Log 31: New Ancients recognizes the sudden reappearance of history in the work of an emerging group of architects, curators, theorists, and, of course, historians. Drawing a parallel with the 17th-century quarrel between the Ancients and Moderns at the Academie française, guest editors Dora Epstein Jones and Bryony Roberts present the work of practitioners who explore the contemporary possibilities of history. This Spring/Summer 2014 issue particularly emphasizes drawing that synthesizes technology and precedent, including a Piranesi-inspired digital reimagining of Istanbul and an animated analytic drawing of Borromini’s San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane linked via a QR code in the magazine. In short, Log 31 offers a look into history’s history as a way to circumvent the paradigm of constant mechanical innovation.
Contents
Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Neo-Naturalism
Andrew Atwood, Rendering Air: On Representation of Particles in the Sky
Sarah Blankenbaker, Idiosyncratic Perspectives
Mark Ericson, Domestic Inversion
David Gissen, The Path to the Acropolis, a Reconstruction
Urtzi Grau & Cristina Goberna, What Kinds of Copies?
Mark Jarzombek, The Shanghai Expo and the Rise of Pop-Arch
Dora Epstein Jones, The Pas de Chat: A Modern Tale of Discipline and Reward
Thomas Kelley, Five Self-Portraits
Parsa Khalili, Campus Martius East
Amy Kulper, Out of Character
Anna Neimark, On White on White
Marc Neveu, The Truth of the Flying Pamphlet
William O’Brien Jr., Labyrinth
Jorge Otero-Pailos, Space-Time 1964/2014
Jason Payne, Projekti Bunkerizimit: The Strange Case of the Albanian Bunker
Emmanuel Petit, Spherical Penetrability: Literal and Phenomenal
Bryony Roberts, Beyond the Querelle
Bryony Roberts with Sarah Whiting, Re: Forms
Matt Roman, The King’s Gambit
Jonah Rowen, Some Difficulties in Drawing Spheres in Relation to Forms in General
Daniel Sherer, The Architectural Project and the Historical Project: Tensions, Analogies, Discontinuities
Enrique Walker, Scaffolding
Cameron Wu, Of Circles and Lines
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