log 16 contains another set of stunning essays and reviews including the second part of alejandro zaero polo’s excellent study of the politics of the envelope, mark gage’s debunking of ‘research architecture’ “in defense of design,” sarah whiting discusses “super”, and pier vittorio aureli does more with less in his “notes toward a history of nonfigurative architecture.” the issue also includes an interview with o. m. ungers by rem koolhaas and hans ulrich obrist.













