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Frank Lloyd Wright, High and Low New York's Museum of Modern Art offers a fresh look at the influential architect's ideas for skyscrapers and city planning.
Photo © Ezra Stoller/Esto
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Bridge Over Troubled Waters It's time for New York and other cities to connect urban planning to social equity.
Image courtesy Related Companies
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The Legacy of Mayor Mike After 12 years of astonishing change in New York, Bloomberg earns mixed marks.
Photo © Flickr User Noel Y.C.
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Observations: Character Development At RECORD, we frequently find ourselves doing double takes to determine whether an image is a photograph or an uncannily lifelike rendering. |
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Rumble in the Urban Jungle A recent book by New Urbanist authors revives an old battle with Landscape Urbanism. Andres Duany and Emily Talen Respond to Michael Sorkin's Review of Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents: Dissimulating the Sustainable City.
Photo © Iwan Baan
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Urban Oases Projects from mobile markets to full-on farms are greening America's food deserts.
Photo © Will Crocker
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Exhibition: L.A.'s Future in the Rearview Mirror The Getty wrangles a herd of exhibitions on postwar architecture and design.
Photo © Ed Ruscha/J. Paul Getty Museum
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Build Nothing and They Will Come An exhibition at SFMOMA examines the work but not the legacy of Lebbeus Woods.
Image Courtesy Estate of Lebbeus Woods
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The Post-Sandy Grid: Unequal Yet Superior? A two-tier power system could deliver electricity more dependably to everyone.
Illustration © Andrew DeGraff
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New York Public Library Threatened Foster's proposal injects false notes into a historic structure.
Photo © Melanzane 1013
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The Unreliable Archive Inside Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence.
Photo © Refik Anadol/Innocence Foundation
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Working All the Angles Daniel Libeskind adds to his Jewish Museum Berlin.
Photo © BitterBredt
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Learning the Hard Way What are some of the lessons that Sandy teaches us about the way we build? |
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Expanding Universities Plans proceed apace at Harvard, Columbia, Penn, Yale, and Princeton.
Image courtesy University of Pennsylvania
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Plays Well with Others Report card: Zaha Hadid's MAXXI turns out to be a good place to see art.
Photo © Iwan Baan
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All Quiet on the Eco Front Why isn't sustainability a hot issue on the campaign trail?
Illustration by Brian Stauffer
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Masters of the Neighborhood Goldman Sachs shapes the spaces around its NYC headquarters.
Photo courtesy Preston Scott Cohen
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Taking the Pulse of Architecture David Chipperfield looks for common ground at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale.
Photo © Michael Moran
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Welcome to Corporate Kindergarten Playful design is taking over the office, but are we really having that much fun?
Photo © Lawrence Anderson
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There Goes the Neighborhood The Stedelijk's jarring addition strikes discord in Amsterdam's cultural enclave.
Photo © John Lewis Marshall
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Perspective Commentary Websites are a vital marketing tool. Unless you're a superstar design firm, steer clear of archispeak and tricky graphics. Users want a site that is clean and simple. |
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Material Man Thomas Heatherwick’s unconventional approach flouts design orthodoxy.
Photo courtesy Heatherwick Studio
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All in the Family: Architectural DNA Where there’s an architect, there are probably a few more—from the same gene pool.
Photo courtesy Taal Safdie
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Book Reviews RECORD weighs in on new architecture titles from surveys and monographs to history and theory texts.
Pictured: Mies. Edited by Kevin Bone. By Detlef Mertins. Phaidon Press, March 2014, 542 pages, $150.
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VOTE: Who Should Succeed Paul Goldberger as Resident Architecture Critic at The New Yorker? The news that Paul Goldberger is leaving his position as architecture critic at The New Yorker to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair has us all speculating about who—if anyone—will replace him. Who do you think should succeed him as architecture critic at the weekly?
Photo © Architectural Record
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Perspective Drawing Is the proliferation of sophisticated tools for modeling, parametric design, and digital fabrication making the practice of sketching by hand obsolete?
Image © Soo-Hyun Kim, Yale Universityo
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