Annual Symposium 2020
In light of the ongoing pandemic, the Annual Symposium (originally scheduled for May) will take the form of a series of 4 virtual symposia and seminars between July and October. Run in partnership between the SAHGB, AA Archives and RIBA Collections, we will explore the connections between architecture and archives. The relationship between the two provides a primary interface between architectural history and practice, but has been little explored by either discipline. In four sessions we will ask who is represented (and who is not) in architectural archives, what the role of these repositories is for practice and pedagogy, who they serve, and what their future looks like in the age of BIM and Post-Occupancy Evaluation.
In this second session we delve into the symbiotic relationship between practice and pedagogy that lies at the heart of the architectural archive. Bringing together a distinguished panel of historians, archivists (from a range of settings, including contemporary architectural offices), designers and educators, we will question what the terms of ‘practice’ and ‘pedagogy’ signify within each field, analyzing how they operate and relate to each other.
Case studies and theoretical papers will address a broad array of topics, aiming to highlight areas of convergence, and perhaps of tension, between the disciplines. In an attempt to forge broad connections, discussions will range from speculative questions around methodologies used for archival appraisal, arrangement and description, to examples of ways in which teaching can ‘re-animate’ the archive, to studies of the very practical issues surrounding archival capture in the digital environment of the modern architectural office.
Programme
This event will feature the following papers for presentation. The session will include the opportunity for Q+A chaired by Ed Bottoms, Eleanor Gawne and Lex Frost.
14:00 Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Edward Bottoms, Eleanor Gawne, and Lexi Frost (AA Archives)
14:10 The Epistemology of CI/SFB: Categorising Architectural Knowledge in 1960s Britain
Adam Sharr (Newcastle University)
14:30 From the Architecture of the Report to the Archive: Containers, Continents and Categories
Albert Brenchat-Aguilar (Birkbeck, University of London)
14:50 Curating the DEGW Archive as a Living Archive/The ‘Living Archive’ in Action
Hiral Patel (Cardiff University) and Stuart Green (University of Reading)
15:10 Appraise|Erase: Archival Practice and the Shaping of Architectural History
Aymee Thorn Clark (Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners)
15:30 An Architect in the Archives: EW Godwin
Richard W. Hayes (Independent Scholar)
15:50 Discussion/Break
16:05 An Architectural Magazine’s Afterlife
Stephen Parnell (Newcastle University)
16:25 In Search of Value: Mining the Later Twentieth Century Collections at the Irish Architectural Archive
Colum O’Riordan (Irish Architectural Archive) and Ellen Rowley (University College Dublin)
16:45 Drawing on the Archive: Architectural Education and Archival Practice
Edward Bottoms and Eleanor Gawne (Architectural Association)
17:05 Teach (with) Architectural Archives, Challenge the Canons of Architectural History
Volker Welter (University of California, Santa Barbara)
17:25 The AJ Davis Archive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ideas for Revitalizing the Study of Early Victorian Architecture in the United States
Horatio Joyce (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
17:45 Discussion
18:00 Close
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