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Edition 1
2020
  1. Patrick Lynch
  2. Tony Fretton
  3. Assemble
  4. Zoë Berman
  5. Ellis Woodman
  6. Alisha Morenike Fisher
  7. Alpa Depani
  8. Níall McLaughlin
            i) ‘Losing Myself’
            ii) ‘Shem and Shaun’
            iii) ‘The Church Incarnate’

Edition 2
2021
  1. Biba Dow and Alun Jones
  2. Mark Pimlott
  3. Philip Christou
  4. Nana Biamah-Ofosu
  5. Finn Williams
  6. Neal Shasore
  7. Ros Diamond
  8. Kirsty Badenoch   

Edition 3
2025
  1. Adam Nathaniel Furman
  2. Asif Khan
  3. Building on the Built
  4. David Knight and Cristina Monteiro
  5. Diana Ibáñez López
  6. Edwin Heathcote
  7. Manijeh Verghese
  8. Roz Barr
  9. Studio naama






Arch-ive         —
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Arch-ive investigates the books that have been influential to leading urban practitioners. It aims to showcase architects’ relationship with books and the way in which they utilise, interrogate and display architectural resources.


Mark

ARCH-IVE : Edition 3

 






(Folly Arch-ive, 2025)
London - UK



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Arch-ive is a platform investigating the libraries of urban practitioners and the way in which they use, collect and display books and other references. It began as an online platform, always with an idea in mind to publish a book. Edition 3 has evolved to contain 9 interviews, 3 essays, an extensive bibliography and a series of photographs, presented in an 'archival' folder. The format is an attempt to promote the joy of collecting, but also of drawing together (correlating) references. During interviews, guests have often commented on the constellation of references that form as they browse their shelves, looking for lost, migratory or unfound books. Our aim is that the slackness of the folder allows you to add and subtract as you see fit; to delve deeper into a series of interviews and essays that touch on ideas of what it means to collect. The essays build upon these ideas, delving into the role of the archive in various manners; Rosie Ellison-Balaam interrogates the various archives we possess, situated across various platforms; Loretta Bosence calls for a builder's archive, to ensure traditional methods of building are not lost; and Krish Nathaniel discusses the importance of archival research and footage in artistic practice. Ultimately, these essays present ideas on why archives are useful and prompt ideas for their criticality moving forward.

The process of creating this book has been slow. Although not always deliberately, the gentle collecting of information has presented opportunities to revisit guests, perhaps conducting a second part to the interview, or capturing additional photographs. This has allowed the development of a network, similar to the constellation that many practitioners discuss about finding within their own library and practice. As books pile up on your desk, or online tabs gather, Edition 3 looks to distil how references amalgamate, as Mark Pimlott poignantly remarked in his Edition 2 interview, "books can become a landscape as well as an environment." As the internet proliferates, it feels poignant to produce a book that presents printed resources back to the viewer, as our guests so generously shared with us. A book about books presenting curated and digestible fragments of practitioners' larger libraries. Key books and elements that have been significant to their practice and life.  






















All photography by Tim Lucas unless otherwise stated.
Mark

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