Issue Launch and Discussion: Log 31: New Ancients
Thursday, July 10, @6pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall, Columbia University GSAPP

Please join Log to celebrate the publication of the Spring/Summer 2014 issue, Log 31:New Ancients, guest-edited by Dora Epstein Jones and Bryony Roberts. Epstein Jones and Roberts will be joined in discussion by Log editor Cynthia Davidson and other contributors to the issue, including Columbia GSAPP Associate Professor Enrique Walker.

About the issue
Log 31: New Ancients recognizes the sudden reappearance of history in the work of an emerging group of architects, curators, theorists, and, of course, historians. Drawing a parallel with the 17th-century quarrel between the Ancients and Moderns at the Academie française, guest editors Dora Epstein Jones and Bryony Roberts present the work of practitioners who explore the contemporary possibilities of history. This Spring/Summer 2014 issue particularly emphasizes drawing that synthesizes technology and precedent, including a Piranesi-inspired digital reimagining of Istanbul and an animated analytic drawing of Borromini’s San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane linked via a QR code in the magazine. In short, Log 31 offers a look into history’s history as a way to circumvent the paradigm of constant mechanical innovation.

 
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