Christopher Vainesworth

PhD candidate at the Dept. of Art History since January 2023. My research field is architectural history and the built environment, social history and women's history. I hold an MA (2014) and a BA Hons. (2012) in Art History from Uppsala University, and an MA (2015) in Archival Sciences from Stockholm University. I've worked with building drawings as an archivist at Stockholm City Archives since 2015. Dissertation project on women as commissioners of architecture in Stockholm 1725–1874.

My dissertation project is about women as commissioners of architecture in Stockholm 1725–1874. Amongst 13 000 drawings of building permits between 1713–1874 are ca 550 women with 650 drawings starting from 1725. The women are building new houses, rebuilding or making extensions, and come from different classes in society and erects everything from outhouses with privies and stables, to bowling alleys, gazebos, residences, breweries or rooms for rent.