CENTER 21: The Secret Life of Buildings employs the nascent philosophies of speculative realism and object-oriented ontology to illuminate architecture as a peculiar set of objects, phenomena, relations, materials, and operations. Object-oriented ontology (OOO) is a philosophy that considers all objects (virtual or physical, large or small, singular or plural, closed or open) to be on equal ontological footing. Although it doesn't exclude humans, it treats them as just another set of objects. This volume explores OOO's significance to architecture, and possibly vice versa.

CENTER 21: The Secret Life of Buildings

Michael Benedikt

Ian Bogost

Albena Yaneva

Patrik Schumacher

Graham Harman

Kory Bieg

Craig Dykers

Levi Bryant

Keith Ragsdale

Center for American Architecture and Design

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

Eric Owen Moss

Mark Jarzombek

Markus Miessen

Ingeborg M. Rocker

Michael Cadwell

Tom Vandeputte

Tom Daniell

Ole W. Fischer

Ariane Lourie Harrison

Anyone Corporation

<p>To mark Log’s 20 years of observing architecture and the contemporary city, former guest editors and current editorial protagonists were invited to interview someone whose work resonates with their current thinking or concerns, or even with what keeps them up at night. The conversations they initiated range from designing with AI to AI’s possible future consciousness; from natural French wine to Indigenous Mexican textiles; from building architecture to theorizing architecture; from corruption in the building industry to untold histories. Literary critic Caroline Levine calls for activism; urbanist Milton S.F. Curry says it’s a time for manifestos; and artist Ursula Biemann brings our relationship to a changing Earth System into sharper view. The ideas and opinions of the 55 voices in Log 59 both push against and coincide with each other. But they all testify to the changes in architecture and culture since Log was launched in September 2003.</p>

Log 59

Arts & Photography

Peter Eisenman

Pier Vittorio Aureli

Sanford Kwinter

Valerio Olgiati

David Chalmers

Michael Meredith

Katharine Hayhoe

Elisa Iturbe

Sylvia Lavin

K. Michael Hays

Emanuele Coccia

Caroline Levine

Amale Andraos

Preston Scott Cohen

Andrew Holder

Sean Canty

Anna Neimark

Milton S.F. Curry

Jaffer Kolb

Phyllis Lambert

Meejin Yoon

Architecture

Latent Utopias: Experiments Within Contemporary Architecture (English and German Edition)

Zaha Hadid

Springer

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