The lecture explores a three-year research project carried out by Tim Anstey and Mari Lending at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, in collaboration with Master’s students in Architecture, PhD candidates and international institutions including the Guttormgaard Archive in Norway, the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg the Warburg Institute and the Architectural Association in London. The project investigated the centrality of architecture for Aby Warburg’s conception of historical enquiry and of research dissemination and provides detailed accounts of the various buildings, exhibitions and interiors that Warburg and his followers commissioned, inhabited and adapted over a thirty year period. The investigative method chosen combined close archival work with analyses made through architectural drawings and models and has resulted in a series of exhibitions that latest of which, Warburg Models: The Architecture of the Itinerant Archive opens at the Architectural Association on 19^th January.

Tim Anstey is Chair of the PhD Program at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. His coedited publications include Architecture and Authorship (2008), Images of Egypt (2018), and Warburg Models: Buildings as Bilderfahrzeuge (2023), and his curated exhibitions include “Images of Egypt” (Oslo Museum of Cultural History, 2018), “Warburg Models: Buildings as Bilderfahrzeuge” (Warburg-Haus, Hamburg, 2023), and “Warburg Models: The Architecture of the Intinerant Archive” (Architectural Association, London, 2024). His new book Things That Move: A Hinterland in Architectural History (MIT Press, Spring 2024) develops a completely original exploration of architecture as concerned with movement and memory, to argue that architecture is not about solidity but about flux; and about transportation in time and place.