Log 27 presents the vast realm of both critical and imaginative architectural thinking about the city today. With the urban as a broadly thematic undercurrent, this spring 2013 issue interrogates current trends in the discourse, with theoretical readings of the form of the contemporary city, discussions of planning ranging from historical evaluation to speculative predictions and the purely hypothetical, critiques of the linear paradigm of capitalist urban development, as well as an in-depth look at Lebbeus Wood’s Light Pavilion.

Contents

Marc Angélil & Cary Sireis, Cingapura: Cities in Circulation

Pier Vittorio Aureli, The Theology of Tabula Rasa: Walter Benjamin and
Architecture in the Age of Precarity

Tom Daniell, “Nothing Serious”

Malak Helmy, The stupid matter, or, some thoughts that rhyme and don’t

Timothy Hyde, Piles, Puddles, and other Architectural Irritants

Tom Kovac, 100YC [100-Year City]

Christoph a. Kumpusch, The First and the Last

Mark Morris, Two Hundred and Eighty-Eight Lines

Emmanuel Petit, Projects for the Post-Ironic City

François Roche, Le pari(s) de BKK

Julie Rose, Hong Kong’s Shifting Grounds

Peter Trummer, The City as an Object: Thoughts on the Form of the City

Mechtild Widrich, Spatial Implications of the Monument to Freedom and
Unity in Leipzig

Lebbeus Woods, Light Pavilion

Hajime Yatsuka, Urban Project as Thought Experiment

Plus: On urban models . . . On SimCity . . . On hugeness . . . On orientation . . . On micro-housing . . .