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Architectural Record’s first Innovation Conference outside of New York City was aptly held in Los Angeles, a city known for blurring boundaries between urbanism, architecture, and the landscape.

Architectural Record will bring its acclaimed Innovation Conference to Los Angeles for the first time.

The present moment may be full of uncertainties, but this month, RECORD is focusing on the future.

For the Architectural League of New York's 2013 Beaux Arts Ball, Situ Studio designed a suspended pavilion within Hunt & Hunt's 69th Regiment Armory (1906). 

Photo © Steve Hill Elizabeth Diller, founding principal of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, discussed the low- and high-tech aspects of the firm's projects during her keynote. At the start of a day devoted to the connections between architecture and new technology, Elizabeth Diller, of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, urged architects to continue to use “the whole repertoire of old-fashioned tools that are not really getting replaced, just supplemented.” She described the firm’s best-known project, the High Line, as low-tech, and said the popularity of Blur—its first building “for a mass audience”—could be explained by the structure’s simplicity. She conceded that one

On Thursday, October 3, in New York City, the editors of Architectural Record will present its 11th annual Innovation Conference, a daylong event featuring presentations from architects, urban planners and other leaders in design.

The Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) is looking to raise the profile of the Smithsonian’s lesser-known spaces.

In a time of 24/7 connectivity and cloud computing, it is essential for architects to make room for “forms of low-tech creativity,” said Jeanne Gang, principal of Chicago-based Studio Gang Architects, describing both the way she designs (by hand as well as by computer) and the materials she uses in her buildings.

I recently had the opportunity to pose some questions to Frank Gehry at a small event hosted by McGraw-Hill Construction, in Washington, D.C.