Besler / Hearne Beyond Provenance

The Entangled Lives of Buildings and Documents
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-98612-316-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

 confronts architecture’s reliance on records that define materials through fixed notions of origin, ownership, and value. Against the backdrop of contemporary environmental and social challenges, the book asks how building materials are extracted, circulated, reused, and transformed—and how these processes might be recorded differently. Bringing together historians, artists, conservators, and architects working across disciplines and geographies, it expands architecture’s field of inquiry from buildings and sites to quarries, archives, engineered lakes, and demolition yards. By examining the politics of provenance and documentation, the contributors question established practices of stabilization and certification and explore more speculative, collective, and mutable approaches to materials, histories, and design.

• Questions architecture’s prevalent emphasis on origins, property, and value through an interdisciplinary approach
• Connects resource extraction, material reuse, and circular construction with architectural documentation
• Features experimental graphic design in a richly illustrated book, including holes drilled through the book block

Autoren/Hrsg.

Besler, Erin

Hearne, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architekten & Architekturbüros

Über Autor(innen)

Erin Besler is an assistant professor of architecture at Princeton University and cofounder of Besler & Sons, a design studio working across buildings, software, objects, exhibitions, and interiors. Her research and design practice examines architecture as a collective project, with particular attention to the social, pedagogical, and material conditions of construction and architectural production. Her work has received support and recognition from the Architectural League of New York, United States Artists, the American Academy in Rome, and the Graham Foundation, among others.

Sarah Hearne is an architectural historian, educator, and curator, and an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver. Her research examines the material and media histories of architectural drawing, documentation, and production. She curated  (2023) at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture and was the associate curator of (2018) at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Her work has been supported by the Getty Foundation and the Graham Foundation.