Situated Practices: Three Architectural Archives in the City of Buenos Aires

As cultural active infrastructures in the production of disciplinary knowledge, this study examines the operational and epistemological transformations of three architectural archives in Buenos Aires: Historical Archive of the Central Society of Architects, Administration of Argentine Architecture a...

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Autor principal: Méndez, Patricia
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Publicado: Facultad de Arquitectura, Planeamiento y Diseño | Universidad Nacional de Rosario 2025
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archives
architecture
Acceso en línea:https://www.ayp.fapyd.unr.edu.ar/index.php/ayp/article/view/530
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spelling I15-R196-article-5302025-12-12T14:04:12Z Situated Practices: Three Architectural Archives in the City of Buenos Aires Prácticas situadas: tres archivos de arquitectura en la ciudad de Buenos Aires Méndez, Patricia archivos arquitectura Buenos Aires DAR AHSCA CEDODAL archives architecture Buenos Aires CEDODAL AHSCA DAR As cultural active infrastructures in the production of disciplinary knowledge, this study examines the operational and epistemological transformations of three architectural archives in Buenos Aires: Historical Archive of the Central Society of Architects, Administration of Argentine Architecture and Design Archives and Centre of Latin American Architecture Documentation. Through a qualitative approach combining fieldwork, conversations with curators and a review of their collections, classification and conservation strategies as well as management methods of their documentary holdings are examined. The results reflect their capacity to generate interpretive networks, implementation of protocols adapted to material diversity, and institutional openness thanks to public and inter-institutional access policies. Thus, this text contributes to the disciplinary field by highlighting institutional experiences that, far from replicating hegemonic models, develop situated practices of documentary management articulating their conservation with historiographical research and curatorial activation. These experiences not only consolidate the architecture archive as a cultural infrastructure but also position it as an effective agent in the construction of architectural knowledge influencing disciplinary narratives and the production of knowledge from peripheral territories. Entendidos como infraestructuras culturales activas en la producción de conocimiento disciplinar, este estudio examina las transformaciones operativas y epistemológicas de tres archivos de arquitectura localizados en Buenos Aires: Archivo Histórico de la Sociedad Central de Arquitectos, la Dirección de Archivos de Arquitectura y Diseño Argentinos y el Centro de Documentación de Arquitectura Latinoamericana. Mediante un enfoque cualitativo que articuló trabajo de campo, conversaciones con responsables y revisión de sus colecciones, estos párrafos derivan de examinar estrategias de clasificación, de conservación y los métodos de gestión de sus fondos documentales. Los resultados dan cuenta de la capacidad para generar redes interpretativas, la implementación de protocolos adaptados a la diversidad material y la apertura institucional de estos centros gracias a políticas de acceso público e interinstitucional. Así, este texto contribuye al campo disciplinar destacando experiencias institucionales que, lejos de replicar modelos hegemónicos, desarrollan prácticas situadas de gestión documental, articulando su conservación con la investigación historiográfica y la activación curatorial. Estas experiencias no solo consolidan al archivo de arquitectura como infraestructura cultural, sino que lo posicionan como un agente eficaz en la construcción del saber arquitectónico, capaz de incidir en las narrativas disciplinarias y en la producción de conocimiento desde territorios periféricos. Facultad de Arquitectura, Planeamiento y Diseño | Universidad Nacional de Rosario 2025-12-06 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion text/html application/epub+zip application/pdf https://www.ayp.fapyd.unr.edu.ar/index.php/ayp/article/view/530 10.35305/23626097v12i23.530 A&P Continuidad; Vol. 12 Núm. 23 (2025): ARCHIVOS DE ARQUITECTURA Y URBANISMO EN AMÉRICA LATINA: CONFIGURACIONES Y VIVENCIAS INTERNAS 2362-6097 2362-6089 spa https://www.ayp.fapyd.unr.edu.ar/index.php/ayp/article/view/530/705 https://www.ayp.fapyd.unr.edu.ar/index.php/ayp/article/view/530/706 https://www.ayp.fapyd.unr.edu.ar/index.php/ayp/article/view/530/735 Derechos de autor 2025 A&P Continuidad http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
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Buenos Aires
CEDODAL
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DAR
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Situated Practices: Three Architectural Archives in the City of Buenos Aires
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title Situated Practices: Three Architectural Archives in the City of Buenos Aires
title_short Situated Practices: Three Architectural Archives in the City of Buenos Aires
title_full Situated Practices: Three Architectural Archives in the City of Buenos Aires
title_fullStr Situated Practices: Three Architectural Archives in the City of Buenos Aires
title_full_unstemmed Situated Practices: Three Architectural Archives in the City of Buenos Aires
title_sort situated practices: three architectural archives in the city of buenos aires
description As cultural active infrastructures in the production of disciplinary knowledge, this study examines the operational and epistemological transformations of three architectural archives in Buenos Aires: Historical Archive of the Central Society of Architects, Administration of Argentine Architecture and Design Archives and Centre of Latin American Architecture Documentation. Through a qualitative approach combining fieldwork, conversations with curators and a review of their collections, classification and conservation strategies as well as management methods of their documentary holdings are examined. The results reflect their capacity to generate interpretive networks, implementation of protocols adapted to material diversity, and institutional openness thanks to public and inter-institutional access policies. Thus, this text contributes to the disciplinary field by highlighting institutional experiences that, far from replicating hegemonic models, develop situated practices of documentary management articulating their conservation with historiographical research and curatorial activation. These experiences not only consolidate the architecture archive as a cultural infrastructure but also position it as an effective agent in the construction of architectural knowledge influencing disciplinary narratives and the production of knowledge from peripheral territories.
publisher Facultad de Arquitectura, Planeamiento y Diseño | Universidad Nacional de Rosario
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