This Berkeley, California-based practice led by Kristen Sidell and Rudebah Pakravan explores architecture’s fundamental elements.

The Czech firm made a name for itself with innovative ways to finance and realize projects, including the adaptive reuse of structures ready for demolition.

Enthralled by the amorphous, Yong Ju Lee has completed a number of complex installations in and around Seoul.

The principal of this North Carolina firm mentors a new generation of architects while producing a solid portfolio of built work and ambitious speculative projects.

Philadelphia-based Jeremy Avellino puts architectural inventiveness to low-carbon purposes in a series of adaptive reuse and Passive House projects.

New York-based Hou de Sousa brings colorful refinement and a sense of play to interiors and interactive installations.

Mariana Ordóñez Grajales and Jesica Amescua Carrera champion a grassroots approach to architecture working for, and with, the underserved population of Mexico’s remote villages.

RECORD interrogates the ways that racism is embedded in the profession—from the whiteness of our Eurocentric history and built environment to education, licensure, and practice.

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