Log 37: The Architectural Imagination cataLog
Spring/Summer 2016
Log 37 takes readers inside “The Architectural Imagination,” the exhibition curated by Log editor Cynthia Davidson and architect Mónica Ponce de León for the United States Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. This special 240-page color issue of Log features 12 new speculative projects designed for four sites in Detroit by visionary American architectural teams. The cataLog also presents writing by the curators, an interview with Detroit planning director Maurice Cox, and essays exploring Detroit’s past and present, as well as the role of imagination in architecture, by critics, theorists, and historians.
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Contents
Maurice Cox, An Agenda for the Everyday
Cynthia Davidson, The Architectural Imagination
Robert Fishman, Detroit and the Acceleration of History
Todd Gannon, Figments of the Architectural Imagination
K. Michael Hays, Architecture’s Appearance and the Practices of Imagination
Sylvia Lavin, Oh My Aching Antenna: The Fall and Rise of Postmodern Creativity
John McMorrough, Funny, Crazy, Silly: Lyrics for the Suspension of Architectural Disbelief
Mónica Ponce de León, United States Pavilion Courtyard, Biennale Architettura 2016
Postscript, My Detroit Postcard Photos
Four Detroit Sites:
Mexicantown/Southwest Detroit
US Post Office
Dequindre Cut/Eastern Market
Packard Plant
Twelve Speculative Projects for Detroit:
A(n) Office, Promised Land Air
BairBalliet, The Next Port of Call
Greg Lynn FORM, Center for Fulfillment, Knowledge, and Innovation
Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, Mexicantown: A Liminal Blur
Marshall Brown Projects, Dequindre Civic Academy
MOS, A Situation Made from Loose and Overlapping Social and Architectural Aggregates
Pita & Bloom, The New Zocalo
Present Future, New Corktown
Preston Scott Cohen Inc., Revolving Detroit
SAA/Stan Allen Architect, Detroit Rock City: An Urban Geology
T+E+A+M, Detroit Reassembly Plant
Zago Architecture, A New Federal Project