A collection of SCI-Arc Director and architect Eric Owen Moss' introductions, essays and lectures. Moss draws from a wide range of literary, philosophical and historic sources to discuss the work of architects and theorists from all over the world who have lectured at SCI-Arc, as well as central themes such as 9/11 and the urban development of Los Angeles.

Who Says What Architecture Is?

Eric Owen Moss

SCI-Arc Press

Georges Teyssot unravels J. Mayer H.'s sinuous Metropol Parasol project in Seville; Allan Weiss meditates on the garden at Ryoan-ji; Eric Owen Moss pays homage to Raimund Abraham; Tom Weaver reads poetry and the tedious prose of Leon Krier's Poundbury; Wes Jones reconsiders architecture as a game; Thomas de Monchaux writes on ''Rising Currents'' and the unexceptional reconstruction of Downtown Manhattan; plus observations on orphic Modernism in the forests of Asuncion, the flatness of Herzog &amp; de Meuron's sets for ''Attila,'' a portfolio from the Hague, and more.

Log 19

François Roche

Allen S. Weiss

Ross, Adams

Georges Teyssot

Christopher Pierce

Thomas De Monchaux

Wes Jones

Craig Hodgetts

Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

Petra Ceferin

Anyone Corporation

Log 21 features a tug-of-war of ideas and reflection on the current status of architecture, running across time from preservation to parametricism, with some insightful entries from in between. Patrik Schumacher campaigns for parametricism as the great style to follow modernism, Ingeborg M. Rocker traces the idea of style and expands parametricism beyond form, and Eric Owen Moss questions the idea of progress. Mark Jarzombek surveys World Heritage sites and considers the metaphysics of impermanence, while Rem Koolhaas notes the march of preservation around the world and Ole W. Fischer reviews two recent books on postmodernism. Entries from around the world: Tom Daniell tells a story of Japanese names; Carson Chan pens a diary from the Venice Biennale; Ariane Lourie Harrison takes a tour of the architecture-studded Novartis campus; Michael Cadwell weighs in on Coop Himmelblau s BMW Welt; Elena Crippa and Tom Vandeputte revisit the conceptual queries on space in 1970s London; and Markus Miessen sifts through Hans Ulrich Obrist's extensive archive. Plus: an AnaLOG cabin by Mitnik Roddier Hicks, general observations on sukkahs, bottled ships, Konrad Wachsmann, Googleplex East, and much more.

Log 21

Rem Koolhaas

Carson Chan

Elena Crippa

Mark Jarzombek

Patrik Schumacher

Markus Miessen

Ingeborg M. Rocker

Michael Cadwell

Tom Vandeputte

Tom Daniell

Ole W. Fischer

Ariane Lourie Harrison

Lebbeus Woods is an Archetype documents the exhibition with the same name hosted at SCI-Arc from October 11-December 1, 2013, as well as a public art installation in the Los Angeles Arts District, both aiming to demonstrate the fearless nature with which the late visionary architect and draftsman created. It includes essays by the exhibition team including Eric Owen Moss, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Christoph A. Kumpusch, Dwayne Oyler, Alexis Rochas and Aleksandra Wagner.

Lebbeus Woods Is An Archetype

Hernan Diaz Alonso

Dwayne Oyler

Alexis Rochas

Aleksandra Wagner

A follow up to the Who Says What Architecture Is book series, Coughing Up the Moon presents an expanded collection of Eric Owen Moss' SCI-Arc lecture introductions, as well as SCI-Arc Gallery exhibition discussions, essays and opinion pieces. Moss draws from a wide range of literary, philosophical and historic sources to discuss the work of architects and theorists from all over the world who have lectured at SCI-Arc, as well as central themes such as modernism and the urban development of Los Angeles.

Coughing Up the Moon

SCI-Arc Press + AADCU

Lectures at SCI-Arc are typically discrete: intro, talk, questions, and a week later the pattern repeats. Not so the March 2012 sequence of three lectures within seven days. This compression of lectures in time produced a blow by blow commentary on contemporary architecture. Featuring lectures by Peter Eisenman, Jeffrey Kipnis and Thom Mayne with intros by Hernan Diaz Alonso and Eric Owen Moss.

Coughing Up The Moon : with apologies to Josef K.

Log 39 looks at a changed political landscape and an evolving urban environment, offering reflections on architecture and the contemporary city both in the United States and around the world. This issue features incisive commentary by critics and historians on recently completed buildings from BIG s VIA 57 West and WORKac s 93 Reade Street in New York to Herzog & de Meuron s Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg to Archi-Depot, a museum dedicated to architecture models in Tokyo. In addition, Michael Meredith, Vale ry Didelon, and Eric Owen Moss contribute writing on the aesthetic of indifference, the history and future of OMA s 1989 Euralille masterplan, and a pseudo-scripture for architects. In a special section, practitioners, critics, and activists address the possibility of architecture in the age of Trump.  In this issue: Brendan Bashin-Sullivan detects the Stealth Building, Vale ry Didelon rides the train to Euralille, Brooke Gladstone networks with Vishaan Chakrabarti, Elisa Iturbe visits the space of the border, Michael Meredith mugs for indifference, Eric Owen Moss finds the Architect s Gospel, Matthew Mullane inventories a Tokyo warehouse, Emmanuel Petit takes measure of VIA 57 West, Hanno Rauterberg scales the Elbphilharmonie, Luka Skansi recontextualizes FLOTUS s roots, and Jesu s Vassallo smudges realism in photography.  Plus: Reflections on architecture in the age of Trump from Joseph Altshuler & Julia Sedlock, Iman Ansari, the Architecture Lobby, Ian Caine, Galo Canizares, Keller Easterling, George Foufas & George Papam, Gabriel Fuentes, Roberto Otero, Albert Pope, Micah Rutenberg, and Tyler Survant & Mark Talbot.  And observations on an Iranian villa and a shiny new subway . . .

Log 39

Vishaan Chakrabarti

Michael Meredith

Emmanuel Petit

Filip Dujardin

Hanno Rauterberg

Iman Ansari

Keller Easterling

Albert Pope

Elisa Iturbe

Valéry Didelon

Brooke Gladstone

Ian Caine

Matthew Mullane

Jesús Vassallo

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