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LOG 57: THE VERSATILE METHOD

Issue: Black is . . . an’ Black ain’t . . .

Status: Published
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Log 57 gathers essays and reflections on architectural pedagogies, both in academia and in practice, by VERS, Sean Canty, Michelle JaJa Chang, Ajay Manthripragada, and Mónica Ponce de León, among others.

VERS is a design collaborative built on the premise that the most honest design emerges from the friction between disciplines, identities, and methods. Founded by Chelsea Jno Baptiste, Savannah Cheung, and Sahil Mohan, VERS operates through bricolage — not as aesthetic, but as epistemology. By recombining signs, tools, and cultural fragments across architecture, fashion, web, and music, the practice locates design authorship in the space between things: between bodies and structures, between identities and institutions, between what a field permits and what it refuses to imagine.

This essay traces how three emerging architects — each navigating the margins of a heavily regulated, historically exclusionary profession — chose collaboration as both resistance and method. It is a reflection on what it means to practice before you are permitted to, and to use that practice as the very instrument of your formation.