04/30/2026
Join us in room 206 on May 6th at 4 pm for, Archival Lives of Architecture, organized by Matthew Allen. Kai Wang and Ying Wang, from Tongji University examine how architectural archives are being actively constructed and re-interpreted in contemporary China. Through case studies of institutional collections and state-owned design institutes, the talks position the archive not as a passive repository but as a site of reading, curation, teaching, and design cognition. Together, they open a discussion on historiography, authorship, and the production of architectural knowledge across institutional contexts.