Over the last two centuries, architecture schools have produced a diverse range of physical and digital materials, formats and techniques that constitute a veritable transhistorical archaeology of media. The Barcelona School of Architecture Archive has collected over 100,000 registered items since it was created in 1817: drawings, photographs, transcripts, models, audiovisuals and plaster casts by teachers, from Antoni Celles to Rafael Moneo, and the exercises of architecture students such as Antoni Gaudí and Enric Miralles. All are subjects of exchange networks with European and American Schools that suggest far-reaching interpretations for the future.

If changes in archival research are influencing the production of architectural history, they also offer a way to re-witness the past. The paper will address these issues in an attempt to transcend historical boundaries in teaching and explore nonlinear temporalities. How does the notion of architecture differ from those expounded in other periods? Where is the limit between analogue and digital? Do digital techniques function as evidence of new historical narratives?