Like a ship captain's logbook, Log records observations of one's surroundings, in particular of movements in architecture and contemporary culture. Log fills the void in American architectural publishing that has existed since the closing of ANY and the journal Assemblage by providing a venue for criticism and a discussion of contemporary work and ideas. Edited by Cynthia Davidson (editor of ANY), Log includes articles by established scholars and critics as well as the work of emerging writers. Log 2 features essays by Bernard Khoury, Phyllis Lambert, Julie Rose, and Sarah Whiting, reflecting the diversity of the cross-cultural discussion on the condition of architecture and contemporary culture.

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Cynthia Davidson

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Like a ship captain's logbook, Log records observations of one's surroundings, in particular of movements in architecture and contemporary culture. Log fills the void in American architectural publishing that has existed singe the closing of ANY and the journal Assemblage by providing a venue for criticism and a discussion of contemporary work and ideas. 
Edited by Cynthia Davidson, (editor of ANY), Log includes articles by established scholars and critics as well as the work of emerging writers. Log 3 features essays by Francesco Dal Co, Charles Jencks, Wes Jones, Sylvia Lavin, and R.E. Somol, reflecting the diversity of the cross-cultural discussion on the condition of architecture and contemporary culture.

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Arts & Photography

Sarah Whiting

R.E Somol

Architecture

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Log 7 addresses approaches to architectural theory including an analysis of bigness, the differences between the project and the plan, the architecture of the theoretical-military complex, and views on iconic building. Authors include Pier Vittorio Aureli, Jean-Louis Cohen, Peter Eisenman, Luis Fernandez-Galiano, Reinhold Martin, Deborah Richmond, Julie Rose, Eyal Weizman, Mirko Zardini, and more, in essays that span from Sydney to Paris to Pakistan.

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Log 8: Toward a Critique of Sustainable Architecture and Landscape ------ The shelter (primitive hut) that became known as architecture first allowed humanity to sustain itself against nature. Today, architecture built to shelter humans from nature, must also protect nature from humans. It is architecture itself that must be sustainable. But what myths, clichs, and assumptions sustain sustainability itself? When is green architecture good architecture? When is it not? Why, for instance, is it impossible to say no to sustainability (is sustainability the new political correctness)? Is it possible to theorize sustainability, or even to pose a critique of something so loosely defined? These questions form themselves alongside the definition of sustainable architecture itself, at a moment that is ripe for a critique and evaluation of sustainability, and its different shades of green. ------------ Contents: Marc Anglil and Cary Siress visit a booming Dubai, Shumon Basar stays up all night in London, Tina di Carlo muses on the idea of tropical green, Cynthia Davidson talks with Glenn Murcutt, Daniela Fabricius looks at regreening Vieques, Jeanne Gang recycles industrial byproducts in Calumet, David Greene fabricates plugin nature (a Logplug!), Catherine Ingraham camps in the American desert, Mark Jarzombek sizes up the concept of sustainability, Jordan Kauffman meets LEED consultant Wendy Meguro, Bill Kelley, Jr., strolls Not A Cornfield in Los Angeles, Leon Krier finds hope at the end of the age of fossil fuel, Caroline O Donnell recalls the sustainability studio, Alessandra Ponte examines counterculture garbage, Hanno Rauterberg assesses a museum for Mercedes, Julie Rose follows the Wollemi Pine saga in Sydney, Zo Ryan queries environmental artist Mel Chin, Ole Scheeren proposes a Shanghai tropical soup... AND MORE!

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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.

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Pier Vittorio Aureli

Susan Buck-Morss

Reinhold Martin

Keller Easterling

John Rajchman

Georges Teyssot

Catherine Ingraham

Paul Hegarty

Ana Maria Leon

Marco Belpoliti

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.

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Peter Eisenman

Paul Virilio

Mark C. Taylor

Jean-Louis Cohen

Anthony Vidler

Yona Friedman

Sylvia Lavin

Bernard Tschumi

Alejandro Zaera-Polo

Log 15 is a slice through the present, featuring the current work and thinking of some of today's leading architectural historians and theorists: Barry Bergdoll, Mario Carpo, Jean-Louis Cohen, Beatriz Colomina, Hubert Damisch, Peter Eisenman, Kurt Forster, Mark Jarzombek, Irving Lavin, Sylvia Lavin, Mark Wigley, and Mirko Zardini. Assembled to honor Phyllis Lambert on her 80th birthday, these essays range from an architectural and archaeological reading of Chris Marker's post-apocalyptic film La La Jetée to Dravidian architecture in India; from Gordon Matta-Clark's erasure of architecture to the persistence of asphalt; from the influence of Andy Warhol on ambient architecture past and present to the house in the museum and the museum in the house.

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