ENAC Seminar Series by A. Yaneva
Event details
| Date | 28.04.2021 |
| Hour | 10:30 › 11:15 |
| Speaker | Albena Yaneva |
| Location | Online |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
10:30 – 11:15 – Prof. A. Yaneva
Professor of Architectural Theory at University of Manchester, UK
The Digital Turn and the New Practices of Architectural Archivization
The “digital turn” in architecture in the 1990s gradually led to an “archival turn”, prompting practitioners to reflect on the techniques of archivization, both traditional and novel. At the same time, a flurry of concurrent developments in the social sciences and the arts brought archives to the fore of scholarly limelight: the “archival fever” in philosophy (Derrida, 1996), the emergence of the trend of “archival ethnography” in anthropology (Sahlins, 1992) and the “empirical turn” in archival science (The American Archivist, 1996: 59/2). All these developments point toward the importance to study archives as practice, and prompt us to ask: What constitutes an archive in architecture today? What epistemology does it perform? What kind of craft is archiving and how does it relate to design? Addressing these questions, the lecture offers insights into the practices of archivization. It scrutinizes the daily work of digital and paper archivists, based on ethnographic material from the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal, a leading archival institution, and interviews with a range of practitioners around the world. Unravelling the multiple epistemic dimensions of archiving allows us to question some well-established myths of creativity and authorship in architecture. It opens avenues for exploring the new technologies of archivization and their pivotal impact on architectural practice today.
Short bio:
Albena Yaneva is Professor of Architectural Theory at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research is intrinsically transdisciplinary and crosses the boundaries of architectural theory, science and technology studies, cognitive anthropology and political philosophy. She has been Visiting Professor at Princeton School of Architecture (2013), Parsons, New School (2015) and Politecnico di Turino (2018), and held the prestigious Lise Meitner Visiting Chair in Architecture at the University of Lund, Sweden (2017-2019). Yaneva is the author of several books: The Making of a Building (Peter Lang 2009), Made by the OMA: An Ethnography of Design (010 Publishers 2009), Mapping Controversies in Architecture (Routledge 2012), Five Ways to Make Architecture Political. An Introduction to the Politics of Design Practice (Bloomsbury 2017), Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy (Cornell University Press 2020) and The New Architecture of Science: Learning from Graphene (World Scientific Publishing 2020), co-authored with Nobel Laureate in Physics Sir Kostya S. Novoselov. Her work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, Polish, Turkish and Japanese. Yaneva is the recipient of the RIBA President’s Award for Outstanding University-located Research 2010.
Professor of Architectural Theory at University of Manchester, UK
The Digital Turn and the New Practices of Architectural Archivization
The “digital turn” in architecture in the 1990s gradually led to an “archival turn”, prompting practitioners to reflect on the techniques of archivization, both traditional and novel. At the same time, a flurry of concurrent developments in the social sciences and the arts brought archives to the fore of scholarly limelight: the “archival fever” in philosophy (Derrida, 1996), the emergence of the trend of “archival ethnography” in anthropology (Sahlins, 1992) and the “empirical turn” in archival science (The American Archivist, 1996: 59/2). All these developments point toward the importance to study archives as practice, and prompt us to ask: What constitutes an archive in architecture today? What epistemology does it perform? What kind of craft is archiving and how does it relate to design? Addressing these questions, the lecture offers insights into the practices of archivization. It scrutinizes the daily work of digital and paper archivists, based on ethnographic material from the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal, a leading archival institution, and interviews with a range of practitioners around the world. Unravelling the multiple epistemic dimensions of archiving allows us to question some well-established myths of creativity and authorship in architecture. It opens avenues for exploring the new technologies of archivization and their pivotal impact on architectural practice today.
Short bio:
Albena Yaneva is Professor of Architectural Theory at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research is intrinsically transdisciplinary and crosses the boundaries of architectural theory, science and technology studies, cognitive anthropology and political philosophy. She has been Visiting Professor at Princeton School of Architecture (2013), Parsons, New School (2015) and Politecnico di Turino (2018), and held the prestigious Lise Meitner Visiting Chair in Architecture at the University of Lund, Sweden (2017-2019). Yaneva is the author of several books: The Making of a Building (Peter Lang 2009), Made by the OMA: An Ethnography of Design (010 Publishers 2009), Mapping Controversies in Architecture (Routledge 2012), Five Ways to Make Architecture Political. An Introduction to the Politics of Design Practice (Bloomsbury 2017), Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy (Cornell University Press 2020) and The New Architecture of Science: Learning from Graphene (World Scientific Publishing 2020), co-authored with Nobel Laureate in Physics Sir Kostya S. Novoselov. Her work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, Polish, Turkish and Japanese. Yaneva is the recipient of the RIBA President’s Award for Outstanding University-located Research 2010.
Practical information
- General public
- Invitation required
- This event is internal
Organizer
- ENAC
Contact
- Cristina Perez