The exhibition The Other Architect was conceived as an open archive and research centre where visitors were invited to sit down at tables in the main galleries to read a selection of archival documents. Each table represented one of 23 case studies - an architect collective that engaged in experimentation, investigation, multidisciplinary research, and collaboration outside of traditional architectural practice. The exhibition primarily focused on the methods and processes that make up a given research project - correspondence, faxes, budgets, meeting notes, memos, posters, organizational diagrams, book maquettes, itineraries, and photographs.
As a researcher for the exhibition, I mined boxes of archival material in the CCA collections for several of the case studies. Among them were Stanford Anderson’s Streets project and the Binghamton, NY residential surveys in the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS) archive; a conference series organized by Cynthia Davidson in the ANY Corporation archive; and the AA/AD/Polyark mobile media library and Lightweight Enclosure Unit material in the Cedric Price archive. I charted the ad-hoc appearances of Italian collective Global Tools on the pages of architectural magazines and surfed the web archives of the Center for Urban Pedagogy.
