- Description
- 1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- "Following the daily routines of collecting and record keeping at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Albena Yaneva tells the story of how the nature of architectural archives reflects the nature of design as a collective endeavor in which archivists, librarians, editors, curators, digital humanists, and conservators all play a role. She also makes an argument about the importance of architectural archive-making as an index of the cultural position of design in contemporary societies"--
- Series Statement
- Expertise: cultures and technologies of knowledge
- Uniform Title
- Crafting history (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Crafting history (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: The Secret Life of Architectural Objects -- Archive Fevers -- Architecture and the "Fever" of Archiving -- A Morning in the Vaults -- Opening the Crates -- Fear of Time, Fear of Insects -- The Plot of Archiving -- The Life of an Old Floppy Disk -- Conclusion: Collections as Sites of Epistemological Anxiety.
- LCCN
- 2020004383
- OCLC
- ssj0002403590
- Author
Yaneva, Albena.
- Title
Crafting history [electronic resource] : archiving and the quest for architectural legacy / Albena Yaneva.
- Imprint
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
- Series
Expertise: cultures and technologies of knowledge
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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