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."



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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

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