Pragmatic and cultural aspects of archival material

Some citations extracted from the literature on the archives are used as a pretext to reflect on what could be defined as the characteristics, or even properties, of the material preserved in a construction archive.. The object of the analysis is acts and documents – generated through activities related to the management of a complex of institutional edifices. – to be examined (or evaluated) as functional instruments, both from the context in which they originate and the conservative phase in which they are destined when they are no longer effective