Log 37: cataLog
Spring/Summer 2016
Paperback, 240 pages

MAS Context 27: Debate
Fall 2015
Paperback/PDF, 288 pages

Log 37
In June 2015, the University of Michigan?s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, with curators Cynthia Davidson and Monica Ponce de Leon, were selected to organize the U.S. Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. Ponce de Leon was dean of Taubman at the time (now she's dean at Princeton) and Davidson is best known as the director of the Anyone Corporation, which hosted and published the ANY symposia and books back in the 1990s, and now publishes Log. Therefore it's not surprising that the official catalog of the U.S. Pavilion is published by Anycorp and playfully worded as cataLog.
In addition to presentations of the twelve projects that make up "The Architectural Imagination" ? the pavilion's attempt at sparking debate around the future of Detroit through speculative architectural projects by the likes of Greg Lynn, MOS, and Stan Allen ? the 37th issue of the thrice-yearly Log includes essays by the curators, as well as Robert Fishman (interim dean at Taubman), a couple names that will be familiar to regular Log readers ? K. Michael Hays and Sylvia Lavin ? and a few others. The issue is most valuable as a documentation of the pavilion and its twelve projects, but also for contextualizing the pavilion through Davidson's and Fishman's essays ? on "The Architectural Imagination" theme and...