RECORD’s monthly list of upcoming and ongoing exhibitions, events, and competitions.

Ongoing Exhibitions

Full Circle
Newport, Rhode Island
Through May 3, 2026
Organized by the Preservation Society of Newport County, Full Circle revisits Richard Fleischner’s Sod Maze, a site-specific installation that first appeared at Monumenta, a landmark 1974 outdoor sculpture exhibition. Newly acquired works by Fleischner, including original sketches, notes, and archival materials, shed light on the evolution of Sod Maze. Presented in dialogue with works by fellow Monumenta artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, David Smith, Claes Oldenburg, Alexander Liber­man, and Barnett Newman, the show situates Fleischner’s practice within a wider community of innovators who defined art in the landscape in the second half of the 20th century. The show is on view at the historic Newport mansion Rosecliff. See more at newportmansions.org.

DEVADE: Architecture Amidst Austerity and Disco
Prague
Through May 17, 2026
On view at Prague’s Center for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning, DEVADE examines the aesthetic tension between “austerity” and “disco” that informed the Czech capital’s architecture in the 1990s. The exhibition presents 30 selected buildings constructed in the city between 1989 and 2004 and tracks the circumstances of their creation: the evolving role of professional associations, the arrival of the first DIY superstores, and how political representatives spoke about architecture. The broader social context of the period is presented through a large-format projection composed of archival materials from Czech Television and a collection of contemporary photographs. The show draws on the book of the same name by Matěj Beránek, Jan Bureš, Radek Šrettr Úlehla, and Adéla Vaculíková, published concurrently with the exhibition. See praha.camp.

People Cross Against the Light: Michael Sorkin’s New York
New York City
Through June 26, 2026
Presented by the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, People Cross Against the Light brings together eight architectural projects by Michael Sorkin (1948–2020) conceived for New York City, the primary site of his architectural and urban speculation. The exhibition features more than 100 items, including several models, drawings, sketches, writings, and archival material by Sorkin and collaborators such as Lebbeus Woods and John Young never previously exhibited. On view at Columbia’s Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, the show is curated by Bart-Jan Polman and Jean Im. See arch.columbia.edu.

Encounters: Denise Scott Brown Photographs
New Haven, Connecticut
Through July 3, 2026
In the formative years between 1950 and 1970, Denise Scott Brown found in photography the possibility of looking anew at a fraught world—and of rethinking the architect’s role within it. Presenting a wide-ranging selection of Scott Brown’s photographs, Encounters at the Yale Architecture Gallery explores her crucial but little-studied photographic practice, and raises broader questions about architectural research and pedagogy, the profession’s interest in so-called ordinary places, and the social and political obligations of design. In Encounters, these photographs—many of which are shown as slides in a darkened theater—are paired with work by other photographers, as well as materials drawn from several archives, placing Scott Brown’s work in an expanded field and prompting audiences to rethink its significance for the present. Encounters is based upon the 2025 book of the same name edited by RECORD contributing editor Izzy Kornblatt, which features nearly 400 photographs chosen and sequenced in collaboration with Scott Brown. See architecture.yale.edu.

Jean Prouvé: Inventor of Houses
Saint-Paul, France
Through October 31, 2026
Presented at Brussels-based Fondation CAB’s outpost in Saint-Paul-de-Vence on the French Riviera, this exhibition is dedicated to Paris-born architect and designer Jean Prouvé. The show features a selection of archival photographs from the 1930s through the ’70s, rare prefabricated elements—including panels, sunshades, and doors—and a collection of well-known furnishings designed by Prouvé, from the Cité bed to the Standard chair. Guests can also book overnight stays in one of Prouvé’s famous 6x6 Demountable Houses (1944), relocated to the CAB Saint-Paul-de-Vence campus. This exhibition has been organized and curated by Laffanour | Galerie Downtown. See fondationcab.com.

Maggie’s: Architecture that Cares
Dundee, Scotland
Through November, 2026
Over three decades, a growing network of Maggie’s cancer-care centers across the United Kingdom and beyond have shown that thoughtful buildings can create a much needed space away from the clinical environment of the hospital. To mark the 30th anniversary of Maggie’s, this exhibition—on view at the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Dundee location—explores the organization’s groundbreaking approach to design, bringing together the voices of center visitors and staff with the architects who have designed these buildings. Each Maggie’s center is a unique space, designed by renowned architects, including Zaha Hadid, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Steven Holl, and Frank Gehry, whose Maggie’s Dundee stands as his first completed project in the United Kingdom. See more at vam.ac.uk.

Upcoming Exhibitions

Gerrit Rietveld: Wealth of Sobriety
New York City
May 7–September 2, 2026
In 2018, Dutch photographer Arjan Bronkhorst published the photographic volume Wealth of Sobriety, based on a years-long project of photographing lesser-known—and sometimes all but unknown—houses designed by Utrecht-born architect and industrial designer Gerrit Rietveld (1888–1964). For this forthcoming Center for Architecture exhibition, curated by Bronkhorst and Barry Bergdoll, a selection of the projects published in the book will be on view. See centerforarchitecture.org.

Georgia O’Keeffe: Architecture
Detroit
September 12, 2026–January 3, 2027
Presented by the Detroit Institute of Arts, this exhibition showcases approximately 35 architectural paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe created from the 1920s to the 1960s. Throughout her long career, the American artist found inspiration using close observation of her surroundings, both natural and manmade. She returned many times to architectural subjects with the same style used for her well-known depictions of flowers and desert landscape. Manhattan skyscrapers, rural barns, and the adobe houses of New Mexico were just some of her subjects. See dia.org.

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