Provenance in Architecture
A Dictionary
Published on 26. November 2025
236 pages
978-3-7757-6123-9 (ISBN)
Description
The provenance of artworks is a burning issue in current scholarship and politics. Transpose provenance into architecture and it reveals new and surprising dimensions in the social, material and cultural lives of buildings and architectural artefacts, reframing questions of migration, movement and circulation. Provenance in architecture illuminates the intricate trajectories of fundamentally composite objects from their complex origins to their uncertain destinations.
This dictionary examines architectural provenance across 101 key concepts from "Acquisition" to "Will". The entries provide new ways of writing architectural history, highlighting how architecture moves, is destroyed, survives and is transformed.
Uwe Fleckner is a professor in art history at the University of Hamburg and conducts provenance research as a director of the Research Centre of "Degenerate Art."
Mari Lending is a professor in architectural history and theory at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and directs the international research project "Provenance Projected: Architecture Past and Future in the Era of Circularity."
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Content
Cover
Half Title Page
Title Page
Contents
Architectural provenance A preamble
Acquisition
Actor
Afterlife
Architectural drawing
Archive
Artefact
Attribution
Authentication
Authenticity
Authorship
Bond
Bricolage
Capitalism
Cargo
Catalogue
Celebrity
Circulation
Collecting
Collective memory
Component
Concrete
Construction site
Contract
Copyright
Costs
Counter-monument
Craft
Crisis
Deaccessioning
Demolition
Dereliction
Displacement
Dispossession
Dispute
Doppelgänger
Dust
Element
Exhibition
Expropriation
Extension
Facsimile
Fire
Fragility
Fragment
Framing
Ghosts
Graffiti
Heritage
Image vehicle
Inheritance
Inscription
Labour
Lacuna
Maintenance
Material
Mobility
Model
Monument, toppled
Moveables
Network
Obsolescence
Occupation
Palimpsest
Pasticcio
Patina
Photography
Plaster cast
Political iconography
Postproduction
Precedent
Preservation
Pristine
Privilegio
Provenience
Quarry
Quote
Readymade
Reconstruction
Recycling
Renovation
Reparation
Reproduction
Residents
Restitution
Restoration
Reuse
Ruin
Sourcing
Spolia
Storage
Subtraction
Theft
Thing-right
Transfer
Transformation
Translocation
Type project
Vandalism
War
Weathering
Will
Bibliography
Image credits
Contributors
Colophon
