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Log 17
 Log 17, guest edited by Mark Foster Gage and Florencia Pita, features essays and conversations focusing on relationships between new media and materiality in architecture – with an emphasis on sensation and affect. In place of the traditional postcard, the cover features a 3-D drawing by Tristan Eaton that is accompanied with a pair of 3-D glasses. Contributions from: Sir Peter Cook, Jeffrey Kipnis, Alex McDowell, Mohamed Sharif, Kenneth Frampton and Teresa Stoppani; while conversations featured include: Thom Mayne and Hernán Díaz Alonso on drawing; and, Peter Zellner and colleagues on the ‘Pretensions of Form.’
Paperback / 152 pages / text English / 2009
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Monu 12 Real Urbanism
 Just like the "Ideal Woman" on the cover of this issue on Real Urbanism - a sculpture by the Brooklyn based artist Tony Matelli - most of our cities are shaped by a particular set of values that does not necessarily lead to high quality urban spaces, but instead to scary, ethically unacceptable and distorted forms. As the "Ideal Woman", so "Ideal Cities" can easily end up only fulfilling the wishes and dreams of a powerful minority, but neglect the needs of most of the other people. Jason Lee, one of the contributors to this issue, that deals more with "Real Estate" Urbanism rather than with Actual or Factual Urbanism, uses this sculpture in his article "Luxury Space" to display the consequences that can occur when a financially powerful elite develops real estate projects in the city of Shanghai merely to accommodate their consumerist desires.
Magriet Smit, a Rotterdam based real estate developer, explains in the interview "Life without Architects" that she actually tries more and more to avoid working with planners and rather collaborates directly with construction companies as they share a greater understanding of their profession. But to prevent our cities from turning into monstrous "Ideal Cities", as perverted as the "Ideal Woman", all the parties involved that are shaping the cities - the developers, the municipalities and the planners - have to accept their interdependencies, and have to try to understand the different interests of each party and have to dare to navigate into unknown territory as Bjarke Ingels concludes in an interview with us entitled "Real Big".
Paperback / 144 pages / text English / March 2010
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OASE 79 The Architecture of James Stirling 1964-1992
Joachim Declerck, Christoph Grafe, Ruben Molendijk
 OASE 79 is devoted in its entirety to the architecture of the British architect James Stirling (1926-1992), who played a prominent role in the architecture discourse of the 1980s due to his striking buildings from the 1960s and ’70s. His archi¬tecture, for which he was awarded the third Pritzker Prize in 1981, was praised by critics as emblematic of the British New Brutalism, while his later work is read as the clearest testimony to the transition from modernism to postmodernism. However, because Stirling’s architecture was elevated to being an icon of specific architectural movements, the interest in his work waned as soon as a newer discourse claimed people’s attention. Besides losing its topical relevance, the enduring significance of his oeuvre was called into question.
Paperback / 144 pages / text Dutch, English / November 2009
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Open 18 2030: War Zone Amsterdam
Imagining the Unimaginable
SKOR, Liesbeth Melis, Joride Seijdel
 Amsterdam at war in 2030. This terrifying projection into the future serves to sharpen and expand our thinking about topics such as tolerance, fear, security and control, censorship, public space and urban politics. Neither naming the enemy nor proffering any answers, theorists and artists fire off questions and sketch experimental scenarios, using Amsterdam as a concrete case as well as a strange attractor.
What are the implications of urban warfare in a Western city? Is there a public domain under such circumstances and how does it function? Will people still be producing art, and how will artists reach their public?
2030: War Zone Amsterdam is being produced in association with curator Brigitte van der Sande and accompanies an international art manifestation that she is organizing under the same title, presented in various phases from November 2009 onwards in Amsterdam.
With contributions by Frank Furedi, Kenan Malik, Eyal Weizman, Willem Schinkel, Dirk van Weelden, Matteo Pasquinelli, Tom McCarthy, Gert Jan Kocken, John Armitage & Paul Virilio and Adi Kaplan & Shahar Carmel.
Paperback / 160 pages / text English / November 2009
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Project Russia 51 Simplicity
 It is tempting to link this issue’s theme of simplicity with the current crisis. But there are various ways of doing this; the emphasis may be placed on either practice or theory. In the first case, it will have to be said that the present situation forces us to simplify. This is no time for superfluity; the emphasis is on economy – on a more careful expenditure of resources, including of resources relating to expression and composition. But even in these conditions it is possible to create highquality buildings, as is shown by examples from the past...
Paperback / 256 pages / text English, Russian / 2009
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Verb Crisis
Mario Ballesteros, Albert Ferré, Irene Hwang, Michael Kubo, Tomoko Sakamoto, Anna Tetas, Ramon Prat
 Verb Crisis examines architectural solutions to the extraordinary conditions of a world that is increasingly dense and interdependent. It presents innovative projects and investigations through original photos, essays, and exclusive interviews with key figures from architecture and urban planning to environmental, economic, and global affairs. Verb Crisis tackles the conflict between the physical limits of architectural design and the demands on the practice for an updated social relevance.
Projects include: FOA, Teddy Cruz, Shigeru Ban, Elemental, Boris B.Jensen, Hilary Sample, John May, Jacobo García Germán, Markus Miessen, Interboro Partners, MVRDV and Takuya Onishi.
Paperback / 296 pages / text English / April 2008
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ViA 17 Coast / Litoral
 Sensitive to both human intervention and natural elements, such as waves and wind, coastlines around the world pose interesting challenges to architects who must increasingly balance aesthetic issues, with environmental and cultural concerns. Eighteen projects, ranging from private houses to community facilities, are examined through photographs, plans and introductory texts. Highlights include: Chipperfield's ‘America's Cup Building', Valencia; Sean Godsell's ‘St. Andrews Beach House', Victoria; Toyo Ito's ‘Relaxation Park,' Torrevieja; and Nouvel's Porto Senso, Altea.
Paperback / 160 pages / text English, Spanish / 2007
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Volume 24 Counterculture
 The Counterculture issue of Volume goes beyond the boundaries of architecture to tap into a monad of history – the US in the 1960s – and how it has influenced our beliefs today. With the aid of countercultural leaders, historians and architects, Volume identifies three strands of counterculture – technology, environment and community – and looks at its legacy in relation to contemporary practice.
The issue combines key essays and interviews from leading figures of the period (including Todd Gitlin, Steward Brand, Chip Lord and Fred Turner) to reappraise sustained countercultural values: participation, sharing, hacking, opposition and exclusion. This is accompanied by a visual documentation of the era, with vivid graphics and psychedelic spaces.
The Counterculture issue of Volume is a key text for those wishing to question authority today, by understanding the culture that created it.
Paperback / 160 pages / text English / July 2010
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