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SUMMARY:Fragile Objects\, Coded Knowledge by Anna-Maria Meister / TPOD\, A
 CHT\, THEMA\, HITAM
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DESCRIPTION:Anna-Maria Meister (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz: Max
  Planck Institute\, KIT and saai archive Karlsruhe)\nArchitectural archive
 s are the site of an assortment of more or less stable objects\, shielded 
 from further decay\, assembled for a belated historical gaze. They are als
 o sites where narratives are constructed\, to solidify as well as challeng
 e canonical assumptions and disciplinary conventions. But exactly how stab
 le\, or rather\, how fragile are these objects that program current histor
 ical knowledge? While it has become a widely acknowledged foundation of hi
 storical research to reflect on how archives are contested territorial neg
 otiations\, full of lacunae and desperately lacking\, what happens to the 
 stuff already within them? How do archival materials and processes (databa
 se entries\, metadata categories\, packaging\, but also archivists\, donor
 s\, and users) discriminate those who already made it into its (highly gat
 e-kept) purview? After all\, architecture archives are vast material depos
 itories of boxes\, folders\, models\, copies or photographs\, of chairs an
 d tables\, screws and fabrics\, most of which were never processed\, catal
 ogued\, or even read. How is one to trace figures who already made it into
  the archival infrastructures\, but got lost after their seeming inclusion
 ? What about those who drop out of metadata or remain hidden in items cons
 idered “domestic” and “private\,” fragile objects in need of decod
 ing\, which still often get discounted from a so-called “oeuvre”? This
  lecture will tell three stories of disappearances—of a collaborator\, a
  daughter and wife\, and an emigrée—tracing their path into the archive
  (and out of it) in an attempt to retrain the eye on the materiality that 
 the archive presents. Refocusing on the matter of architectural historie
 s might reveal how one can re-imagine the writing of others.\n\nProf. Dr. 
 Anna-Maria Meister is an architect and architectural theorist working at t
 he intersection of histories of architecture and histories of knowledge wi
 th a focus on the design of processes and processes of design and their po
 litical\, social\, and aesthetic consequences. She is Professor of Theory 
 of Architecture at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology\, Co-Director of 
 the saai Archive for Architecture and Engineering Structures\, and Lise Me
 itner Group Leader for the project “Coded Objects” at the Kunsthistori
 sches Institut in Florence - Max Planck Institute.\n\nNeighbours Lecture 
 Series Vol. 3\n\n13/3 - Pier Vittorio Aureli (EPFL). Architecture and Abs
 traction: Book Launch with Sarah Nichols\, Christophe van Gerrewey\, and A
 lfredo Thiermann\n20/3 - Tatiana Efrussi (L’atelier des artistes en exil
 ). Hannes Meyer’s Kinderheim Mümliswil: From Utopian 'Home' to National
  Memorial\n27/3 - Sarah Gainsforth (Journalist). Challenging the New Housi
 ng Question\n10/4 - Claire Zimmerman (University of Toronto). Industrial A
 rchitecture\, Situated in the Twentieth Century\n24/4 - Álvaro Sevilla-Bu
 itrago (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid). Against the Commons: Elements
  for a Radical Planning Theory\n1/5 - Spyros Papapetros (Princeton Univers
 ity). Pre/Architecture\n8/5 - Anna-Maria Meister (Kunsthistorisches Instit
 ut in Florenz: Max Planck Institute\, KIT and saai archive Karlsruhe). Fra
 gile Objects\, Coded Knowledge\n15/5 - Platon Issaias (Architectural Assoc
 iation) & Ioanna Theocharopoulou (Columbia University). On the Polykatoiki
 a and its Discontents
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