Crafting History - Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy (Hardcover)

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 �lvaro 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
First published:	2022
Authors:	Albena Yaneva
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	252
ISBN-13:	978-1-5017-5182-0
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-5017-5182-4
Barcode:	9781501751820

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