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The widespread practice of psychoanalysis, the development of genetic engineering, and the raised consciousness of the female body have altered not only the traditional idea of body but also of how we inhabit the body, and hence make and inhabit space. How does the new understanding of the body relate to space? How does architecture adjust to this new idea of body? When does the body become the body politic? In Anybody, these and other questions are argued by thirty essayists.
Architects, artists, and intellectuals address architecture's relationship to space and time in this latest addition to the series that began with Anyone.Architecture functions between tradition and innovation, between historical archetypes and that which as yet has no form. This historicity and concurrent openness to futurity are two of the subjects discussed in Anytime, which probes architecture's relationships with space and time. After a section called Beginnings, in which ten young architects address rupture, change, and movement, the book is organized into five sections: Trajectories, The Collapse of Time, (M)anytimes, Futures, and Rethinking Space and Time. ContributorsAkira Asada, Hu...
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Presents the recipients of the 1998 Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
Particular Saints draws on church history, art history, and theater history to address these questions by illustrating that Renaissance stage Antonios are a type, representing a tradition familiar to early modern audiences and exploited by Shakespeare in portraying his four major characters named Antonio.
"Until now, most environmental discourse in architecture has focused on carbon as a by-product of building and construction," writes guest editor Elisa Iturbe in Log 47, "making it seem that at the ecological brink, architecture's most pressing concern is energy efficiency." "Overcoming Carbon Form," Log's 200-page thematic Fall issue, reconceives architecture's role in climate change, away from sustainability and solutionism and toward architecture's formal complicity and potential agency in addressing the climate crisis. As Iturbe writes, "Decarbonization is not solely a question of technology and buildings systems but also a theoretical question for architecture and the city, one that que...
[Winter 2015] Log 33 delivers emerging currents and renewed interests in architectural thought. It includes a thorough examination of object-oriented philosophy: two essays offering contrasting positions on its value for the architectural discipline as well as a conversation between philosopher Graham Harman and architects Todd Gannon, David Ruy, and Tom Wiscombe. Objects are invoked throughout the issue in myriad other ways ¿ in essays on the postcritical legacy, architecture and objecthood, shape and character, history and machines ¿ highlighting the currency and multivalence of the term object in the discourse today. Log 33, which follows two best-selling issues, also presents Wolfgang Schivelbusch¿s ¿World Machines,¿ the new preface to his recently republished book The Railway Journey as well as critical commentary on architectural events from around the world, essays on urban noise and architectural acoustics, new explorations of the architect¿s hand in drawing, and more.
From the economic to the political, from public health to the climate, models seem to run the world. In architecture, the model is no longer just a physical tool for conceptualizing or representing architects' visions but must also encompass digital and 3D-printed models, data and artificial intelligence models, business models, educational models, and even engage the discipline's own questionable history in establishing role models. A thematic issue, Log 50: Model Behavior interrogates models in this expanded sense: what are their values, their behaviors, and the behaviors they elicit. In a record-setting 256 pages, 39 authors, ranging from established architectural thinkers to up-and-coming practitioners, examine the role of the model in architecture today through critical essays, conversations, observations, projects, and provocations.
A monograph of legendary and cult architect, Peter Eisenman that sums up and illustrates his lifetime's achievement, from his first work, 'House I' (1960). It is centred on sixty-three of Eisenman's significant projects, interspersed by essays from international architects and critics.
An examination of architecture and art as a screen of vital cultural memory that considers museum culture, visual technology, and the border of public and private space. In this thoughtful collection of essays on the relationship of architecture and the arts, Giuliana Bruno addresses the crucial role that architecture plays in the production of art and the making of public intimacy. As art melts into spatial construction and architecture mobilizes artistic vision, Bruno argues, a new moving space—a screen of vital cultural memory—has come to shape our visual culture. Taking on the central topic of museum culture, Bruno leads the reader on a series of architectural promenades from moderni...