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ANY CORPORATION: The Winter 2011 issue of Log features a tug-of-war of ideas and compelling reflections on where architecture might go, running across time from preservation to parametricism, with insightful entries from around the globe in between. Is parametricism the next great style after modernism or is our understanding of progress misguided altogether? Will preservation make its march around the world faster than the parametric Pied Piper? Leading voices chart new courses for form, note of the blistering speed of preservation globally (with some doubts about its authenticity), dispel some myths, and tell true stories of names, weight, and archives.

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The new issue of Log explores the idea of curating architecture. Cynthia Davidson draws on Zaha Hadid, Jeffrey Kipnis writes a letter, Henry Urbach seeks the atmosphere, Hans Ulrich Olbrist alphabetizes concepts, Kurt Forster argues for architecture, and Sylvia Lavin redefines architectural work.

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The new issue of Log explores the idea of curating architecture. Cynthia Davidson draws on Zaha Hadid, Jeffrey Kipnis writes a letter, Henry Urbach seeks the atmosphere, Hans Ulrich Olbrist alphabetizes concepts, Kurt Forster argues for architecture, and Sylvia Lavin redefines architectural work.

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log 15 continues the any corporation’s dominance over contemporary architecture journals. the issue documents the lectures presented at sylvia lavin’s symposium “as is” which marked phylis lambert’s 80th birthday. barry bergdoll discusses the display of houses in museums, sylvia lavin explores andy warhol and disco, mark wigley writes about gordon matta clark, jean louis cohen “goes underground with chris marker,” beatriz colomina discusses le corbusier and mies van der rohe, and peter eisenman “paints himself into a corner.”

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log 16 contains another set of stunning essays and reviews including the second part of alejandro zaero polo’s excellent study of the politics of the envelope, mark gage’s debunking of ‘research architecture’ “in defense of design,” sarah whiting discusses “super”, and pier vittorio aureli does more with less in his “notes toward a history of nonfigurative architecture.” the issue also includes an interview with o. m. ungers by rem koolhaas and hans ulrich obrist.

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cambridge university press: the only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the architecture libri decem (ten books on architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the western world, having shaped architecture and the image of the architect from the renaissance to the present.

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log 17 , “the superficial issue,” explores issues of form, sensation, mood, styling, and affect in architecture while creating some distance from the contemporary hangups of sustainability, scientific data, and process. the issue contains excellent writings by sylvia lavin, david erdman, and the not to be missed essay “hair and makeup” by jason payne. there are also three illuminating conversations with participants including thom mayne, hernan diaz alonso, marcelo spina, elena manferdini, peter zellner, tom wiscombe, and kivi sotamaa.