| dc.description.abstract | In 1925, architect Georg Eliassen took the initiative to establish a collection of drawings, photography
and scale models in response to an increasing frustration among Norwegian architect of not being able
to participate in international architectural exhibitions. The so-called Permanent Collection was founded
on a principle of absolute contemporaneity, making de-acquisition as important as acquisition in the
management of the collection. Nevertheless, the collection kept increasing. By the mid 1930s it included
hundreds of models and innumerable drawings and photos and was seen as nucleus of an entire museum
of Norwegian architecture. This ambition failed, and the material that had been so intensively displayed
in Kiel, Budapest, Helsinki, Berlin, Prague, and Paris, before making its last appearance at the World’s Fair
in New York in 1939, was buried in storage, dispersed, or destroyed. Based on extensive archival research,
this article chronicles a forgotten collection, framing it within a modernist culture of collecting and
exhibiting architecture. | nb_NO |
