Building 500 will become the new Archaeology Center at Stanford University. Previously, it was the home of mechanical engineering and related fields and their laboratories. This 'shell' of a building serendipitously presents a site-specific nexus integrating various theoretical/methodological concerns in archaeology: abandonement studies and site-formation processes, reflexive methodology and media documentation, material culture and the archaeology of contemporaneity, and the question of detritus and archaeology as valuing the banal/abject. The correspondence of all of these themes in one appropriate locale will be visually and verbally explored further (follow the links).

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Imaging Materiality of Building 500

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Hints on Getting Started

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Let's get this Forum started! -"'Chris, I have a photo library ready to upload for the project. "

Images: Tim Webmoor

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Posted at Nov 18/2005 02:01PM:
Tim Webmoor: Ashish, perhaps you could upload your excellent images from the release.

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Posted at Dec 09/2005 12:03PM:
Tim Webmoor: Alright guys, intro. now lookiong good. Let's keep moving.

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Posted at Mar 07/2006 04:59PM:
Tim Webmoor: Guys, here is contact@Stanford's Maps + Records Dept. across from Transportation Bldg. where we can get historical maps of buildings, etc.: Olga Raykina (CAD specialist). Also, each dept. has 'space coordinator' who has access to detailed info. under ispace. Finally, check out Stanford Maps