Conclusion

This chapter brings together a number of moves under different collectors that redefine an archive as a heterogeneous and relational aggregate that captures the distributed epistemic nature of an architectural oeuvre. It outlines archival ways of knowing that suggest how architecture can be grasped as a versatile addition of built forms. It also examines a composite understanding of architecture which causes a rethinking of what collections do to history, to architectural knowledge and its institutions. The chapter emphasizes how archiving discovers a history of architectural forms that unfolds as a diagram of active forces to challenge and reactualize the distributed ontological boundaries of buildings. It describes archiving as a semantic machine that continually evolves and develops possible futures for architecture.