What constitutes an archive in architecture? What forms does it
take? What epistemology does it perform? What kind of craft is
archiving? Crafting History provides answers and offers insights on
the ontological granularity of the archive and its relationship
with architecture as a complex enterprise that starts and ends much
beyond the act of building or the life of a creator. In this book
we learn how objects are processed and catalogued, how a
classification scheme is produced, how models and drawings are
preserved, and how born-digital material battles time and
technology obsolescence. We follow the work of conservators,
librarians, cataloguers, digital archivists, museum technicians,
curators, and architects, and we capture archiving in its mundane
and practical course. Based on ethnographic observation at
the Canadian Centre for Architecture and interviews with a range of
practitioners, including Álvaro Siza and Peter Eisenman, Albena
Yaneva traces archiving through the daily work and care of all its
participants, scrutinizing their variable ontology, scale, and
politics. Yaneva addresses the strategies practicing architects
employ to envisage an archive-based future and tells a story about
how architectural collections are crafted so as to form the
epistemological basis of architectural history.
General
| Imprint: |
Cornell University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge |
| Release date: |
November 2020 |
| Firstpublished: |
2022 |
| Authors: |
Albena Yaneva
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
252 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5017-5215-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-5017-5215-4 |
| Barcode: |
9781501752155 |
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