Prof. Dr. Jennifer Mack

Jennifer Mack is an associate professor and docent at the KTH School of Architecture, a Pro Futura Scientia Fellow of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, and a member of the Young Academy of Sweden. An architectural historian and social anthropologist, she investigates postwar European suburbs as targets of anxious political and planning actions (including renovations and demolitions) with grave environmental and social consequences and highlights alternative, more hopeful narratives.

Mack’s first book, The Construction of Equality: Syriac Immigration and the Swedish City (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), received the SfAA/AAA Margaret Mead Award, and, as coeditor, she has published Life Among Urban Planners: Practice, Professionalism, and Expertise in the Making of the City (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020) and Rethinking the Social in Architecture: Making Effects (Actar, 2019). Her projects have been funded by Forte, the Graham Foundation, Formas, the Mellon Foundation, Riksbanken Jubileumsfond, Vetenskapsrådet, and more. Mack serves on the editorial boards of Thresholds and Human Organization and is an associate editor of Housing, Theory and Society. She holds a PhD in architecture, urbanism, and anthropology from Harvard University and a master’s in architecture, as well as a master’s in city planning from MIT.

RCC Project: Modernism’s Hereafters: Reports from the Welfare City

Selected Publications:

• “‘Daddy is a Computer’—The Stubborn Stories of the Swedish Million Program.” In Architecture and Welfare: Scandinavian Perspectives, edited by Thordis Arrhenius, Ellen Braae, and Guttorm Ruud. Birkhäuser, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035627992.
• “Nature-Thinking.” In Multiplicity: On Constraint and Agency in Contemporary Architecture, edited by Pari Riahi, Laure Katsaros, and Michael T. Davis. University of Massachusetts Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.16738700.
• “Modernism in the Present Tense: ‘Dangerous’ Scandinavian Suburbs and Their Hereafters.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 41, no. 4 (2023): 656–82. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758231182147.
• “Impossible Nostalgia: Green Affect in the Landscapes of the Swedish Million Programme.” In “Welfare Landscapes,” ed. Ellen Braae, Svava Riesto, Henriette Steiner, and Anne Tietjen. Special issue, Landscape Research 46, no. 4 (2021): 558–73. https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2020.1858248.
• “Green Affect: A ‘Landscape Music of the Artefacts’ in the Swedish Million Programme.” In Architectural Affects after Deleuze and Guattari, edited by Marko Jobst and Hélène Frichot. Routledge, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429355400.
• The Construction of Equality: Syriac Immigration and the Swedish City. University of Minnesota Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816698691.001.0001.