How do architecture and the record – whether archives, media, or technologies of capture – shape one another? This symposium positions architecture as a dynamic register of social, political, and material conditions, while also examining how practices of recording – from historical documentation to contemporary data infrastructures – transform the ways we see, interpret, and project architecture. These reciprocal lenses illuminate how current research is expanding what counts as architectural knowledge, and point toward how architectural research might navigate and define its role within a rapidly shifting technological and political landscape.

Keynote speakers:
Caitlin Blanchfield (Cornell University)
Menna Agha (Carleton University)
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (Barnard College, Columbia University)

Featuring PhD student lightning talks in conversation with each keynote.

Co-sponsors:
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Planning and Architecture Research Group (P+ARG)
Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS)
African Studies Center
Africa Alliance at Taubman College
Department of Anthropology

For further information and a full schedule, visit www.archrecord.info

This event is generously supported by the Colin Clipson Endowment Fund and the Taubman College Annual Fund.