&lCalls for more Blackness in architecture schools can be simplistic,&r writes architect Darell Wayne Fields, guest editor of Log 57. Well-meaning equity and inclusion programs often simply &lassociate the mere presence of Black bodies with institutional change.&r In Log 57, a 208-page thematic issue titled Black is . . . an’ Black ain’t . . ., 29 authors explore the complexities of Blackness as it relates to aesthetics and architectural pedagogy. As Fields notes, &lIn calling for more Blackness, I, for one, am calling for more Black methodology. An inherent characteristic of [which] is a measurement of difference.&r
To that end, Log 57 gathers essays and reflections on architectural pedagogies, both in academia and in practice, by Sean Canty, Michelle JaJa Chang, Ajay Manthripragada, and Mónica Ponce de León, among others. Projects by young designers for whom methodological concepts of Black Signification and bricolage are central are presented in a four-color section, and built works and a preservation effort channel difference as a generative force in real-world communities. &lThis work demonstrates what is possible when methodological change is real,&r writes Fields. &lReal change, like Blackness, makes us nervous. Black difference, however, is revolutionary.&r
Contents
Chelsea Jno Baptiste, Savannah Cheung & Sahil Mohan, &lVERSatile Method&r
Tamara Birghoffer, &lHouse for a House&r
Kenneth Brabham Jr., &lA Room for Jacob Lawrence&r
Alex Cabana, &lFuller’s Spine&r
Barrington Calvert, &lSpeakeasy for the Revolution&r
Barrington Calvert & Nick Meehan, &lPreservation Operations: A Guided Tour of American Legion Post 218&r
Sean Canty, &lAll the Things You Are: Latency as an Aesthetic Practice&r
Brian Cavanaugh & Darell Wayne Fields, &lUniversity of Oregon Black Cultural Center&r
Michelle JaJa Chang, &lShadows and Other Things&r
Eunice Chung, &lBigness and Blackness&r
Matt Conway, &lDrunk Datums&r
Melinda Denn, &lA House for Rosie Lee Tompkins&r
Nitzan Farfel, &lA House Is a Brothel&r
Darell Wayne Fields, &lPrologue to a Black Pedagogy&r
Rachel Ghindea, &lHouse for the Dead&r
Mitzy González, &lNepantla: An Altar for Gloria E. Anzaldua&r
Bernardo Guerra Jr., &lAsylum-Proximity&r
Kaleb Houston & Hannah Terry, &lBlack Architecture 101&r
Reese Lewis, &lThe Speculative Devaluation of 270 Park Avenue&r
Ajay Manthripragada, &lA Double Untying&r
Sydney Rose Maubert, <he gate: the erotics of Black worship&r
Nick Meehan, &lHouse for No One&r
Christina Moushoul, &lA House for Sitcoms&r
Rudabeh Pakravan, &lBuilding Fronts&r
Mónica Ponce de León, &lModest Ambitions&r
Elizabeth Grace Siqueira, &lHouse for Friars&r
Eunice Takahaye Slanwa, &lA House for Mary and Ayak&r
