The first definition was formulated in the conference “Towards standards for Architectural Archives” in Washington DC in 1982, with the participation of the International Confederation of Architectural Museums, the International Council of Museums, the International Council of Monuments and Sites, the Union International des Architects and UNESCO. It “designates any documentary material and anything annexed to it being correlated to the history, the theory and the practice of Architecture and the domains connected, whichever are the supports and the physical features […] created or received by public or private entities during their activities and […] collected, wherever it comes from”.
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Digital Representation Techniques to Interpret, Communicate, and Share 20th c. Architectural Archives: The Case Study – Rosani's Archive
Copyright: © 2017
|Pages: 29
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0680-5.ch014
Abstract
20th c. Architectural Archives are probably the latest and hugest collections of architectural documents on paper. Their conservation depends largely on the discovery, analysis, comprehension and interpretation of their value as Cultural Heritage. Today design documents produced by contemporary masters of Architecture, especially original drawings, are usually digitized and shared in the Web at scholars' disposal. The fate of the Archives that preserve the design drawings of minor architectures is completely different, so that the main motive of their safeguard has to be found in the recognition of their value as the testimony of a diffused architecture, significant to trace a framework of the building activity of their time. This is the case of the Archive of Industrial Architecture produced by Nino and Paolo Rosani, active in Turin up to 2010, for which a series of digital devices designed to enhance and communicate its most relevant content are being hypothesized.