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Breathing Space
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‘Breathing Space’ Explores Respiratory Modernism as a Force That Shapes Buildings and How We Live With Them

Review: ‘Breathing Space: The Architecture of Pneumatic Beings’ by Tim Altenhof
Russell Fortmeyer
Russell Fortmeyer
January 13, 2026
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Author Tim Altenhof has 'given us an excellent history lesson that carves out a small place for breathing,' writes Russell Fortmeyer.
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Sick Architecture
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‘Sick Architecture’ Probes the Relationship Between the Built Environment and Health and Wellness

‘Sick Architecture’ edited by Beatriz Colomina with Nick Axel and Guillermo S. Arsuaga
January 12, 2026
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Read an excerpt from editor Beatriz Colomina's introduction to the book, which features 36 essays on topics ranging from mosquito mitigation to toxic masculinity.
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A New Book Theorizes Mannerism as an Inescapable Stage in the Creative Process

‘The Mannerist Phase in Architecture: On Early Style’ by Lina Malfona
December 31, 2025
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Read an excerpt from the intriguingly titled eighth chapter, ‘Chunky, Bizarre, Sophisticated: The Peter Pan Syndrome.’
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‘Incorporating Architects’ Forensically Documents the Rise of Megafirm AECOM

‘Incorporating Architects: How American Architecture Became a Practice of Empire’ by Aaron Cayer
December 30, 2025
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Aaron Cayer’s book traces the history of one of the first built-environment companies to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
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A New Book Argues for the Poetic Potential of Reusing Architectural Waste

‘Reuse of Architectural Components’ by Bailey Bestul
December 25, 2025
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‘Reuse of Architectural Components’ proposes a circular construction industry in which the reuse of waste materials could provide new aesthetic and symbolic value.
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The First Biography of Ella Briggs Tells the Story of an Extraordinary Woman and Early Modern Architect

‘Finding Ella Briggs: The Life and Work of an Unconventional Architect’ edited by Despina Stratigakos and Elana Shapira
December 24, 2025
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The book compiles essays by 15 historians documenting the largely forgotten yet remarkable life story of the Vienna-born architect and interior designer.
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Brooklyn Tower
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‘New York 2020’ Concludes Robert A.M. Stern’s Six-Volume Series Documenting the City’s Built Environment

‘New York 2020: Architecture and Urbanism at the Beginning of a New Century,’ by Robert A.M. Stern, David Fishman, and Jacob Tilove
Mark Foster Gage
December 9, 2025
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The colossal new book is 'sweeping in its detail, insightful in its selections, and astonishing in its research' writes architect Mark Foster Gage.
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Holliday Architectural Books 2025
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RECORD’s Editors Share Their Holiday Book Picks

RECORD Editors
December 8, 2025
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Ideal for gifting (or keeping), our selections include the back-in-print classic ‘Le Corbusier: Le Grand’ and the psychedelic fever dream of ‘Archigram,’ the magazine.
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The Belgian Friendship Building
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A New Book Chronicles the Strange Saga of Belgium’s Contribution to the 1939 New York World’s Fair

‘The Belgian Friendship Building: From the New York World’s Fair to a Virginia HBCU’ by Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Katherine M. Kuenzli, and Bryan Clark Green
November 19, 2025
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An obscure Modernist landmark, the Belgian Friendship Building has lived many lives since being reconstructed on the campus of a Virginia HBCU in the 1940s.
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National Archives in Hangzhou, China
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In a New Book, Béatrice Grenier Ponders the Evolving Role of Cultural Infrastructure

‘Architecture for Culture: Rethinking Museums’ by Béatrice Grenier
October 13, 2025
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Read an excerpt from ‘Architecture for Culture: Rethinking Museums’ by the director of curatorial affairs at Fondation Cartier in Paris.
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