Seminar 2 - Wednesday November 4th from 4-6pm

Albena Yaneva speaking on the topic Buildings as Things

Albena Yaneva is a Lecturer in Architectural Studies at the University of Manchester, The Manchester Architecture Research Centre, and holds a doctoral degree in Sociology from Ecole des Mines de Paris. Albena is the author of the books: The Making of a Building: A Pragmatist Approach to Architecture, Oxford: Peter Lang (2009) and Made by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture: An Ethnography of Design, Rotterdam: 010 Publishers (2009), and the guest editor of Understanding Architecture, Accounting Society, 2008 (a special issue of Science Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Science and Technology Studies). Her work has been published in Design and Culture, The Yale Architectural Journal, Museum and Society, The Journal of Material Culture, Social Studies of Science, Public Understanding of Science.

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