Log 40 assembles a wide-ranging collection of thoughtful essays on some of the most urgent questions and debates in architecture today, bringing them into dialogue with those of architecture s recent past. The legacy and current status of architectural images are considered from radically different vantages, in Brett Steele s anecdotal discourse on Zaha Hadid s 1983 painting The World (89 Degrees), John May s exacting dissection of architecture after imaging, and Hana Gründler s exploration of the ethical implications of drawing borderlines. The issue features commentary by two contemporary architects on contemporary buildings: V. Mitch McEwen on David Adjaye s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, and Elisabetta Terragni on OMA s Fondazione Prada in Milan. Other highlights include an excerpt from Noah s Ark, the new collection of Hubert Damisch s singular writings on architecture; a lively response by Mark Foster Gage to Michael Meredith s recent Log essay on indifference; and a sampling of new domestic objects designed by architects. In this issue: Trisha Brown travels toward a wall, David Buege remembers Christopher Risher Jr., Hubert Damisch floats a theory of architecture, Cynthia Davidson reads Keith Krumwiede s Atlas, Cynthia Deng &amp; Elif Erez chase a tin can through Mexico City, Mark Foster Gage raises an objection to indifference, Hana Gründler limns the borders of ethics, Pablo Martínez Capdevila arbitrates the Radicals vs. Tendenza, John May processes images in real time, V. Mitch McEwen visits David Adjaye s NMAAHC, Matthew Soules appraises transhumanist vacancy, Brett Steele steps into Zaha Hadid s World, and Elisabetta Terragni reflects on the Fondazione Prada. Plus: Alfini, Besler &amp; Sons, Ania Jaworska, Jimenez Lai/Bureau Spectacular, MOS, Norman Kelley, Sam Jacob Studio, Thing Thing, and their wares. And observations on public art and preservation in Brooklyn . . .

Log 40

Trisha Brown

Hubert Damisch

JOHN MAY

Brett Steele

Norman Kelley

Jimenez Lai

Mark Foster Gage

Sam Jacob

V. Mitch McEwen

David Buege

Hana Gründler

Elisabetta Terragni

Ania Jaworska

Matthew Soules

Pablo Martínez Capdevila

Anyone Corporation

"The AA Book: Projects Review 2009" contains texts, reviews, graphics, photographs and, above all else, projects selected from across the entire school.

AA Book 2009: Projects Review by Brett Steele (2009-08-01)

Architectural Association Publ

How might an architect design a building whose context hasn't yet been determined? Digital Media City is a new urban quarter in Seoul, zoned to grow up between the airport and the city center. But it's still on the drawing board: the site for the Barkow Leibinger project documented here was a lone parcel of land diagonally across from a new park. Given their uncertainty about neighboring structures, Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger equipped theirs with the ability to kaleidoscopically reflect its surroundings--whatever they turn out to be--in a dimensional, folded glass facade. Reflect documents the process of this building's design and construction through texts, photographs and video stills. Work was completed in late 2006; the result is a versatile face in the midst of facelessness.

Reflect: Barkow Leibinger Architects Building in the Digital Media City, Seoul, Korea

Reference

Barry Bergdoll

Frank Barkow

Regine Leibinger

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Hatje Cantz

The works presented in this volume by American/German architectural team Barkow Leibinger range from prototypes and installations to buildings such as the recently completed Tour Total, in which form and space evolve by means of the handling of material and new technologies and tools.

Barkow Leibinger

Arts & Photography

FOSTER, HAL

Carson Chan

Sarah Whiting

Iwan Baan

Architecture

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