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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824084303321

Autore

Yaneva Albena

Titolo

Crafting history : archiving and the quest for architectural legacy / / Albena Yaneva [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-5017-5184-0

1-5017-5215-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Expertise: cultures and technologies of knowledge

Cornell scholarship online

Disciplina

301.01

Soggetti

Architecture - Archival resources

Architectural libraries

Archives - Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

What constitutes an archive in architecture? What forms does it take? What epistemology does it perform? What kind of craft is archiving? This book 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.