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. Contents Ioanna Angelidou, Metabolism and After: A Correspondence with Hajime Yatsuka Craig Buckley, Never Demolish: Bois-le-Prêtre Regrows in Paris Evan Chakroff, Recasting History: The Ningbo Historic Museum Tom Daniell, The Return of the Repressed Tina Di Carlo, Postmodern Modernism Luis Fernández-Galiano, Just what is it that makes Herzog & de Meuron s CaixaForum so different, so appealing? Todd Gannon, Of Raspberries, Rawhide, and Rhetoric Palmyra Geraki, A Building s Building: The New Acropolis Museum Charles Jencks, Contextual Counterpoint in Architecture Jeffrey Kipnis, Location Location Location or, for whom they built holes Sylvia Lavin, Tenderness Michael Lindgren, Dwight Macdonald and the Idea of Cultural Criticism Gabrielle Mastrigli, The Theater of the City: The Museum of XXIst Century Arts John McMorrough, MOS Movies, or the Phantasmagoria of Discipline Ken Tadashi Oshima, Metabolist Trajectories Gerhard Richter, Study for Glass Wall (recto and verso) Ingeborg M. Rocker, On Distortions: An Interview with Preston Scott Cohen Daniel Sherer, The Historicity of the Modern Anthony Vidler, Up Against the Wall: Colin Rowe at La Tourette Plus: On Colbert . . . On connections . . . On the factory . . . On weaving . . .