Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy

by Albena Yaneva

Book Overview

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.

We learn how objects are processed and catalogued, how a classification...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501752154
• ISBN13: 9781501752155
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"