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
