Georges Teyssot unravels J. Mayer H.'s sinuous Metropol Parasol project in Seville; Allan Weiss meditates on the garden at Ryoan-ji; Eric Owen Moss pays homage to Raimund Abraham; Tom Weaver reads poetry and the tedious prose of Leon Krier's Poundbury; Wes Jones reconsiders architecture as a game; Thomas de Monchaux writes on ''Rising Currents'' and the unexceptional reconstruction of Downtown Manhattan; plus observations on orphic Modernism in the forests of Asuncion, the flatness of Herzog &amp; de Meuron's sets for ''Attila,'' a portfolio from the Hague, and more.

Log 19

François Roche

Allen S. Weiss

Eric Owen Moss

Ross, Adams

Georges Teyssot

Christopher Pierce

Thomas De Monchaux

Wes Jones

Craig Hodgetts

Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

Petra Ceferin

Anyone Corporation

Let them eat cultural capital! On trolling and taboo, TERFs and trans desire. A missing brother, an expired visa. Hollywood longs for the Eighties. Design longs for the Seventies. Fiction by Christine Smallwood and Thomas Bolt.

n+1 Issue 30: Motherland

Christine Smallwood

A.S. Hamrah

Dawn Lundy Martin

Nikhil Pal Singh

Gabriel Winant

Dayna Tortorici

Aziz Rana

Nausicaa Renner

Thomas Bolt

Andrea Long Chu

Nicolás Medina Mora

Thuy Linh Tu

Justin E. H. Smith

n+1 Foundation

Slow House

Holt & Company, Henry

Through essays, conversations, and reviews, the architects, artists, journalists, and theorists gathered in Log 52 interrogate architecture’s role in a world of social, virological, environmental, and paradigmatic change. As David Adjaye says in a conversation with curator Thelma Golden and artist Rick Lowe about Black social practice, the work to be done today “is a planetary project that’s about understanding a world filled with a multitude of peoples and perspectives.” The multiple perspectives in Log 52 include: Vickii Howell, Joycelyn Davis, Darron Patterson, and Joe Womack on the past, present, and future of Africatown in Mobile, Alabama; Deborah Gans on diverse and resilient communities in New Orleans; and Charles L. Davis II on the exhibition “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America.” Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz remember the late Michael Sorkin and his prescient warnings about the neoliberal city; Matthew Soules looks at housing as a financial asset of global capitalism; and Patrick Templeton evaluates Thomas Heatherwick’s spectacle urbanism. In a series of book and exhibition reviews, Kurt W. Forster travels from the Gothic to the digital in Lars Spuybroek’s Grace and Gravity; Kyle Miller finds unlikely resonances among architects in David Erdman’s Introducing; Thomas de Monchaux follows constructive lines in Studio Ames’s “Linee Occulte”; and Whitney Moon sees double in BlairBalliet’s “No More Room.” In addition, Cynthia Davidson interviews Emilio Ambasz, often called the father of green architecture, and Lindy Roy and Leah Kelly study our nervous system’s mapping capacities. Log 52 concludes with Cosmodality, the third guest-edited nature section, which features essays by Sanford Kwinter on VR, Ed Keller on cosmopolitics, and a discussion between guest editor Gökhan Kodalak and philosopher Elizabeth Grosz.

Log 52

Sanford Kwinter

Kyle Miller

Gökhan Kodalak

Patrick Templeton

Kurt W. Forster

Charles L. Davis II

Fonna Forman

Teddy Cruz

Deborah Gans

David Adjaye

Vickii Howell

Whitney Moon

Lindy Roy

Ed Keller

From a bridge to blockchain, Amazonian urbanism to artificial intelligence, Log 55 recognizes the vast concerns of architecture today. This 176-page open issue, which includes a 16-page color insert, compiles essays, building and exhibition reviews, and remarks by 25 architects, theorists, and artists from around the world. In Berlin, Tim Altenhof critiques the newly rebuilt Humboldt Forum; in Los Angeles, Victor J. Jones reviews Michael Maltzan’s Ribbon of Light Viaduct; in New York, Cynthia Davidson visits the late Virgil Abloh’s “social sculpture,” and Thomas de Monchaux views “Anthony Ames Fifty Paintings”; in Quito, Ana María Durán Calisto and Sanford Kwinter draw inspiration from Indigenous territorial intelligence; in Rotterdam, Christophe Van Gerrewey reflects on MVRDV’s Boijmans Depot; in Taipei, Kwang-Yu King compares two new cultural venues by OMA and RUR; and in Tokyo, Jan Vranoský pens a postmortem for Kisho Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower. Matthew Allen looks to computer science for a way out of the theory-practice divide; Simone Brott considers the ways NFTs will change architectural practice; Karel Klein draws parallels between memory and AI; and Marija Marič warns against digitized real estate fractions.\nIn addition, a special section guest edited by Francesco Marullo is devoted to Notes on the Desert. The section, which raises issues of climate change and the extraction economy, includes essays by architect Nathan Friedman on the US-Mexico border, artist Kim Stringfellow on jackrabbit homesteads, feminist scholar Traci Brynne Voyles on the 49ers, and architect Lydia Xynogala speaking for a desert toad; photo essays by the Center for Land Use Interpretation on nuclear tombs and by photographer Susan Lipper on desert utopia; as well as an interview with photographer Richard Misrach on his Cantos series.

Log 55

Matthew Allen

Christophe Van Gerrewey

Francesco Marullo

Ludovico Centis

Tim Altenhof

Simone Brott

Ana María Durán Calisto

Victor J. Jones

Kwang-Yu King

Karel Klein

Marija Marić

Peter Olshavsky

Jan Vranosky

Nathan Friedman

Susan Lipper

Richard Misrach

Kim Stringfellow

Traci Brynne Voyles

Lydia Xynogala

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