Weissenberg: med omsorg om det vackra, i skuggan av förföljelse och världskrig.
Arkitektur : byggnad, interiör, plan, landskap.
ISSN 0004-2021.
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Pech, Christina & Johan, Celsing
(2022).
Book conversation: Johan Celsing Buildings Texts.
[Internet].
www.sitezones.net.
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Pech, Christina
(2021).
John Sjöström – En arkitekts minnen och tankar om hus.
Bebyggelseshistorisk tidskrift.
ISSN 0349-2834.
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Pech, Christina & Elizabeth, Hatz
(2021).
Studio conversation: Elizabeth Hatz - Drawing as Material Time.
[Internet].
www.sitezones.net.
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Pech, Christina
(2016).
Constructing Erskine. The Legacy of CIAM/Team 10 in the Historiography of Swedish Post-War Architecture.
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Pech, Christina
(2016).
1976: Crisis and Compromise in the Welfare State. Swedish Architectural Debate in the Mid 1970s.
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May 3, 2023 1:11 PM
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Jan. 16, 2026 11:20 AM
