Resumen de Les archives d'architecture entre "trop-plein" et effects de seuil
Architectural archives: between "too full" and threshold effects.
Towards the end of the 20th century, architectural archives benefitted from an unprecedented and strong interest, which led to the creation of specialized associations. Generalized in the developed world, this movement was very appreciable in France, where, in the 1980s, the Institut Français d'Architecture created a specialized archival center. Thirty or forty years later, this dynamic seems to have lost impetus: the available spaces are saturated, the archives to be collected have undergone major changes, the modalities of their handling and thier study have become more complicated, a certain rivalry has developed between collections of architectural archives. There is a veritable threshold effect, which certainly is not appearing for the first time, but which, today, is concentrated on the transitional period of Postmodernism, therefore on the very period that gave rise to the preservation of these archives. Despite the often implicit answers to this deadlock, serious thought about collecting polices remains necessary. One of the new elements in this subject is the recent affirmation by the Archives Nationales of their role in this sphere that up to now, they had left to the Institut Française d'Architecture.
