Log 13/14, a special double issue, examines the events and aftershocks of 1968 via the subsequent development of architectural and cultural movements over two generations. The 27 entries include: a reassessment of the collapse of the XIVth Triennale in Milan; renascent forms of Beaux-Arts planning in Paris; the semi-mythic origins of contemporary Dubai; NASA's attempt to design the perfect space suit; and the political potential of the building envelope today. Log also revisits seminal statements from Paul Virilio and Yona Friedman on the nature of the 1968 protests in Paris. Both a retrospective and a critique of past and present-day radical architectural and cultural paradigms, Log 13/14 includes essays and texts by: Jean-Louis Cohen; Peter Eisenman; Sylvia Lavin; Markus Miessen; Paola Nicolin; John David Rhodes; Lukasz Stanek; Robert Venturi; Anthony Vidler; and Alejandro Zaera-Polo among others.

Log 13/14

Peter Eisenman

Paul Virilio

Mark C. Taylor

Jean-Louis Cohen

Anthony Vidler

Yona Friedman

Sylvia Lavin

Bernard Tschumi

Alejandro Zaera-Polo

Anyone Corporation

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

Mark Jarzombek

K. Michael Hays

Jeffrey Kipnis

Sam Jacob

Amanda Reeser Lawrence

John McMorrough

Lucia Allais

Timothy Hyde

Caroline O'Donnell

Michael Osman

Superstudio

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

Log 37: cataLog (Spring/Summer 2016) takes readers inside The Architectural Imagination, the exhibition curated by Log editor Cynthia Davidson and architect Monica Ponce de Leon for the United States Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. This special 240-page color issue of Log features 12 new speculative projects designed for four sites in Detroit by visionary American architectural teams. The cataLog also presents writing by the curators, an interview with Detroit planning director Maurice Cox, and essays exploring Detroit's past and present, as well as the role of imagination in architecture, by critics, theorists, and historians.

Log 37: The Architectural Imagination cataLog

Todd Gannon

Mónica Ponce de León

Greg Lynn FORM

Preston Scott Cohen Inc.

Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects

SAA/Stan Allen Architect

Zago Architecture

Pita & Bloom

A(n) Office

Marshall Brown Projects

As the world reckons with the compounding crises of a pandemic, racial unrest, a recession, and climate change, Log 49 compiles essays, interviews, observations, and manifestos by 29 authors in an effort to make sense of architecture, the city, and nature in the midst of turmoil. This 196-page issue includes a special section, The Return of Nature, guest edited by architectural philosophers Gokhan Kodalak and Sanford Kwinter, who write in their introduction, The world is on fire, and we are the fire. . . . The time has come for a reboot. They, along with philosophers Muriel Combes and Erin Manning and architects Jenny E. Sabin and Peter Trummer, offer concepts and methods toward that reboot. 
Aspects of nature permeate the entire issue. Historian Sylvia Lavin explores architects depictions and use of trees in four essays seeded throughout the issue and philosopher Jacques Rancière discusses the aesthetic regime of 18th-century landscape, while architect Sasa Zivkovic unravels the structural potential of unusable trees and Erin and Ian Besler produce an interactive pop-up postcard for practicing tree pruning. Architects Neeraj Bhatia and Emmett Zeifman each rethink the idea of collective form, Elena Manferdini and Christina Griggs see new possibilities in color, and Luke Studebaker digs deep into the AMO/Rem Koolhaas exhibition Countryside, The Future. In response to the COVID-19 quarantine, philosopher Emanuele Coccia calls for a domestic revolution, Henryetta Duerschlag learns to teach photography via Zoom, and architecture students observe New York City in lockdown from their windows. And in a recollection that is broadly relevant today, when the ground seems to be shifting beneath our feet, historian Nakatani Norihito recounts how when viewing the devastation wrought by the 3/11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, he realized that without land, architecture and architecture history are meaningless.

Log 49

Sanford Kwinter

Gökhan Kodalak

Matthew Mullane

Luke Studebaker

Neeraj Bhatia

Frank Burridge

Emanuele Coccia

Henryetta Duerschlag

Elena Manferdini

Emmett Zeifman

Sasa Zivkovic

Muriel Combes

Erin Manning

Jenny E. Sabin

Peter Trummer

Conceived for new art forms of the twenty-first century, Bernard Tschumi's Le Fresnoy, the National Studio for Contemporary Arts in Tourcoing, France, is part experimental art laboratory, part multimedia production center, part school, part cinema and exhibition and performance space. This highly celebrated building defies categorization, encouraging crossovers between architectural programs and art forms. A huge, technologically advanced roof covers both existing and recent construction, housing the renovated spaces of a former entertainment complex built in the 1920s. In Tschumi's remarkable building, the "in between" or residual spaces located between the existing tiled roofs and the new, hovering steel structure punctuated by glass "clouds" becomes a place where artists can take cover. Much as Tschumi invented a new concept of urban park with his Parc de la Villette in Paris, he brings to Le Fresnoy an innovative concept about the spaces generated by collisions between forms, programs, and the varied systems of contemporary culture. A group of essays by authors including Sylviane Agacinski, Alain Guiheux, Alan Fleischer, and Sylvia Lavin, among others, provides a theoretical and historical context. Extensive photographs and illustrations document the design, construction, and completion of this most polemical of new buildings.

Tschumi Le Fresnoy: Architecture In/Between

Arts & Photography

Joseph Abram

Sylvaine Agacinski

Veronique Descharrieres

Alain Fleischer

Alain Guiheux

Alain Pelissier

Dominique Rouillard

Architecture

The Monacelli Press

Log 59

Pier Vittorio Aureli

Valerio Olgiati

David Chalmers

Katharine Hayhoe

Elisa Iturbe

Patrik Schumacher

Caroline Levine

Amale Andraos

Andrew Holder

Sean Canty

Anna Neimark

Milton S.F. Curry

Jaffer Kolb

Phyllis Lambert

Meejin Yoon

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