Incorporation of new Archives

ARCA promotes the gathering of the collections as opposed to the dispersion of the material, it also preserves them to prevent their destruction.

Conservation and restoration

ARCA controls the conditions under which the documents are kept besides practicing an integral treatment to insure their preservation. This means carrying out preventive restoration and conservation: diagnostics, cleaning, following up the state of the collection and planning the archive and publication systems.

Research

Access to the documents strengthens the research about the architecture of Argentina making it possible to access the genealogy of ideas present in them.

Cataloging

The catalogues simplify access to the documents. Because of this ARCA developed the design of a database specifically for the archival of architectural material from the private sector that complies with the norms ISAD-G of the ICA (International Council of Archives).

Promotion

The conservation work as well as the results of all research carried out on the different collections is presented in congresses and publications.

Congresses
ARCA has participated in the international congresses organized by ICAM in 1998, 2000 and 2002 and with ICASAR in 2000, presenting papers about archiving of architectural material in Argentina. ARCA also participated in national and international meetings about conservation in the years 2000, 2001 and 2002.

Exhibitions
ARCA has organized three exphibitions in FADU and has participated in others by the PROS Foundation, ICI (Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericano) and the Centro Cultural Recoleta of Buenos Aires

Publications
Summa+ and ICAM news, (magazine of the International Confederation of Architectural Museums). In early 2002, published the works of Hirsz Rotzait, publisher: Editorial Infinito .
A book about the work of Alejandro Bustillo, whose collection is part of ARCA, is in the making.