Since 2006, the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative has engaged in numerous shared projects from collected volumes and joint authorship to peer review workshopping and website publishing, alongside conferences, symposia, and public presentations. Operated as a self-funded, non-profit corporation, Aggregate continues to evolve its means and outputs of production within the practical, intellectual, and institutional constraints of collaborative work. This seminar offers younger scholars reflections by several Aggregate directors upon the group’s evolving collaborative efforts in the contexts of collective work, recent architectural history, and the higher education and publishing industries.

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Daniel M. Abramson is Professor of Architectural History at Boston University. Aggregate’s treasurer he also co-edited its 2021 volume Writing Architectural History, has authored several books including Obsolescence, and is currently studying American government centres.

Pamela Karimi is a Professor of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Massachusetts and a founding member of the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative. Karimi’s latest book, Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art & Critical Spatial Practice was published by Stanford University Press in September 2022.

Meredith TenHoor is Professor of Architecture at Pratt Institute and the editor of Aggregate. Current projects include an intellectual biography of the architect Nicole Sonolet, the edited volume Toxics, on the history of deleterious materials in architecture, and a book on food provisioning in twentieth-century France.