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

Eric Owen Moss

Emmanuel Petit

Filip Dujardin

Hanno Rauterberg

Iman Ansari

Keller Easterling

Albert Pope

Elisa Iturbe

Valéry Didelon

Brooke Gladstone

Ian Caine

Matthew Mullane

Jesús Vassallo

Anyone Corporation

In A Country of Cities, author Vishaan Chakrabarti argues that well-designed cities are the key to solving America's great national challenges: environmental degradation, unsustainable consumption, economic stagnation, rising public health costs and decreased social mobility. If we develop them wisely in the future, our cities can be the force leading us into a new era of progressive and prosperous stewardship of our nation. In compelling chapters, Chakrabarti brings us a wealth of information about cities, suburbs and exurbs, looking at how they developed across the 50 states and their roles in prosperity and globalization, sustainability and resilience, and heath and joy. Counter to what you might think, American cities today are growing faster than their suburban counterparts for the first time since the 1920s. If we can intelligently increase the density of our cities as they grow and build the transit systems, schools, parks and other infrastructure to support them, Chakrabarti shows us how both job opportunities and an improved, sustainable environment are truly within our means. In this call for an urban America, he illustrates his argument with numerous infographics illustrating provocative statistics on issues as disparate as rising childhood obesity rates, ever-lengthening automobile commutes and government subsidies that favor highways over mass transit. The book closes with an eloquent manifesto that rallies us to build “a Country of Cities,” to turn a country of highways, houses and hedges into a country of trains, towers and trees. Vishaan Chakrabarti is an architect, scholar and founder of PAU. PAU designs architecture that builds the physical, cultural, and economic networks of cities, with an emphasis on beauty, function and user experience. PAU simultaneously advances strategic urbanism projects in the form of master planning, tactical project advice and advocacy.

A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Metropolis Books

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