Log 22: The Absurd gets serious about the seemingly irrational side of architecture. Guest edited by Michael Meredith of MOS, this special thematic issue identifies the funny, ugly, contradictory, and more fuzzy realms of architecture, disavowing the purported orderliness of disciplinary presumptions to uncloak the implausibility at its core (maybe even its origin) and present new possibilities for experimentation. Sketches, tweets, a book of exorcisms, a comic, and a special DVD are presented alongside critical and provocative essays on hoarding, disaster, failure, and bowlers (as in hats). Log 22 features: Sylvia Lavin on architecture's accommodation of hoarding; Jacques Ranciere on the conundrums of art and life; and Lucia Allais on Superstudio's 'Salvages of Italian Historic Centers,' a 1974 project presented here for the first time in English. Also in the issue: Mark Jarzombek on Bruno Taut's attack of seriousness; David Foster Wallace on Kafka's funniness; Amanda Reeser Lawrence on the self-influence of James Stirling; Caroline O'Donnell on Karl Rosenkranz's aesthetic of ugliness; and K. Michael Hays and Marrikka Trotter on fictions in recent architecture. Plus: a comic by Jimenez Lai; a spectrum of social orderliness by Jeffrey Kipnis; an overlooked Donald Judd project; machines by Francois Roche; tweets from the Bauhaus; a DVD by MOS; and much more.

Log 22

Simon Critchley

Tom McCarthy

Michael Meredith

Jimenez Lai

François Roche

Sylvia Lavin

Mark Jarzombek

K. Michael Hays

Jeffrey Kipnis

Sam Jacob

Amanda Reeser Lawrence

John McMorrough

Lucia Allais

Timothy Hyde

Caroline O'Donnell

Michael Osman

Superstudio

Anyone Corporation

Log 29 [paperback] Cynthia Davidson,UNStudio,Reiser + Umemoto,Sylvia Lavin,MOS,OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen,51N4E,Barkow Leibinger,C+S architects,Sam Jacob,Neil M. Denari Architects,Emmanuel Petit,Preston Scott Cohen,Sarah Whiting,Cynthia Davidson [Aug 21, 2013] … 0983649170

Log 29

Cynthia Davidson

Sarah Whiting

Emmanuel Petit

51N4E

Preston Scott Cohen

UNStudio

Reiser + Umemoto

OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen

Barkow Leibinger

C+S architects

Neil M. Denari Architects

Sets out to crunch the numbers of several centuries of unrealized urbanism, all the way from the ideal Roman city to the great utopian projects of the 20th century. Through plans, sections, charts and scale drawings, 49 cities are observed statistically and presented in an unprecedented comparative study, the result of a research project conducted over several years. Despite the fact that these cities never actually existed in their intended form, this overview of utopian urbanism provides a remarkable insight into our understanding of the contemporary metropolis.

Work Ac: 49 Cities, 2nd Edition.

Michael Webb

Storefront for Art and Architecture

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

Mark Foster Gage

V. Mitch McEwen

David Buege

Hana Gründler

Elisabetta Terragni

Ania Jaworska

Matthew Soules

Pablo Martínez Capdevila

Ours is a landscape of cover versions, copy and paste, rinse and repeat. In this polemical essay, Sam Jacob probes the architectural condition and wonders whether it's all just an attempt to make what's not real look real.

Make it Real: Architecture as Enactment

Strelka Press

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