LOG POSTCARD COMPETITION / WINNING ENTRY CHOSEN

Anyone Corporation is pleased to announce the first competition to design a Log postcard resulted in 112 submissions. We have reviewed the entries and will announce the winner shortly. Winners will be posted to our redesigned Web site in January 2010.

The winning entry will appear on the cover of Log 18, to be published in February 2010. In addition, the winner will receive a two-year subscription to Log.

CURRENT ISSUES 2008-09

Log 17 (Fall 2009) - The Superficial Issue - Never has the dismissive attitude toward the "superficial" been more palpable than in this moment of melting icecaps, collapsing economies, unjust wars, and the architectural troop-surge on the ubiquitous front of sustainability. In the categorical dismissal of the superficial in favor of the deeply important and urgent, architecture has perhaps unwittingly abandoned the joyful, beautiful, even delirious qualities to which our discipline has been inexorably tied since Vitruvius championed architectural delight. Log 17 explores the "superficial" territories we so frequently and perhaps unwisely, or at least unwittingly, dismiss. Given our culture of celebrity glamour, concocted reality programs, and a multibillion-dollar industry dedicated to youthful appearance, the superficial is arguably the 800-pound gorilla in the room. At the same time, like the puddle that seems shallow until one takes the perspective of an ant, the realm of the so-called superficial is a possible area of unexamined architectural potential. Log 17 investigates the idea of superficiality as a new form of architectural life, containing surprising new questions, unexpected consequences, and at the very least a glimpse of the architectural delight we all fell in love with in the first place. - Mark Foster Gage and Florencia Pita, Guest Editors - CONTRIBUTORS - For a short review of Log 17 by Jessica Witkin, see Anthem Magazine.

Log 16 (Spring/Summer 2009) - Log 16 features an interview with O.M. Ungers conducted by Rem Koolhaas and Hans-Ulrich Obrist in September 2004 almost exactly three years before Ungers's death. The interview traces Ungers' career from postwar Germany through the 1960s, when he was teaching in Berlin, to his time in the US at Cornell in the 1970s, plus various mid-career and late projects, including an exhibition staged in 1981 and plans for another he intended for the New National Gallery, Berlin, in 2006 (but never executed), called "And Still No More." Log 16 also includes: Alejandro Zaera-Polo's Part II of "The Politics of the Envelope"; Pier Vittorio Aureli's "More and More About Less and Less: Notes Toward a History of Non-figurative Architecture"; Otavio Leonidio's "Another Void," a critique of Alvaro Siza's Ibere Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre (Brazil); and several accessories after the fact surveying the state of contemporary theory, including comments on Slavoj Zizek's recent remarks in New York regarding "Architectural Parallax," Sarah Whiting's review via the rear-view mirror of the potential of the superblock, and a look at the suspect terrain of so-called "research architecture." CONTRIBUTORS

Log 15 (Winter 2009) - Log 15 is a slice through the present, featuring the current work and thinking of some of today's leading architectural historians and theorists. Assembled to honor Phyllis Lambert on her 80th birthday, these essays range from an architectural and archaeological reading of Chris Marker's post-apocalyptic film La Jetée to Dravidian architecture in India; from Gordon Matta-Clark's erasure of architecture to the persistence of asphalt; from the influence of Andy Warhol on ambient architecture past and present to the house in the museum and the museum in the house. CONTRIBUTORS

Log 13/14 (Fall 2008) - A special double issue surveying the significance of the seminal year 1968 forty years later. Essays examine the events and aftershocks of 1968 via the subsequent development of architectural and cultural movements over two generations. CONTRIBUTORS

FORTHCOMING ISSUES 2010

Log 18 (Winter 2010) – Open issue – Nonthematic – Will include: Simone Brott on Deleuze’s reception in New York by way of Columbia University in the 1970s and an anarcho-aesthetic bloc within the New York counterculture; Pier Vittorio Aureli on Manfredo Tafuri’s “Intellectual Work”; Alejandro Zaera-Polo’s polemic on “Cheapness” and its pretensions; Marc Angelil and Cary Siress’s survey of garbage and its vicissitudes (including “orgiastic recycling”); plus observations on La Tourette at fifty, Herzog & de Meuron’s parking garage in Miami, and the Burnham Centennial pavilions by Zaha Hadid and Ben van Berkel in Millennium Park, Chicago.

Log 19 (Spring/Summer 2010) - Open issue - Deadline for submissions February 15, 2010. For submission guidelines, see CONTRIBUTE.

Log 20 (Fall 2010) - Curating Architecture - Revised deadline May 1, 2010 - Curating Architecture will address current strategies for curating architecture by way of interviews and articles with and about artists working within or with architectural themes, plus exemplary curatorial projects representative of the convergence of the two disciplines in present-day installation art and design exhibitions proper. For submission guidelines, see CONTRIBUTE.

SUBSCRIBE NOW.

SELECTED ESSAYS (PDFs) FROM PAST ISSUES

Log 5 (Spring/Summer 2005) - R.E. Somol and Sarah Whiting, Okay, Here's the Plan

Log 7 (Winter/Spring 2006) - Peter Eisenman, Duck Soup; and Reinhold Martin, Moment of Truth

Log 9 (Winter/Spring 2007) - Alberto Asor Rosa, Manfredo Tafuri, or, Humanism Revisited; Peter Sloterdijk, Foam City; and Michael Stanton, Heavy Manners: Beirut, War, and Real Estate

PDF FILES REQUIRE ADOBE ACROBAT READER AVAILABLE HERE

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