We have talked at you for 116 years. Every month, the members of the Architectural Record audience receive our curatorial choices—the architectural projects, the types of buildings and plans, the interiors, the houses, the lighting, the technical questions, and the cultural happenings, that we, the editorial staff, choose for you. Consistently, in correspondence and at live events, we listen as best we can, then attempt simultaneously to stimulate and inform. Each month, we try to bring you the latest, the best, the most provocative, as well as the highest examples of architectural work, domestically and around the world. You regularly respond to our choices, usually positively.

Sometimes, we editors are accused of being too “New York–centric,” or too “bicoastal” (all California and the East Coast), or favoring “starchitecture”—that is, purveying the work of a few, select names that constantly reappear in the pages of print media and online. You have told us, “Our clients would never let us get away with the projects you show,” or, “The kind of work you’re publishing doesn’t match the kind of work we do in the Midwest.” We’ve heard that, too.