Architectural Archivists and Historians Quiz

They play key roles in how we protect and care about each other in society.

Archival records can re-activate architectural communities' curiosity toward minor matters of inhabitation.

By listing and stacking records, we bypass documents' usual hierarchies and roles.

<p>The analytical mode focuses on individual instances of expression, allowing them to resonate.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>'Minor literature' amplifies connections to the wider social and political environment in which they operate.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Avoiding immediate all-encompassing narratives allows for a focus on individual expressions and practices.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Byker project's architectural records included minor matters and trivialities of lived experience that were far removed from the typical object-centered focus of most architectural records. These matters were found worthy of note, even though they had no obvious relevance to architectural production.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Northern European Welfare States promoted universalist ideas characterized by an ethos of justness and solidarity to guide the increased consumption of their populations. Architects and planners were instrumental in envisioning this 'good', or universalist, life for welfare state citizens.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Documents such as furnished drawings, use manuals, and design and planning guidelines (including the Parker Morris standards for housing in the UK) were central to the ways architects mediated the environments they sought to design.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Critics pointed out that the deterministic schema and ethos of the welfare state approach did not account for residents' personal and unpredictable activities and desires – the anthropological differentiations – that need to be acknowledged if true democratic engagement is to take place. These critiques eventually led to radical experiments with citizen engagement in architecture.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Byker project's architectural team, Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor AB, established a site office in a former funeral parlor in the middle of the Byker Estate. This suggests a hands-on, engaged approach to the design process, with the architects embedded within the community they were designing for.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Architects were instrumental in envisioning the 'good', or universalist, life of welfare state citizens. They mediated the designed environments through documents like furnished drawings, use manuals, and design guidelines. However, critiques eventually led to more radical experiments with citizen engagement, as the deterministic schema was seen as insufficient for accounting for residents' personal needs and desires.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Shared spaces like external stairs, play areas with equipment and benches.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Noise from children playing on external stairs and in shared spaces.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That it was important for tenants to have a private part of the living space to withdraw into, otherwise stress would result.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They removed tables and benches from Janet Square.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That the architects should follow residents' requests regarding front garden fences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They documented feedback from residents and the architects' responses, informing design changes.</p> Signup and view all the answers