Log 64: Toward a Newer Brutalism, or the Undecorated Shed

As guest editor Emmett Zeifman wrote in his prompt for Toward a Newer Brutalism, or the Undecorated Shed, “Log 64 appropriates New Brutalism as a found theory of architecture that looks like exactly what it is made of.” To wit, Matthew Au, David Eskenazi, Mira Henry, Mireia Luzárraga and Débora Mesa discuss the assembly of materials, while material flammability is the concern of Dan Spiegel and Megumi Aihara. Clark Thenhaus manipulates 3D printed concrete, Zak Garone Leazer and Fernando Garrido Carreras interrogate stone, Salmaan Craig addresses the properties of heat, and Andrea Machado Romero and Eric Kyle Cheung pose maintenance as a design question. The envelopes of heating and cooling plants are analyzed by Daniel Jacobs and Brittany Utting; Mohamed Sharif heralds SO – IL’s rejection of the double-loaded apartment building corridor; and Anna Neimark celebrates Gehry Associates return to a Brutalist architecture in homes for veterans in West Los Angeles. Housing is also the focus o