This journal of Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City takes a long look at the status of the metacritique in architecture today with essays by Catherine Ingraham, Reinhold Martin, Georges Teyssot, Pier Vittorio Aureli, John Rajchman, Keller Easterling and more. Includes appraisals of theory and history, politics and philosophy as related to architectural thinking and discourse, and of work by Arata Isozaki and Anselm Kiefer.

Log 11

Pier Vittorio Aureli

Susan Buck-Morss

Reinhold Martin

Keller Easterling

John Rajchman

Georges Teyssot

Catherine Ingraham

Paul Hegarty

Ana Maria Leon

Marco Belpoliti

Arts & Photography

Anyone Corporation

Log 27

Hajime Yatsuka

Lebbeus Woods

François Roche

Emmanuel Petit

Tom Daniell

Mark, Morris

Timothy Hyde

Marc Angélil

Charting the rise of asceticism in early Christianity and its institutionalisation with the medieval monasteries, Pier Vittorio Aureli examines how the basic unit of the reclusive life - the monk's cell - becomes the foundation of private property. And from there, he argues, it all starts to go wrong.

Less is Enough: On Architecture and Asceticism

History & Criticism

Strelka Press

In the 15th anniversary issue of Log, number 44, architects representing diverse perspectives each question, in different ways, the place of architecture and architectural discourse in the world today. As 2018 Venice Biennale Golden Lion recipient Kenneth Frampton asks, What are architects for in a destitute time? Similarly, in Zack Saunders s response to the exhibition digitaldisobediences, François Roche wonders, for posthuman, postqueers, postdummies . . . what does it mean to be an architect? In this issue, Rafael Moneo searches for a new historical paradigm no longer centered on modernism; Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto evaluate the forces that shape their architectural project; Pier Vittorio Aureli offers a comprehensive history of the way the grid has been used to organize the socioeconomics of cities; Michelle Chang proposes vagueness as a critical position and source of creativity; and Michael Meredith curates 44 low-resolution houses. George Baird and xx voto respond to Log 42: Disorienting Phenomenology and ANY 4: Architecture and the Feminine, respectively. Renee Kemp-Rotan and Ludovico Centis evaluate monuments to the complicated American histories of racial injustice and nuclear weapons development. Alicia Imperiale and Christophe Van Gerrewey explore works by Luigi Moretti and OMA. Log 44 also takes stock of the World Trade Center site 15 years after the competition to rebuild Ground Zero in an interview with Daniel Libeskind and an analysis by Fred Bernstein.

Log 44

Christophe Van Gerrewey

Michael Meredith

Luis Fernández-Galiano

Daisy Ames

George Baird

Fred Bernstein

Ludovico Centis

Michelle Chang

Alicia Imperiale

Renee Kemp-Rotan

Rafael Moneo

Jesse Reiser

Zack Saunders

xx voto

Douglas Hartig

Log 59

Peter Eisenman

Sanford Kwinter

Valerio Olgiati

David Chalmers

Katharine Hayhoe

Elisa Iturbe

Sylvia Lavin

Patrik Schumacher

K. Michael Hays

Emanuele Coccia

Caroline Levine

Amale Andraos

Preston Scott Cohen

Andrew Holder

Sean Canty

Anna Neimark

Milton S.F. Curry

Jaffer Kolb

Phyllis Lambert

Meejin Yoon

Architecture

Neoliberalism as a wealth redistribution imperative has made property ownership impossible or unprofitable for much of society. Whether in the form of mortgages or rent, we are consigned to living in conditions of perpetual debt.

Real Estates: Life Without Debt explores the moral, political and economic ramifications of property and ownership in neoliberal debt economies, and asks what role the architect might play in addressing widening social and spatial inequality in the built environment.

Essays by:
Pier Vittorio Aureli, Neil Brenner, Mark Campbell, Mario Carpo, Keller Easterling, Ross Exo Adams, Peer Illner, Sam Jacob, Roberta Marcaccio, Jack Self, Brett Steele, Urban-Think Tank, Wouter Vanstiphout, Eyal Weizman, Finn Williams

Real Estates: Life without Debt

Mark Campbell

Neil Brenner

Bedford Press

Features essays by the architectural historian Pier Vittorio Aureli on Ludwig Hilberseimer, the editor Pamela Johnston on the birds and the bees, the fashion historian Caroline Evans on models and mannequins, the landscape historian Alessandra Ponte on the idea of the north and scholar Adrian Forty in conversation with architect John Winter.

AA Files 63 (63)

Adrian Forty

John Winter

CAROLINE EVANS

Alessandra Ponte

Architectural Association Publications

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