ABSTRACT

Architectural drawings and models are instruments of imagination, communication, and historical continuity. The role of drawings and models, their ownership, placement, and authorship in a ubiquitous digital age deserves careful consideration. Expanding on the well-established discussion of the translation from drawings to buildings, this book fills a lacuna in current scholarly publications, questioning the significance of the lives of drawings and models after construction.

Including emerging, well-known and world-renowned scholars in the fields of architectural history and theory and curatorial practices, the 35 contributions define recent research in four key areas:

  • Drawing Sites/Sites of Knowledge Construction: Drawing, Office, Construction Site;

  • The Afterlife of Drawings and Models: Archiving, Collecting, Displaying and Exhibiting;

  • Tools of Making: Architectural Representations and their Apparatus Over Time;

  • The Ethical Responsibilities of Collecting and Archiving: Authorship, Ownership, Copyrights, and Rights to Copy.

The research covers a wide range of geographies and delves into the practices of such architects as Sir John Soane, Superstudio, Viollet-le-Duc, Frank Lloyd Wright, Wajiro Kon, Germán Samper Gnecco, A+PS, Mies van der Rohe and Renzo Piano.

Introduction CECI N’EST PAS UNE ARCHIVE FEDERICA GOFFI  Chapters Abstracts BY CONTRIBUTORS  SECTION 1: DRAWING SITES / SITES OF KNOWLEDGE CONSTRUCTION  1. A Well Sited Archive ALBA DI LIETO  2. The ‘House Arrest’ of Michelangelo’s Mural Drawings JONATHAN FOOTE  3. Representing Geohistory AISLING O’CARROLL  4. Buildings as Unsolicited Drawing Surfaces KONSTANTINOS AVRAMIDIS  5. Brazilian Architecture Archives and Contemporary Challenges SOL CAMACHO 6. The Place of Models and Drawings in Sir John Soane’s House and Museum HELEN DOREY  7. The Fabbriceria and the Mise en a-BIM CLAUDIO SGARBI and JESSE RAFEIRO  8. Finding Traces in Germán Samper’s Sketches MARIA ELISA NAVARRO MORALES, CRISTINA ALBORNOZ RUGELES, ALEJANDRO HENRÍQUEZ LUQUE  9. The Living Archive RENZO PIANO (RPBW) + CHIARA BENNATI, NICOLETTA DURANTE, GIOVANNA LANGASCO (RPF) interviewed by FEDERICA GOFFI  SECTION 2: THE AFTERLIFE OF DRAWINGS AND MODELS  10. Chance and Change OLIVIA HORSFALL TURNER  11. Life and Afterlife of a Design Process SIMONA VALERIANI  12. Thin Sheets ASHLEY MASON  13. The Intimate Archive SOPHIA BANOU  14. Monuments in Motion CAROLINA B. GARCÍA ESTÉVEZ  15. The Secret Afterlife of Three Drawings and the Reproduction They Spawned ADAM SHARR  16. The Singular Afterlife of What Was Once an Architectural Model JOÃO MIGUEL COUTO DUARTE  17. Ever-lasting Inspirations of the Archival Architectural Drawings in Japan IZUMI KUROISHI  18. When is Architecture Art? JORDAN KAUFFMAN  19. Cold War Odyssey: DIETRICH NEUMANN  SECTION 3: TOOLS OF MAKING AND KNOWLEDGE CONSTRUCTION  20. I Will Begin with the Jar of Empty Pen Caps WILLIAM WHITAKER  21. Animate Instruments PAUL EMMONS  22. The Architectural Office Space as a Measuring Tool MARIAN MACKEN, SAROSH MULLA, AARON PATERSON  23. Tear It Down!  FABIO COLONNESE  24. On the Archive Table ATHANSIOU GEOLAS  25. How a Wrapping Paper Transforms Its Contents SAMUEL KORN  26. 108 Embodiments of Potential Architecture JEAN-PIERRE CHUPIN, CARMELA CUCUZZELLA  27. The Nature of Architecture JONATHAN HILL  SECTION 4: THE ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF COLLECTING AND ARCHIVING  28. A Collector’s Ethical Responsibilities? NIALL HOBHOUSE interviewed by ANDREW CLANCY  29. The Move of the Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings and Models NEIL LEVINE  30. After the Original (the Afterimage) MARCIA F. FEUERSTEIN  31. Rise and Fall of a Draftsman ELISA BOERI  32. Collecting "slowly but surely" CHRISTINA PECH  33. On the Silence of the Colonial Archive ÉMÉLIE DESROCHERS-TURGEON  34. The Luis Barragán Archives LOUISE NOELLE  35. The Anxiety of Architectural Archives JANET PARKS  Index

　

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