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Announcing submissions for Clog: Brutalism, due November 05, 2012.

A defining architectural style of the postwar era—characterized by severe, abstract geometries and the use of cast concrete, block and brick—Brutalism arguably produced some of the world’s least popular public buildings. The style’s international propagation brought modern architecture to ever-larger constituencies, and some argue that the perceived shortcomings of these Brutalist structures led to the demise of the Modernist project. . . .

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Come celebrate with us on Friday May, 7th from 7-10pm at the SUPERFRONT Gallery for the release of the Spring 2010 edition of tarp: Architecture Manual: Coding Parameters! Edited by graduate students in Architecture at Pratt Institute, this issue features essays and work by students and established professionals. There will be music, video projections, light refreshments, and free copies of the publication!

This year’s issue focuses on the engagement of digital processes which are currently at the forefront of architectural discourse and practice.

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log 15 continues the any corporation’s dominance over contemporary architecture journals. the issue documents the lectures presented at sylvia lavin’s symposium “as is” which marked phylis lambert’s 80th birthday. barry bergdoll discusses the display of houses in museums, sylvia lavin explores andy warhol and disco, mark wigley writes about gordon matta clark, jean louis cohen “goes underground with chris marker,” beatriz colomina discusses le corbusier and mies van der rohe, and peter eisenman “paints himself into a corner.”

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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.

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cambridge university press: the only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the architecture libri decem (ten books on architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the western world, having shaped architecture and the image of the architect from the renaissance to the present.

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log 17 , “the superficial issue,” explores issues of form, sensation, mood, styling, and affect in architecture while creating some distance from the contemporary hangups of sustainability, scientific data, and process. the issue contains excellent writings by sylvia lavin, david erdman, and the not to be missed essay “hair and makeup” by jason payne. there are also three illuminating conversations with participants including thom mayne, hernan diaz alonso, marcelo spina, elena manferdini, peter zellner, tom wiscombe, and kivi sotamaa.