Log 50: Model Behavior
Fall 2020
From the economic to the political, from public health to the climate, models seem to run the world. In architecture, the model is no longer just a physical tool for conceptualizing or representing architects’ visions but must also encompass digital and 3D-printed models, data and artificial intelligence models, business models, educational models, and even engage the discipline’s own questionable history in establishing role models. A thematic issue, Log 50: Model Behavior interrogates models in this expanded sense: what are their values, their behaviors, and the behaviors they elicit. In a record-setting 256 pages, 39 authors, ranging from established architectural thinkers to up-and-coming practitioners, examine the role of the model in architecture today through critical essays, conversations, observations, projects, and provocations.
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Contents
Stan Allen, “Thinking in Models”
Sean Anderson, “Compound Tenses”
Phil Bernstein, “Canonical Models of Architecture”
Cynthia Davidson, “Notes on a Concept: Model Behavior”
Joe Day, “One to One”
Penelope Dean, “Business, Actually”
Dora Epstein Jones, “Models In and Out”
David Erdman, “Mottle Behavior”
David Eskenazi, “Tired . . . and Behaving Poorly”
Marshall Ford, “Blue Foam”
Forensic Architecture, “Operative Models”
Todd Gannon, “Mind the Gaps! Toward a Pedagogy of Models and a Model Pedagogy”
Erik Herrmann, “Role Play”
Eric Höweler, “Verify in Field: Models and Other Useful Fictions”
Christian Hubert, “Model Behavior?”
Ferda Kolatan, “The Chunk Model”
Jimenez Lai, “Ephemeral Models’ Permanent Ghosts”
Mark Lee & Sharon Johnston, “Models and Models of Models”
Alice Loumeau, “The World Model”
John McMorrough, “Not a Role, Model”
Michael Meredith, “A Conversation about Models”
Kiel Moe, “Architectural Agnotology & Broken World Models”
Rizal Muslimin, “Computational Puppets”
Jason Rhys Parry, “Simulating an Assassination: Four Explosion Models”
Shane Reiner-Roth, “Internet Browser”
Jesse Reiser, “Voodoo”
Paulette Singley, “Dollhouses and Other Bad Objects”
Tyler Survant, “Modeling and Remodeling the Oval Office”
Patrick Templeton, “A Model Painter: Behind the Scenes with Amy Bennett”
Neyran Turan, “Unnatural Models”
Tom Wiscombe & Marrikka Trotter, “The Inner Life of Models”
Andrew Witt, “Shadowplays: Models, Drawings, Cognitions”
Kechao Xiang, Log of Curiosity
And observations on a model education, a model city, natural models, a border model, and the Chicago model . . .