discoveringlocalhistories gilda santana university of miami libraries may 15, 2015
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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.