Although attendance this year was once again virtual for Architectural Record’s Innovation Conference, the event fostered a great sense of community—prompting lively dialogue between presenters and viewers alike. This year’s theme was “Reimagining the City,” and the audience of thousands tuned in live, everywhere from rural America to Europe and Asia. A recurrent theme across the two-day conference was a focus on sustainable and social issues and architects’ role in improving city life for all.
The first keynote speaker, architect David Chipperfield, addressed the business of architecture, from profits to projects, when talking with RECORD editor-in-chief Cathleen McGuigan, and then shifted to sustainability. “The first part of any solution is to acknowledge and recognize the issue (the climate crisis) and take it seriously,” he said, and then asked rhetorically, “Where does architecture hold back rising sea levels or droughts though?”
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