The Hennebique Archives: Toward a New Corpus for Contemporary Architectural History

The voluminous archives of the Hennebique engineering firm, which was a pioneer in reinforced concrete construction, provides an example of processing procedures and priorities for architectural records. The completeness and heterogeneous nature of architectural records greatly influence processing time. It is necessary to balance the needs of both historians and archivists when processing records, and it is also necessary to preserve the records not just of significant buildings or architects, but of the ordinary architects, and the non-architects who influenced architectural works, in order to develop a fuller picture of the development of the landscapes in which we live.