Provenance
Projected

While provenance traditionally documents the chronological history of objects in circulation, Provenance Projected transposes the eighteenth-century concept from discourses on art, archaeology, and ethnographica into architecture. Provenance is ripe to be rethought on a different scale and site-specifically to explore the history embedded in materials and building components: their source of extraction, production facilities, global transportation networks and the social milieu they were conceived within. Most radically, we are recharging the temporality of the concept: Architectural provenance can be a dynamic phenomenon, even a forward-bound, creative instrument for change, applicable to understanding lost, present, and future potentials of buildings.