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 the final session of our symposium series on ARCH/TECTURES ARCH/VES we pull together the findings of our exploration of the multivalent relationships between architecture and archives, with a series of papers that delve deeply into, and cut across, the themes previously explored in the three sessions held through the summer.
Join us for a packed and diverse range of papers and international speakers, drawn from leading archives and collections as well as higher education contexts.
Programme
This event will feature the following papers for presentation. The session will include the opportunity for Q+A chaired by India Whiteley and Lexi Frost.
9:30 Opening Remarks
9:50 The University Architectural Archive and User-Led Activism
Harriet Edquist (RMIT University, Melbourne)
10:10 Keeping Meaning: The Cosmic House Museum Archive In the Making
Lily Jencks (Lily Jencks Studio) and Edwin Heathcote
10:30 Sir John Soane’s Museum Library as an Instrument of Legacy?
Fran Sands (Sir John Soane’s Museum)
10:50 Questions/Break
11:30 A Journey Through the Archives of Zaha Hadid Architects
Manon Janssens, (ZHA)
11:50 The Provocative Role of the Everyday Archive in an Age of Digital Retrieval
Tom Coward (AOC)
12:10 The archive in contemporary architectural design practice- buildings as repositories?
Charlott Grueb (University of North Dakota)
12:30 Mine the Gap: Archiving is Not Enough, Emilie Banville (Eindhoven University of Technology & University of Quebec in Montreal)
12:50 Questions/Break
13:30 Pride of Place: Towards an Archive of Queer Buildings?
Alison Oram (Historic England)
13:50 ‘We Are What We Keep:’ Archives, Women and Architectural Histories
Elizabeth Darling (Oxford Brookes)
14:10 Archive as Project: Recovering Colonial Histories of the Built Environment
Yasmina El Chami (University of Cambridge)
14:30 Peripheral Archives: Instances from Colonial India
Tania Sengupta (Batlett School of Architecture, University College London)
14:50 Questions/Break
15:20 ‘Questo è a Mantova di mano di meser giovann battista alberti’ ‘This is in Mantua, of the hand of Sir Giovann Battista Alberti’
Elizabeth Merrill (The Warburg Institute)
15:40 Mind the Gap: Exploring the gaps at Avery Drawings & Archives
Pamela Casey and Shelley Hayreh (Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York)
16:00 Questions/Break
16:20 The Legacy of Sub-Basement 8: The itinerant and diminishing archives of the LCC Architect’s Department
Ruth Lang (Central St Martins)
16:40 The formation of the Computer Research Group and the state-academic-industrial complex in Britain in the late 1960
Eleni Axioti (The Architectural Association)
17:00 Classified: Architecture Archives in the Age of Secrecy
Aaron Cayer (University of New Mexico)
17:20 Questions / Break
18:00 Plenary Discussion
18:30 Close
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