Log 23 includes: Mario Carpo on aggregatory design processes; Nicholas de Monchaux on NASA's last shuttle flight; Andrew Witt on the history of design hacking; Pier Vittorio Aureli on Cedric Price's Thinkbelt project; and Paul Virilio on the insecurity of history.
And: Greg Lynn on chemical architecture; Brennan Buck on plastic tectonics; Mike Silver on the structure of an airplane; and Simone Brott on the future in Corbusier's Firmany.
Plus: Antoine Picon reviews Schumacher's treatise; Andrea Phillips finds folly in Zumthor's Serpentine pavilion; Joseph Clarke considers Wagner's Gestamtkunstwerk; Luca Farinelli queries Emilio Ambasz, Peter Eisenman, Steven Holl, Bjarke Ingels, and Thom Mayne; and more.
Pier Vittorio Aureli, Labor and Architecture: Revisiting Cedric Price's Potteries Thinkbelt
Simone Brott, Esprit futur
Brennan Buck, What Plastic Wants
Mario Carpo, Digital Style
Joseph Clarke, Wagnerism Embodied
Nicholas de Monchaux, Requiem in White
Luca Farinelli, 53 Questions, 265 Answers: Emilio Ambasz, Peter Eisenman, Steven Holl, Bjarke Ingels, and Thom Mayne
Roy Lichtenstein, Entablature
Greg Lynn, Chemical Architecture
Andrea Phillips, English Pastoral
Antoine Picon, When Parametricism Tries to Reconnect with Vitruvius
Mike Silver, Many From One
Paul Virilio, The Insecurity of History
Andrew Witt, Design Hacking: The Machinery of Visual Combinatorics
Plus: On gentrification . . . On time capsules . . . On listening . . . On an exhibition . . .
