Managing Architectural Archives

ForThe School of Architecture

University of Miami

Discovering Local

Histories

GILDA SANTANAUniversity of Miami Libraries

May 15, 2015

MATERIAL TYPES• Blueprints• Hand drawings• Construction documents• Personal papers• Photographs• Sketchbooks• Prints• Audio-visual • Scrapbooks• Newsletters

• Ephemera• Clippings• Student work• Born digital files• Models• SOA Archives• 35mm slides

Celebration Pattern Book, March 1995

ANU Correspondence Example : Letter from EPZ to Eric Emerson at The Celebration Company soliciting materials for the archive.

The New Urbanism Archive

FINDING AID

RECEIVING COLLECTIONS

Condition assessment

Re-housing & labeling

UM Libraries Preservation team member stabilizing and mending (pre-digitization)

1. Torn blueprint before mending

2 & 3. Application of wheatpaste paper and mending

4. Drying weight

4. After mending

Cultivating Donor Relations

Robert Fitch Smith Papers, 1894-1964 http://proust.library.miami.edu/findingaids/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=1444&q=robert+fitch+smith

Biscayne Boulevard concept development plan by Roberto Burle-Marx. 1988. Diazotype print, 42” x 54”

Oleta River State Recreation Area, Miami FL., Concept Design, Roberto Burle Marx, 1981. Diazotype, 56” 41”

ESSENTIAL RESOURCES

Bibliography

Adams, William Howard. 1991. Roberto Burle Marx: the unnatural art of the garden. Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Greene, Mark A., and Dennis E. Meissner. 2005. “More product, less process: revamping traditional archival processing”. American Archivist. 68 (2).

Kissel, Eleonore, and Erin Vigneau. 1999. Architectural photoreproductions: a manual for identification and care. New Castle,DE: Oak Knoll Press

Porter, Vicki, and Robin Thornes. 1994. A guide to the description of architectural drawings. New York: G.K. Hall.

Price, Lois Olcott. 2010. Line, shade, and shadow: the fabrication and preservation of architectural drawings. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press.

Society of American archivists, and Steven L. Hensen. 2004. Describing archives: a content standard. Chicago: Society of American Archivists.

1989. “Miami streetscape.” Landscape Architecture 79, no. 2:16.