At Home in Confrontation

Confrontations collided in the concluding fifth session of Log 47: Confronting Carbon Form, organized by Anyone Corporation and moderated by scholars Elisa Iturbe, Stanley Cho, and Alican Taylan. Returning participants Lizzie Yarina of MIT, Brittany Utting and Albert Pope of Rice Architecture, Matthew Soules of University of British Columbia, Keith Krumwiede of California College of the Arts, and Cara Daggett(“the lone non-architect,” in her words) of Virginia Tech, closed the series with an ambitious conversation that ranged from a critique of urban enclaves to tendencies toward binaries. Yarina and Utting mentioned mega developments. Krumwiede and Pope focused on suburban sprawl. The group discussed the extent to which such separatist spaces are corrigible. Daggett brought up desire and stuckness. The concept of typology was contested.

But while the discursive ghosts of well-worn debates occasionally lingered, Carbon Form’s participants are interested in what lays ahead. Soules challenged the discipline to alter its record of doing “a relatively poor job at holdin…