Log 58
Summer 2023
From building renovations to drawing trees and planting forests; AI and air flow; exhibitions of architecture and architecture for exhibitions, Log 58 brings together articles by 18 authors, both new and established. In this 160-page open issue, Emmett Zeifman codifies “Five Points” in the work of Lacaton & Vassal and Lisa Hsieh finds kawaii qualities in Hideyuki Nakayama’s designs. Harish Krishnamoorthy explores two politicized Hong Kong museums while Cynthia Davidson studies Studio Gang’s addition to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Mario Carpo considers the generative capacity of precedents in AI; Ian Erickson, the form-finding potential of a digital breeze; and Phillip Denny, the details of a drawing by Michelle JaJa Chang. Shiila Infriccioli recounts the aftermath of a storm in Italy, Waiko Waida storyboards an early modern movement in Japan, and Norihisa Kawashima renovates an office building.
Then there are the exhibitions: Donald Bates, Courtney Coffman, and Thomas Daniell each assess the good, the bad, and the socializing at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale. Christian Nakarado reviews “Confronting Carbon Form” at The Cooper Union in New York, and Patrick Templeton visits “Transformación urbana: Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos” in Mexico City.
Log 58 also pays tribute to three important, recently lost voices, two of them with new translations: Arata Isozaki on Metabolism, and Bruno Latour on modernism; as well as Craig Hodgetts’s remembrance of Los Angeles visionary architect Robert Mangurian.
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Contents
Donald Bates, “Postcards from Venice”
Mario Carpo, “Formal Analysis, Generative AI and the Eternal Return of Precedent”
Courtney Coffman, “Letter from Venice: Wind at Our Backs”
Thomas Daniell & Arata Isozaki, “Containing Multitudes”
Thomas Daniell, “The Nature of the Offense”
Cynthia Davidson, “Studio Gang’s Shotcrete Canyon”
Phillip Denny, “Forest for the Trees”
Ian Erickson, “Rendering Air Revisited: On the Imaginary Breeze”
Craig Hodgetts, “Robert Mangurian: A Picaresque Legacy”
Lisa Hsieh, “Make Me a Fantastical World”
Shiila Infriccioli, “Deconstructing the Dolomites”
Norihisa Kawashima, “Building a Good Cycle”
Harish Krishnamoorthy, “One Country, Two Museums"
Bruno Latour, “The End of Modernity”
Christian Nakarado, “Depicting Carbon Form”
Patrick Templeton, “Shaping a Skyline: SMA in Mexico City”
Waiko Waida, “Bunriha Kenchiku Kai True Stories”
Emmett Zeifman, “The Five Points of Lacaton & Vassal”
And observations on a prototype and the Africatown Competition . . .