Archiving/Architecture

It is conventional and useful for both architects and archivists to recognize that architecture exists in two distinct modes: first, the built artifact and, second, representations of that artifact. This division is useful precisely because it allows architecture in the second sense to be collected,...

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Published inArchives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory p. 54
Main Author Kent Kleinman
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Michigan Press 02.03.2011
Subjects
Aesthetic objects
Aesthetics
Anthropology
Applied anthropology
Applied arts
Applied sciences
Architectural archives
Architectural photography
Architectural restoration
Architecture
Archival science
Archives
Archiving
Art conservation
Art history
Art objects
Arts
Axiology
Behavioral sciences
Brick buildings
Buildings
Cultural anthropology
Cultural institutions
Imaging
Information science
Library science
Masonry buildings
Philosophy
Photography
Residential buildings
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Summary:It is conventional and useful for both architects and archivists to recognize that architecture exists in two distinct modes: first, the built artifact and, second, representations of that artifact. This division is useful precisely because it allows architecture in the second sense to be collected, cataloged, and protected by archival institutions without the necessity of dealing with the messy business of built work. The Le Corbusier Foundation in Paris does not collect buildings by the French master, although it is housed in one; the Mies van der Rohe archive at the Museum of Modern Art in New York contains not
ISBN:047211493X
9780472114931
DOI:10.3998/mpub.93171.9