Crafting History

Albena Yaneva

Description

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 Alvaro 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.

Sujets

• Architectural theory
• Library
• Architecture

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 novembre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501751837
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 14 Mo

Extrait

CRAFTING HISTORY

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CRAFTING HISTORY Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy

AlbeNa YaNeVa

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS ITHACA AND LONDON

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First published 2020 by Cornell University Press

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: Yaneva, Albena, author. Title: Crafting history : archiving and the quest for architectural legacy /  Albena Yaneva. Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020. |  Series: Expertise: cultures and technologies of knowledge | Includes bibliographical  references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020004383 (print) | LCCN 2020004384 (ebook) |  ISBN 9781501751820 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501752155 (paperback) |  ISBN 9781501751837 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501751844 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Anthropology—Philosophy. | Architecture—Philosophy. |  Architecture and anthropology. | Archives—Philosophy. | Material culture—  Social aspects. | Design—Social aspects. | Knowledge, Sociology of. |  Information organization—Social aspects. Classification: LCC GN33 .Y29 2020 (print) | LCC GN33 (ebook) |  DDC 301.01—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020004383 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020004384

All photographs are by the author.

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Contents

Introduction: The Secret Life of Architectural Objects

1.  Archive Fevers 2.  Architecture and the “Fever” of Archiving 3.  A Morning in the Vaults 4.  Opening the Crates 5.  Politics of Care 6.  The Plot of Archiving 7.  The Life of an Old Floppy Disk

Conclusion: Collections as Sites of Epistemological Reshuffle

Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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