CCAHA

Architectural Records Symposium: Managing & Preserving Design Records

July 16 & 17, 2007

Chicago, IL

Speakers at this symposium addressed the challenges involved in managing architectural records collections, on both theoretical and practical levels, through case studies, lectures, and demonstrations. Participants learned about the significance of architectural records; the array of materials and methods used to create them, from the earliest processes to those in use today; collecting policies; appraisal; intellectual control; preventive and remedial preservation measures; innovations in conservation treatment; methods of access; reformatting; and management of electronic files; as well as have opportunities to engage in discussions with fellow participants who are managing similar collections.

Sticks and Stones Can Be Demolished, but the Paper Record Survives!

Pauline Saliga

The Fabrication of Architectural Drawings to 1950

Lois Olcott Price

Architectural Records Processes-1950s to Present

Tawny Ryan Nelb

Building Tomorrow's Collections Today: Collections in Architectural Firms

Karen Widi

Arranging and Describing Architectural Records

Laura Tatum

A Standard Approach to Arrangement and Description of Architectural Records

Waverly Lowell

Appraisal of Architectural Records

Waverly Lowell

Why in the ----- do you roll your drawings?!:” Case Studies in Preservation Management and Planning for the Louis I. Kahn Collection of Architectural Records

William Whitaker

Housing Recommendations for Architectural Records: The Sacred and the Profane

Joan Irving

Access and Architecture at The Art Institute of Chicago: A Case Study

Mary Woolever and Lori Hanna Boyer

Reformatting Options for Architectural Records Collections

Bruce Laverty

A System for Archiving Born-Digital Architecture and Design Data at the Art Institute of Chicago

Kristine K. Fallon

Conservation Projects for Architectural Records

Lois Olcott Price and Joan Irving

Legal and Copyright Considerations for Architectural Records

William J. Maher