Log 54 - Coauthoring

With the addition of the prefix “co-”, the word authoring is expanded beyond the idea of the singular writer to a multiplicity that includes both people and things. In this issue, guest edited by Ana Miljački and Ann Lui, coauthoring functions as both noun and verb. In architecture, authorship is an uncommon term, and yet books and mass media have created the idea of an architectural author that is singular and does not reflect the teams of people and things that produce buildings. Architecture may always have been a collaborative project, but as this issue shows, the introduction of coauthoring into the terminology of design discourse refers to more than individual credit for a project.