Some years ago, the Ethnological Society of West Sweden was contacted by the Utby Hembygdsförening for help in producing a book on Utby/Utbynäs, a district on the outskirts of Gothenburg. As vice president of the association and researcher and author, I was asked to compile the book together with my colleague Håkan Andréasson. The book was published in spring 2011 and has since been nominated for and received an honorable mention as the local history book of the year. Part of the book deals with the architecturally interesting district of Utbynäs, where the architect Arvid Bjerke at the beginning of the 20th century created a number of villas in the national romantic style with some influence from the earlier Jugend era. For reasons of space, only a fraction of the material on Arvid Bjerke and the Utbynäs district was included. Arvid Bjerke went on to become one of the leading architects in Gothenburg and had a great influence on the buildings created in connection with Gothenburg's centenary celebrations in 1923. Together with Robin Barnholdt, an architectural antiquarian who has worked with the unique buildings in Utbynäs as part of his education at the University of Gothenburg, the intention is to create a book about Arvid Bjerke and Utbynäs, but also the rest of Utby's buildings and his continued work based on all the collected material.