Urgent Minor Matters: Re-Activating Archival Documents for Social Housing Futures

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Figure 1 Ralph Erskine’s Arkitektkontor AB established a site office in a former funeral parlor in the middle of the Byker Estate. The site office (white building) has since been converted into flats. Photograph by Heidi Svenningsen Kajita, 2020.

Figure 2 Excerpt from office diary, May 1974, documenting visits to Ralph Erskine’s Arkitektkontor AB's site office in Byker, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. Byker, ArkDes Collection, Stockholm.

Figure 3 Detail of drawing of 94a Raby Street, part of Carville Rd Stage Proposed Flats. Ralph Erskine’s Arkitektkontor AB, August 11, 1976. Byker, ArkDes Collection, Stockholm.

Figure 4 Drawing of 94a Raby Street, part of Carville Rd Stage Proposed Flats. Ralph Erskine’s Arkitektkontor AB, August 11, 1976. Byker, ArkDes Collection, Stockholm.

Figure 5 Front page of transcript of This Island Now. Byker, ArkDes Collection, Stockholm.

Figure 6 Mrs E. Kirsopp, 230 Kirk Street. List of complaints. Byker, RIBA Collections, London.

Figure 7 Drawing for Tenant of Ground Floor Flats 3. Kendal Rise. Ralph Erskine’s Arkitektkontor AB. By courtesy of Per Hederus.

Figure 8 Residents passing a large drawing displayed in the Byker site office window. Photograph by Per Hederus.

Figure 9 Excerpt from Byker Phoenix, issue no. and date unknown: 11. Photograph by Heidi Svenningsen Kajita by courtesy of ArkDes Collection, Stockholm.