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Interview with Designer-Activist De Nichols

September 29, 2020

The St. Louis–based artist, educator, and 2020 Harvard GSD Loeb Fellow has been using her “visual voice” to condemn racial injustices for over a decade.

Interview with Page & Turnbull's Ruth Todd

Miriam Sitz

August 20, 2020

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The president of the San Francisco–based architecture, planning, and preservation firm spoke with RECORD about the complexities of preserving cultural heritage.

Interview with Glenn LaRue Smith

Kara Mavros

August 7, 2020

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The Washington, D.C.–based landscape architect speaks with RECORD about his career and latest initiative: the Black Landscape Architects Network.

Interview with Walter Hood on History and Race in Landscape Design

Cathleen McGuigan

August 4, 2020

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Editor in chief Cathleen McGuigan speaks with the landscape designer about his work in the public realm and his forthcoming book, 'Black Landscapes Matter.'

Three Architects Discuss Whiteness and Racism in the Built Environment

Cathleen McGuigan

July 30, 2020

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RECORD convened a panel of three professionals in practice and education—Mabel O. Wilson, Mario Gooden, and Justin Garrett Moore—to explore how racism has shaped, and operated within, the profession of architecture.

Interview with NOMA President Kimberly Dowdell

Miriam Sitz

April 20, 2020

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The Chicago-based architect spoke with RECORD about how systemic disparities have exacerbated COVID-19's effect on communities of color—and how the pandemic’s economic repercussions might impact the next generation of designers.

Interview with Earth Day Organizer Denis Hayes

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

April 20, 2020

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For the 50^th anniversary of Earth Day, RECORD interviews Denis Hayes, principal national organizer of the first event in 1970.

Interview with Julie Hiromoto

The chair of COTE talks with RECORD about her recent testimony before a congressional subcommittee.

Miriam Sitz

February 26, 2020

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The architect testified before a congressional subcommittee about a bill that will affect the design of new federal buildings.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite captured this image of smoke and flames from bushfires in Australia on December 31, 2019.

Interview with Ian Weir

The Australian architect and researcher speaks with RECORD about designing for wildfires.

Miriam Sitz

January 17, 2020

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A practicing architect and researcher at Queensland University of Technology in Australia, Weir speaks with RECORD about wildfire-adapted architecture.