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December 2, 2021

2021-Building History Journal

Bebyggelsehistorisk tidskrift (BHT) is the leading Nordic journal in the field of building history. The journal is peer-reviewed and Open Access.

February 1, 2021

2020-Norway in Sweden - Embassy of Norway in Stockholm

The Norwegian Embassy in Stockholm is perhaps Norway's most beautiful representative building outside its borders. The project is the brainchild of architect Knut Knutsen, and has...

February 1, 2021

2020-SHF Yearbook 2021, Jakob Christensson "Water worlds"

Jakob Christensson's book Aquatic Creatures is an accessible history of ideas and knowledge about animals that live their lives in the oceans...

February 1, 2021

2020-Landshövdingehuset. Typically Gothenburg!

Landshövdingehuset is a residential building with a brick ground floor and wooden second and third floors. It was introduced in the 1870s in...

February 1, 2021

2020-Book for children about Swedish architecture

Today there are no books for children about Swedish architecture. I am an architect SAR/MSA and have written the manuscript for a book...

February 1, 2021

2020-Selma Giöbel and Swedish Art Nouveau textiles

The project 'Selma Giöbel and Swedish Art Nouveau Textiles' examines Art Nouveau textiles as a commodity and design phenomenon in Sweden between 1885-1915...

February 1, 2021

2020-Villastaden Paradiset. A book about people, houses and development over 120 years.

A book about the villa town Paradiset - but also a book about the development of Partille municipality during the 20th century. In Paradiset there is...

February 1, 2021

2020-Analysis of ritually deposited rock axes during early agrarian culture

The Stensborg site in Grödinge sn is the most significant site for the destruction of objects from the Early Neolithic period (early agrarian society ca....

February 1, 2021

2020-Gåtan in Gårdby

A few years ago, archaeologists carried out an archaeological survey of the remains of Gårdby's medieval church. It was in connection with ...

February 1, 2021

2020-Harbor and industrial heritage inventory of Gothenburg- part 3

At the same rate as Gothenburg's buildings are being transformed and renewed, the city's historic port and industrial environments are disappearing. The knowledge base ...

February 1, 2021

2020-Publication of Sturlunga saga in three volumes

Sturlunga saga is the name of a coherent compilation of so-called contemporary sagas or contemporary chronicles from 13th century Iceland. It is a...

February 1, 2021

2020-Cultural preparedness. Cultural heritage, air defense and propaganda in the Nordic countries 1939 -1945

The idea that the next major war would involve civil society and be devastating was widespread in the 1930s. It would not only be a...