Log 43 responds to the many geometries seen in contemporary forms with The Issue of Geometry, a special section guest edited by architectural designer and educator Cameron Wu. Some 25 years after the digital revolution of the 90s, Wu asks, If we are now armed with a more mature understanding of instrumental design tools, how do we reanimate geometry as a design protagonist rather than a mere design enabler or incidental outcome? The architects responses range from Peter Carl's interest in rhythm to Iman Fayyad's perspectival anomalies; from Wes Jones's reassessment of the many relationships of geometry and architecture to Patrik Schumacher's advocating for tectonism; from Andrew Witt's concept of grayboxing to George L. Legendre's form haiku. Wu also offers geometric analyses of five recent buildings, and artist Olafur Eliasson, architect Preston Scott Cohen, and architect Henry N. Cobb talk about their advanced uses of geometry. Log 43 also features essays on architecture's withdrawal from and engagement with architectural austerity, the architecture of crypto mining, and Miesian materiality, as well as a conversation with Japanese architect Hiromi Fujii.

Log 43

Arts & Photography

Thomas Daniell

Iman Fayyad

Matthew Mullane

Olafur Eliasson

Pierre Chabard

Peter, Carl

Cameron Wu

Preston Scott Cohen

Xhulio Binjaku

Souhei Imamura

Josan Ruiz Esquíroz

Henry N. Cobb

Sebastian Behmann

Wes Jones

George L. Legendre

Architecture

Anyone Corporation

La Défense a Dictionary

Virginie Picon-Lefebvre

Editions Parenthèses

'Criticat' is an independent journal of architectural criticism published twice annually. Based in Paris, it was founded in 2007 by a group of architects, historians, and critics on a simple premise: that informed and daring criticism could bring architecture back into everyday public discourse. Twenty-three exemplary articles have been selected from the journal's first ten issues, and appear here in English for the first time. Individual investigations tackle subjects from around the globe: projects by Frank Gehry and Jürgen Mayer h, high-rise buildings in Paris, the purity of New Zealand's landscape, New York's High Line, and much more.

Yours Critically: Writings on Architecture from Issues 1-10 of Criticat

Valéry Didelon

Françoise Fromonot

Criticat

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