Given the social, economic, environmental, and even media demands on architecture today, how are architectural ideas sustained beyond conception to become buildings? In a special, tenth anniversary issue, Log 29: In Pursuit of Architecture presents ten outstanding architectural projects from the past decade--some well-known, others completely new--in a full-color portfolio format that illustrates the concepts and processes of each building. Selected from an open call for work built since 2003, these buildings demonstrate a range of architectural ideas, and together open a conversation about the production and significance of architecture today. To situate the ten-project portfolio, Log 29 includes essays by four critics who reflect on recent and emerging themes in architecture and directions the discipline may develop.

Contents

51N4E, TID Tower

Barkow Leibinger, Campus Restaurant and Event Space

C+S architects, LCV

Cynthia Davidson, Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City

Sam Jacob, Faster, But Slower

LAN, EDF Archives Center

Sylvia Lavin, Lying Fallow

MOS, Element House

Neil M. Denari Architects, HL23

OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Villa Buggenhout

Emmanuel Petit, Involution, Ambience, and Architecture

Preston Scott Cohen, Inc., Herta and Paul Amir Building, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Reiser + Umemoto, O-14

Jacqueline Rose, Vertical Thoughts

UNStudio, Mercedes-Benz Museum

Sarah Whiting, Possibilitarianism