Last night, the winds howled. We awoke to find that trees had fallen when velocities reached 66 miles per hour, and that outside Rochester, a woman’s death was attributable to the onslaught.
The Walt Disney Concert Hall, which recently opened in Los Angeles, culminates and synthesizes several strong directions in contemporary architecture: a new freedom, unleashed by digital technology; society’s need for cultural expression; Los Angeles’s advancing urban trajectory; Frank Gehry’s personal maturity as artist and architect, and the increasing mastery of the men and women who practice with him.
Now that we’ve shaken off the dust from the spate of annual summer conventions, it’s time to take a breather and reflect on which conferences made a difference for us, and which were merely exercises in stamina.
Weeks later, the firepower lingers. Out of the barrage of coverage from the war in Iraq, one graphic image stands out: that of the young soldier triumphantly draping the head of the statue of Saddam Hussein with the American flag.
Architectural Record loves the single-family house. For almost 50 years, since we published architect Ulrich Franzen’s own home near Rye, New York, in 1956, this magazine has promoted Record Houses as laboratories for design.