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WHO WE ARE / WHAT WE DO / ARCHIVE EVENTS EXHIBITIONS MEDIA AGENCY PUBLISHING NEWS PRESS AREA SHOP CAREER CONTACT		Architects today have many means to communicate their design visions. Among these tools the architecture video has over the years acquired more and more importance, and has become today a very widespread tool, one that is influencing ever more effectively development, information and communication processes. iMage ARCHIVE is the multimedia archive devoted to collecting, preserving and advancing architecture videos. Its main objective is to offer an adequate visibility to the most significant audiovisual documents so as to testify past, present and future architectural research and to enhance its circulation in the most appropriate manner. iMage ARCHIVE has been associated with BEYOND MEDIA www.beyondmedia.it, the international festival of architecture and media, ever since its inception in Florence in 1997. BEYOND MEDIA is an internationally recognized event that focuses on the presentation of architecture videos to a wide and specialized audience. Over the years BEYOND MEDIA has established its role as an important occasion to reflect upon the relationships between architecture and its media of communication. Also it offers the possibility to explore audiovisual tools by allowing the convergence of different points of view on the topic. iMage ARCHIVE offers a transverse outlook onto architectural production thanks to the variety of works it collects. It is constantly updated thanks to the continuous monitoring of the most relevant areas of architectural production, in Italy and abroad, and it collects a whole range of documents such as videos, animations, digital models, interviews, multimedia. These documents are all different in nature, some having been produced by the architects themselves, independently or in collaboration with authors or companies specialized in the field of architectural visualization and of representation of contemporary architecture. Besides including the videos produced by world famous architects, the archive also collects works realized by emerging designers or by authors in search for new tools capable of communicating architectural projects. iMage ARCHIVE looks at the existing architectural archives as models; at the same time, it wants to preserve its unique nature which results from its very peculiar history. The very existence and growth of the iMage ARCHIVE are closely related to the pluriennial experience of BEYOND MEDIA and to the daily contacts that iMage maintains with architects and authors for enhancing the knowledge on their activity. iMage ARCHIVE was intentionally created as hybrid in nature, as it doesn't just preserve such precious documents as the architecture videos, but it also works towards their development as effective tools which will facilitate a general awareness among all of the actors involved in the architectural scene. [SCREENINGS >] CONTACTS For information on how to be be part, with your videos, of the iMage ARCHIVE you can contact our offices by phone at +39 055 4684 187 or by email archive@image-web.org.		ITALIANO
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