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The Centre for Documentary Architecture (CDA) is an interdisciplinary project that explores buildings as documents and built environments as archives in which history is inscribed. CDA is composed of architects, filmmakers, artists, programmers, historians and theorists who undertake a number of collective and individual research projects in contested areas or historical periods where architecture could be used as a registrar of political relations and transformations.

This website is a digital archive that contains a variety of media, ranging from interviews and material studies to photography and archival research collected by the CDA. As a tool under construction, it is meant both for historians and for the interested public. The archive simultaneously engages with finding new access to the physical materiality of the objects of our analysis — artefacts, buildings, environments — and attempts to chart the web of relations, connections and patterns in which these material objects are nested.

Team

  • Ines Weizman
  • Anna Luise Schubert
  • Vera Heinemann
  • Ortrun Bargholz
  • Katharina Benjamin
  • Moritz Ebeling
  • Wolfram Höhne
  • Olaf Kammler
  • Sonja Kettel
  • Eva-Maria Lisa Körber
  • Lena Lorenz
  • Ana Paula Nitzsche
  • Yael Peri
  • Leon Lukas Plum
  • Markus Schlaffke
  • Jannis Uffrecht
  • Volkmar Umlauft
  • Amelie Wegner
  • René Weiser
  • Robin Weißenborn
  • Reinhold Wust

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Contact

centre@documentary-architecture.org

Supporters

100 Jahre Bauhaus
German Federal Foreign Office
German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
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