Hélène Frichot
"Crafting History offers a much-needed analysis of what an archive does, and of what relations it is composed. Yaneva's writing is intelligent and accessible, introducing new methodologies for approaching the archive while telling compelling stories along the way."
Mark Wigley
This is a phenomenal book that can be very inspirational for scholars, young and old. Albena Yaneva offers an opportunity for scholars to see the space of the archive in a new way, and to think also in a radically new way. The archive is commonly thought as a repository of facts, of truths, of evidence meant to limit the imagination of the scholars and to keep them closer to the wisdom of the documents; the archive is imagined as a bunker, disconnected from the world, a space where we can witness the complete suspension of time. Yaneva's book undoes entirely this image of the archive and presents it as a space full of nonhumans, a space of contradictions, of confusions, of multiplicities and accelerations.
Hélène Frichot
Crafting History offers a much-needed analysis of what an archive does, and of what relations it is composed. Yaneva's writing is intelligent and accessible, introducing new methodologies for approaching the archive while telling compelling stories along the way.
Jilly Traganou
Yaneva has written an outstanding work that will be a key reference of future works on architectural archiving, as well as future ethnographies of archiving.
