Log’rithms

five exponential conversations in architecture

Event 5 – Overcoming Carbon Form

October 21, 2021

Powered by fossil fuels, the unencumbered movement of people and goods defines our contemporary built environment. Even though the climate impact of this mobility is well understood, architecture is yet to confront what it means to transition away from such a system. Elisa Iturbe, guest editor of Log 47: Overcoming Carbon Form (Fall 2019), Ross Exo Adams, Jesse LeCavalier, and Mimi Sheller discussed the relationship between mobility and urbanization, which is to say, between energy and form.

event 4 – Model Behavior

September 16, 2021

Architect Tom Wiscombe, historian Marrikka Trotter, artist Thomas Demand, and new media theorist Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, as well as curator Mirko Zardini, discussed themes explored in Log 50 (Fall 2020). Model Behavior interrogates models in an expanded sense, from the architectural to the economic, from political to climate: what are their values, their behaviors, and the behaviors they elicit?

Event 3 – Reorigination

August 19, 2021

In Reorigination, David Erdman and architects representing four continents – Kunlé Adeyemi, Jing Liu, Débora Mesa Molina, and Philip Yuan – discuss how displacing contextual origins can initiate new, sustainable origins for architecture.

Event 2 – The Science of Architecture

July 15, 2021

Appropriating the “art” of architecture, The Science of Architecture takes up thermodynamics and skins, enchantment and ghosts, elegance and alchemy in the work of six University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design faculty. Presentations by Dorit Aviv, Laia Mogas-Soldevila, Karel Klein, Ferda Kolatan, Masoud Akbarzadeh, and Robert Stuart-Smith will be followed by discussions moderated by Winka Dubbeldam.

Event 1 – Excursions in the Ecosphere

June 17, 2021

Excursions in the Ecosphere is the first of six online conversations Log is hosting on the third Thursday of each month from June through November via the Italian Virtual Pavilion during the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale. In this conversation, moderated by editor Cynthia Davidson, the speakers expand on ideas from their essays in Excursion in the Ecosphere, the special section in Log 51, guest edited by Sanford Kwinter.

Sanford Kwinter, professor of Science and Design at the Pratt Institute in New York.
Aleksandra Jaeschke, assistant professor at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture.
Bruce Mau, cofounder and CEO of Massive Change Network and chief design officer for Freeman