A Seattle-based architecture firm deftly orchestrates a new site for the Louisiana Children’s Museum by a lagoon in the Big Easy.

A large development outside of Houston provides recreational features while managing flooding naturally.

These projects provide healthy escapes, demonstrate sensitivity to local conditions, and combat the effects of a warming planet.

RECORD convened a panel of three professionals in practice and education—Mabel O. Wilson, Mario Gooden, and Justin Garrett Moore—to explore how racism has shaped, and operated within, the profession of architecture.