Provenance in Architecture

The provenance of artworks is a burning issue in current scholarship and politics. Transpose provenance into architecture and it reveals new and surprising dimensions in the social, material and cultural lives of buildings and architectural artefacts, reframing questions of migration, movement and circulation. Provenance in architecture illuminates the intricate trajectories of fundamentally composite objects from their complex origins to their uncertain destinations.  This dictionary examines architectural provenance across 101 key concepts from "Acquisition" to "Will". The entries provide new ways of writing architectural history, highlighting how architecture moves, is destroyed, survives and is transformed. Uwe Fleckner is a professor in art history at the University of Hamburg and conducts provenance research as a director of the Research Centre of "Degenerate Art." Mari Lending is a professor in architectural history and theory at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and directs the international research project "Provenance Projected: Architecture Past and Future in the Era of Circularity."

Cover Half Title Page Title Page Contents Architectural provenance A preamble Acquisition Actor Afterlife Architectural drawing Archive Artefact Attribution Authentication Authenticity Authorship Bond Bricolage Capitalism Cargo Catalogue Celebrity Circulation Collecting Collective memory Component Concrete Construction site Contract Copyright Costs Counter-monument Craft Crisis Deaccessioning Demolition Dereliction Displacement Dispossession Dispute Doppelgänger Dust Element Exhibition Expropriation Extension Facsimile Fire Fragility Fragment Framing Ghosts Graffiti Heritage Image vehicle Inheritance Inscription Labour Lacuna Maintenance Material Mobility Model Monument, toppled Moveables Network Obsolescence Occupation Palimpsest Pasticcio Patina Photography Plaster cast Political iconography Postproduction Precedent Preservation Pristine Privilegio Provenience Quarry Quote Readymade Reconstruction Recycling Renovation Reparation Reproduction Residents Restitution Restoration Reuse Ruin Sourcing Spolia Storage Subtraction Theft Thing-right Transfer Transformation Translocation Type project Vandalism War Weathering Will Bibliography Image credits Contributors Colophon