Crafting History : : Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy / / Albena Yaneva.

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 enterpris...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Art and Architecture eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
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Physical Description:1 online resource (252 p.) :; 20 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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