Log 24

Log 24 is a compilation of architecture criticism that exemplifies the range of criticism today. Encountering buildings, exhibitions, films, and books, twenty authors disentangle the challenges and problems the work poses to the critic and the architect, as well as render an incisive portrait of contemporary architecture.

The special emphasis on architecture criticism in Log 24 is due to belief in the necessary value of the critic and thoughtful criticism, not only within architecture itself, but also in an age of excess of information. The call for submission asked ,”What does it mean to write architecture criticism? Are there projects that cause reappraisal of architecture?” This issue does not attempt to answer those questions directly. The intent was not analyze criticism but to produce criticism , to take on the action of criticism through physical and mental participation in an object of inquiry  in ways that must suggest answers to those questions.

007 Up Against the Wall : Colin Rowe at La Tourette / Anthony Vidler
019 Dwight Macdonald and the idea of Cultural Criticism / Michael Lindgren
023 The Return of the Repressed / Tom Daniell
028 Metabolist Trajectories / Ken Tadashi Oshima
033 Metabolism and After : A Correspondence with Hajime Yatsuka / Ioanna Angelidou
043 Never Demolish: Bois-le- Prête Regrows in Paris / Craig Buckley
051 Just what is that makes Herzog & de Meuron’s Caixa Forum so different, so appealing? / Luis Fernández-Galiano
057 Recasting History: The Ningbo Historic Museum / Evan Chakroff
063 A Building’s Building : The New Acropolis Museum / Palmyra Geraki

071 Contextual Counterpoint in Architecture / Charles Jenks
081 Postmodern Modernism / Tina di Carlo
086 Of Raspberries, Rawhide, and Rhetoric / Todd Gannon
095 Tenderness / Sylvia Lavin
103 The Theater of the City :  The Museum of XXIst Century Arts / Gabrielle Mastrigli
111 MOS Movies, or the Phantasmagoria of Discipline / John McMorrough
117 On Distortions: An Interview with Preston Scott Cohen
126 The Historicity of the Modern / Daniel Sherer
137 Location Location Location – or, for whom they built holes / Jeffrey Kipnis

ISSN: 1547-4690
ISBN: 978-0-9836491