A conference on buildings and ideas

Saturday, September 21, 2013, 10AM–5PM
The Museum of Modern Art
New York, New York

To mark its 10th anniversary and 29th issue, Log presents In Pursuit of Architecture, a conference featuring recent built work selected from an open, international call for submissions. Join architects and critics for a daylong discussion of architectural ideas, what it takes to build them, and how we measure the cultural value of architecture.

51N4E

TID TOWER – TIRANA, ALBANIA

51N4E partner Freek Persyn will discuss the firm’s light-catching tower, the first built icon in Tirana’s new master plan.

BARKOW LEIBINGER

CAMPUS RESTAURANT – DITZINGEN, GERMANY

Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger focus on material research and emergent technologies. Barkow will present their experimental addition to a factory campus.

C+S ARCHITECTS

LCV – VENICE, ITALY

Partners Carlo Cappai and Maria Alessandra Segantini will describe how they negotiated historic and modern Venice to produce a contemporary teza.

LAN

EDF ARCHIVES CENTER – BURE, FRANCE

LAN (Local Architecture Network) partner Umberto Napolitano will discuss wrapping a box in the countryside with shimmering concrete.

MOS

ELEMENT HOUSE – LAS VEGAS, NEW MEXICO, USA

Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample will discuss how shape, system, and budget can lead to an alternate domestic sensibility.

NEIL M. DENARI ARCHITECTS

HL23 – NEW YORK, USA

Neil Denari will explain how maximizing a zoning envelope produced a residential icon for the media age.

OFFICE KERSTEN GEERS DAVID VAN SEVEREN

VILLA BUGGENHOUT – BUGGENHOUT, BELGIUM

OFFICE partner Kersten Geers will present a hedonistic Renaissance villa that attempts to ignore its Flanders suburb.

PRESTON SCOTT COHEN

TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART – TEL AVIV, ISRAEL

Preston Scott Cohen will demonstrate how geometry was used to synthesize art and architecture.

REISER + UMEMOTO

O-14 – DUBAI, UAE

Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto will explain the poignant iconicity of their tower in the utopian testbed of Dubai.

UNSTUDIO

MERCEDES-BENZ MUSEUM – STUTTGART, GERMANY

UNStudio partner Ben van Berkel will unravel the interwoven layers of an endless double helix that defines a museum.

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