Title & Author:

Keeping culture : the architecture of storage / editors, Susan Holden, Ashley Paine ; with contributions by Wouter Davidts, Carroll Go-Sam, Susan Holden, Owen Hopkins, Valérie November, Marina Otero Verzier, Ashley Paine, Scott W. Perkins, Deyan Sudjic, Julian Worrall, Albena Yaneva.

Publication:

Amsterdam : Valiz, 2026.
[New York] : Distribution, USA/Canada/Latin America, D.A.P.

Description:

284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Vis-à-vis

Notes:
Studies in art and architecture explore the reciprocal trade between the disciplines of architecture and art -- Back cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The culture of storage / Susan Holden & Ashley Paine -- Culture stores : architectures for collections, research, and preservation / Susan Holden & Ashley Paine -- Seeing storage -- Unpacking the museum : conversations on creating the V&A East Storehouse / Owen Hopkins -- Kabinett of possibilities : archival thinking in the stores of Herzog & de Meuron / Deyan Sudjic -- A question of typology : spatial strategies for long-term futures / Albena Yaneva & Valerie November -- Art, Architecture, City : Dangrove and the temporality of collecting / Susan Holden -- The trouble with Ngurra : paradigms for keeping indigenous culture / Carroll Go-Sam -- Architecture of concealment : display and storage of contemporary art in Flanders / Wouter Davidts -- Archi-depot : space, time, and storage / Julian Worrall -- Collector, protector, anarchist : Chicago's cultural historian, Tim Samuelson / Scott W. Perkins -- Zone of potential insufficiency / Marina Otero Verzier.

Summary:

"Museum and archival collections are often so vast that only a fraction can be shown at any one time. Behind the scenes are millions of stored objects that are rarely, if ever, presented to the public. As collections continue to grow, such warehousing practices become conspicuous and unsustainable, transforming storage from a technical concern to a pressing architectural challenge. In this context visible and visitable storage strategies have gained traction with museums, promising to increase the accessibility of reserve collections while also announcing new forms of institutional transparency and public accountability for the objects in their care. Keeping Culture explores the scope, scale, and significance of contemporary cultural storage facilities, providing new insights into their implications for collecting and conservation, and for the broader understanding of cultural heritage. It also brings the field's current interest in visible and open storage design into dialogue with the spatial evolution and programmatic disruptions that have defined the history of museums, and the architectural experiments that have accompanied the cultural work of keeping things." -- Back cover.

ISBN:

9789493246553 softcover
9493246558 softcover

Subject:

Museum storage facilities.
Museums Collection management.
Museum buildings.
Museum conservation methods.
Musées Réserves.
Musées Gestion des collections.
Musées (Édifices)
Musées Méthodes de conservation.
collections management.
museums (buildings)
ARCHITECTURE / Criticism.

Added entries:

Holden, Susan, 1976- editor.
Paine, Ashley, 1979- editor.
Davidts, Wouter, contributor.
Vis-à-vis (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Holdings:

Location: Library study room new acquisitions 327959
Call No.: 327959
Copy: 1
Status: Available