Abstract

A recent book edited by architectural historian Federica Goffi considers how architectural drawings and models can take new life by virtue of their inclusion within archives. The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models: From Translating to Archiving, Collecting and Displaying explores what Goffi calls the “afterlives” of architectural media, adopting a concept from art historian Aby Warburg. The volume gathers 35 essays that examine the many ways drawings and models survive their use for building to become “instruments of imagination, communication, and historical continuity” (i) in new contexts. If the architectural office or construction site is where the productive lives of drawings and models originally unfold, the archive is the primary site of their afterlives. Contributions from architects, artists, historians, collectors, curators, and archivists recount how archives, as structures and sites, allow for interpretive, creative, and ultimately “constructive” modes of engagement with drawings and models to produce new architectural knowledge.

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