Brutal Realities: Construction, Climate, Housing
Join us for the launch of Log 64: Towards a Newer Brutalism, or the Undecorated Shed. Architecture today must confront three interrelated and brutal realities: the climate crisis, the housing crisis, and the extractive and expensive systems of construction that exacerbate both. In assembling a diverse cast of characters to address these challenges under the rubric of Newer Brutalism, guest editor Emmett Zeifman reminds us that “naming something provokes debate over the definition of terms, sustaining critical discourse and advancing architecture toward a conscious relationship to its history, limits, and potentials.” To mark the launch, and continue the debate, Zeifman and Log editor Cynthia Davidson will moderate a conversation on the ethics and aesthetics of architecture’s collective response to our brutal present, with panelists Neeraj Bhatia, Aaron Forrest and Yasmin Vobis, and Neyran Turan.
The Stout Bookmobile will appear in the Gensler Courtyard with copies of Log 64, as well as a curation of related titles selected by our team and the editors, Cynthia Davidson and Emmett Zeifman.