ARCHIVE NARRATIVES. CURATORIAL PROPOSALS BASED ON ARCHIVE COLLECTION DOCUMENTS

Ridoutt M.L. · 18th International Docomomo Conference and Students Workshop: Modern Futures. Sustainable Development and Cultural Diversity (2024)

Resumen

In the Peruvian context, where an established architectural narrative is still lacking, it is urgent not only to communicate but also to imagine its architectural identity and promote a broader vision of its architecture. The objective of this essay is to present an alternative to bridge these gaps through virtual architecture exhibitions using archival material. These exhibitions provide greater visibility and dissemination of architecture to reach a broader audience, promoting a deeper appreciation of architectural heritage. Additionally, they contribute to the preservation and accumulation of curatorial discourses over time. This essay focuses on a key characteristic of archival architecture exhibitions: their ability to reproduce and preserve architecture beyond its constructed buildings. This essay presents the project Archive Narratives, which aims to construct discourses of modern Peruvian architecture based on curatorial explorations from the documentary material of the Architecture Archive of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru that are exhibited in a virtual gallery. This project explores documentary material from four thematic areas: work, representation systems, creative process and interventions. This premise is presented as a methodology to construct discourses from different points of view based on the dialogue between the archive, the curator and the architect. Architecture exhibitions play a crucial role in the dissemination and understanding of the discipline. The archival material has the potential to broaden the research field on the project and the architect, creating opportunities to construct new and more discourses. Architectural archive-based exhibitions offer the opportunity to rethink and reformulate established narratives, exploring ideas, creative processes and representations that underpin finished works.

Instituciones: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú