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.

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Ioanna Angelidou, Metabolism and After: A Correspondence with Hajime Yatsuka

Craig Buckley, Never Demolish: Bois-le-Prêtre Regrows in Paris
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Evan Chakroff, Recasting History: The Ningbo Historic Museum

Tom Daniell, The Return of the Repressed
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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
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Palmyra Geraki, A Building’s Building: The New Acropolis Museum

Charles Jencks, Contextual Counterpoint in Architecture
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Jeffrey Kipnis, Location Location Location – or, for whom they built holes
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Sylvia Lavin, Tenderness
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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
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Anthony Vidler, Up Against the Wall: Colin Rowe at La Tourette
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