Considering the many questions of how we live today, Log 65: House and Home asks: Where are we at home? What makes a house a home? Does the process of building ever cease, or does it become the activity of dwelling? The issue features ten novel residential projects – both proposed and built – in full color, with accompanying texts by Daisy Ames, Peder Anker and Mitchell Joachim, Preston Scott Cohen, Thomas Daniell, Joe Day, Jon Lott, Mónica Ponce de León, Maria Alessandra Segantini, Kazuyo Sejima, and Bryan Young and Noah Marciniak. Not to be excluded, the “Average American House” converses with “Theoretical Discourse” in a dialogue stitched together by Taylor Dover. Building on the tension between developers and dwellers, Pier Vittorio Aureli and Maria Shéréhazade Giudici, Jolanda Devalle, Maya Freeman, and Alicia Pozniak speculate on how the market affects housing while Eric Höweler studies the spatial interplay of work and home. Architect Benedetta Tagliabue discusses how to evoke the feeling of home in public spaces, as do developers Rodrigo Rivero Borrell and Chris Murphy. Hilary Sample, Nahyun Hwang and David Eugin Moon tend to the domestic labor that goes into keeping house. Andrew Witt traces how the introduction of electricity animated the house while Jordan Hicks and Emanuele Coccia watch the ways houses are renovated and homes are redefined both on television and through laws. Excerpts from Frederick Kiesler’s Magic Architecture, Mark Jarzombek and Vikramaditya Prakash’s test of a Reyner Banham proposal, and Sylvia Lavin’s remembrance of Frank O. Gehry all look back on how architects have associated houses with societies, and Fernanda Canales looks ahead to the ways architects could invent places not just for living but for living together.
