The first object that visitors find when they arrive at Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity at New York’s Museum of Modern Art is not a tubular steel chair or a coffee and tea service or any of the other icons that have come to represent the storied German school. Instead, it is a photograph showing a group of students posing inside a stack of gridded shelves taken as a memento when founding director Walter Gropius departed. Photo ' Scott Rudd (top); Estate of Erich Consemüller (bottom) Installation view of Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity at the Museum of Modern Art

Good Design Is Good Business When RECORD first launched the Good Design is Good Business Awards in 1997, attitudes toward the impact of design on profit were changing. According to the editors at the time, corporations and entrepreneurs were just beginning to recognize the benefits of a thoughtful, well-executed workplace or business environment. Today, design excellence is a growing movement, as indicated by the range of this year's nine winning projects. From innovative facilities for nonprofits like London's JW3 and Boston's District Hall to the reconsidered environments of such established industry icons as Macy's Herald Square and McCann New York

The modular aluminum-clad Element House sits lightly on its rugged site, seemingly untethered—a weightless antithesis to the dense adobe architecture ubiquitous in the region.

An Earthly Paradise: In planning, design, and sustainability, the Sea Ranch, now 50 years old, was far ahead of its time. Photo © Jim Alinder Condominium One, in all its rustic majesty, presides over an outcropping above the Pacific. Esherick’s own modest, ingenious house. If you drive north from San Francisco, along the wildly beautiful Sonoma coast beyond the Russian River, you eventually arrive at the Sea Ranch. Stretching along 10 miles of rugged cliffs that hover above the crashing waves of the Pacific, this enclave of weathered weekend houses began as a unique experiment in design. Scattered over 4,000

Sustainability was the theme of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2007 National Convention and Design Exposition. Although green will be a leitmotif at this year’s event in Boston, which is themed “We the People,” the AIA hopes that from the standpoint of producing less waste and carbon emissions, the conference will be its greenest yet. RECORD’s news editor, James Murdock, recently chatted with Christopher Gribbs, Assoc. AIA, senior director of conventions, to learn about some of the AIA’s sustainable strategies—and its city selection criteria. Photo courtesy American Institute of Architects Christopher Gribbs, Assoc. AIA James Murdock: First of all,

If you come to Boston expecting to see a city full of buildings that date back to Colonial America, you will probably be disappointed. While there are a few surviving examples of traditional New England architecture, Boston has undergone several face lifts over the years. And now, with the completion of the Big Dig and the removal of its old elevated highway, it’s in the midst of yet another. Here we present ten architectural gems that embody different periods of Boston’s history. Harrison Gray Otis House Photo courtesy Historic New England Massachusetts State House Photo courtesy Greater Boston CVB/ FayFoto

Kresge Auditorium Photo courtesy MIT/Donna Coveney Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Photo courtesy Harvard University Christian Science Center Photo courtesy Christian Science Center John Hancock Tower Photo courtesy Greater Boston CVB/ FayFoto Institute of Contemporary Art Photo © Peter Vanderwarker 6 – Kresge Auditorium As MIT grew during the 1950s, it hired an all-star line up of architects including Eero Saarinen, who designed the campus’s Kresge Auditorium. The building’s striking dome-shaped roof is actually a segment of a sphere laid on its side so that it touches the ground at three points. Rising to a height of 50 feet,

Boston's young and mid-career practices find common ground in their training and research-based design. The Next Wave Boston’s next wave of architects is nationally, culturally, and ideologically diverse. They are drawn to the city by its schools and united in their intensive quest for formal and material expression. Judging by precedent, one would expect to see these firms blossom in the 2010s and beyond—but some are already breaking the mold. Photo © Jeff Goldberg/Esto Related Links: Amherst Residence by Anmahian Winton Grant/Fulton Recital Hall by Brian Healy Architects Fleet Library by office dA House in New England by office dA

The Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), the agency responsible for planning and economic development in Boston, is presiding over a major urban transformation. Despite the economic slowdown, cranes dot the city’s skyline with roughly 65 large projects under construction and dozens more in the pipeline. Also moving forward is the integration of the Rose Kennedy Greenway—a mile-long stretch of parks and civic amenities taking shape along the route of the old elevated Interstate 93—with surrounding city blocks. Photo courtesy Boston Redevelopment Authority John Palmieri, director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority (left). Kairos Shen, Boston’s chief city planner and BRA director of

TSB: What’s the status of the proposal to move City Hall? Image courtesy Massachusetts Turnpike Authority The Big Dig became the longest and most expensive construction highway project in U.S. history, totaling nearly $15 billion. Following its completion in 2003, the old elevated highway was razed and, in its place, The Rose Fitzgerald Greenway network of parks was constructed View images of threatened historic buildings in Boston. View images of the "Big Dig" and the Rose Kennedy Greenway. KS: There are several components to it. The first one is an evaluation of the entire portfolio of municipal buildings. There are