Book ID: CBB486870176

Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy (2020)

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Yaneva, Albena (Author)


Cornell University Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 171
Language: English

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.

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Authors & Contributors
Lourenço, Marta C.
Venegas, Cristina
Tyler David Morgenstern
Duarte, Marisa Elena
Rixon, Gordon A.
Kronenfeld, Michael R.
Concepts
Information science
Libraries and archives
Collections
Museums
Information technology
Computers and computing
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
19th century
20th century
Early modern
Places
Canada
United States
Europe
Ottawa
Sweden
France
Institutions
Universidade de Lisboa
University of Toronto
University of Pittsburgh
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Cambridge University
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