Log 12 follows on the critically acclaimed Log 11 by turning from metacritique to paired and sequenced critiques of buildings and architectural concepts such as scripting and mapping. The issue includes critiques of OMA's proposed Waterfront City in Dubai, Coop Himmel(b)lau s BMW Welt in Munich, and SANAA s New Museum in New York City, plus highly nuanced turns into transcoded indexicality, architecture s appropriation of geography, elegance as a form of propriety/sobriety, and Venice and the time of the meander (by way of Le Corbusier and Manfredo Tafuri). Authors Mark Dorrian, Albert Pope, Teresa Stoppani, Marco Frascari, Kurt Forster, Michael Cadwell, and Marc Angélil.