Albena Yaneva
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Albena Yaneva is an architectural theorist whose research crosses the boundaries of science studies, cognitive anthropology, architectural theory, and political philosophy. She is a Full Professor at the Politecnico di Torino and Adjunct Professor at GSAPP Columbia University. Yaneva is the author of eight books that explore the current conditions of architectural practice and the political outreach of design. Her most recent book related to provenance is Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy (Cornell University Press, 2020).
She has held the prestigious Lise Meitner Visiting Chair in Architecture at the University of Lund, Sweden as well as Visiting Professorships at Princeton School of Architecture and Parsons. She has delivered more than 200 invited lectures and keynote addresses at major conferences. Her work is translated in nine different languages. She is the recipient of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) President’s award for outstanding research. Yaneva holds a DEA from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and a PhD from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris where she worked alongside Bruno Latour.