Proceedings of the International Congress on Architectural Archives: Professional Experiences in a Cultural Diversity

Abstract

[Excerpt] Introduction: This edition gathers the texts of the communications presented at the International Congress in Architectural Archives "Professional Experiences in a Cultural Diversity" that took place in Braga, Portugal, from the 25th to the 27th September 2019. This Congress was a great opportunity to share and debate about the practices of the archival community that works with the archives of architecture and other activities in the "built environments". A hundred archivists, architects and conservatives attended ICAA2019. They came from 17 countries. The 27 communications (selected from 56 proposals) and nine posters were enriched with three excellent guests who introduced interesting points of view and challenges: Mirko Zardini, Antonello Allici and André Tavares. The aim of this edition is to continue the debate about the issues that are relevant to the archival community, allowing everyone to return to the speakers' words and to those who were not present to be aware of the contents of the meeting, the questions raised and the shared experiences, enabling them to join this debate. [...]