October 4–November 18, 2022
Log 56 is the cataLog for Model Behavior, a group exhibition of models, architectural and otherwise, curated by the Anyone Corporation and presented by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, in New York City. The exhibition, which ran October 4–November 18, 2022, questioned the role of the model in projecting or eliciting social behavior. To do so, different types of architectural models were set in dialogue with models from science, film, fashion, and toys to explore and compare their behaviors.
In addition to documenting the 55 exhibited works with color images and project descriptions, the 160-page cataLog includes essays by curator Cynthia Davidson; by architecture theorists Jörg H. Gleiter, Kiel Moe, and Christophe Van Gerrewey; and by art historian Annabel Jane Wharton.
The 55 works include projects specially commissioned for the exhibition by AGENCY Architecture, Besler & Sons, Höweler + Yoon, Aleksandra Jaeschke, Office Kovacs, and NEMESTUDIO; research projects by Certain Measures, Ensamble Studio, Forensic Architecture, MOS, and N H D M Architects; and artworks by Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Gonzalo Fonseca, Ekow Nimako, and Isamu Noguchi.
Erin Besler and Ian Besler have written, "The beauty and oddity of the scale model lie in the idea that you can project yourself into it." Through the cataLog's compiled essays and projects, Model Behavior asks, for the first time, What kinds of behaviors do models project on us?
