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‘The Landscape Architecture of Dan Kiley’ Opens in Brooklyn at ABC Stone

February 8, 2024

On view through April 30, the traveling photography exhibition captures works by the late landscape architect both well-known and more obscure.

Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen Investigates the 'Untimely Moderns' of 20th-Century Architecture

Review 'Untimely Moderns: How Twentieth-Century Architecture Reimagined the Past,' by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

A. Krista Sykes

February 8, 2024

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A book examines Yale University as a former incubator for architects and designers—Louis Kahn, Paul Rudolph, and Eero Saarinen among them—who shared a “penchant for conflating the past, present, and future.”

Alexander Gorlin and Victoria Newhouse Collect Strategies to House the Nation

Excerpt: 'Housing the Nation: Social Equity, Architecture, and the Future of Affordable Housing,' edited by Alexander Gorlin and Victoria Newhouse

Alexander Gorlin, FAIA Victoria Newhouse

February 8, 2024

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In this forthcoming volume, experts take stock of America’s affordable-housing crisis and suggest various solutions to rectify it.

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On Preservation: Heritage, History, and Exclusion

Susan Nigra Snyder George E. Thomas

February 5, 2024

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Forum: Susan Nigra Snyder and George E. Thomas argue that historic districting is a form of social injustice.

‘Reading Room’ Checks Out 24 Architecturally Significant Libraries in the West and Beyond

Excerpt: 'Reading Room: New & Reimagined Libraries of the American West' by Lara Swimmer and Laura Raskin

RECORD Editors

January 31, 2024

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Buildings in Alaska, Southern California, and the Seattle area are among the featured projects in a new book showcasing singular regional libraries.

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‘Building Stories’ Opens at the National Building Museum

Deane Madsen

January 22, 2024

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Curated by Leonard Marcus, the new exhibition uses children’s literature to explore architecture, design, and engineering.

In Light of a Major Expansion, an Exhibition Takes a Historic Look at the Paris Metro

'Métro! Le Grand Paris en mouvement' on view at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine through June 2, 2024

Andrew Ayers

January 15, 2024

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On view at Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, the exhibition traces the transit system's history from the handdug tunnels of the 1890s to the automated boring machines of the 2020s.

John King Untangles the History of American Urbanism Through San Francisco’s Ferry Building

Excerpt: 'Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities' by John King

John King

January 1, 2024

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Conceived during the Gilded Age, the Bay Area landmark was a showcase of civic ambition when it opened in 1898.

A New Biography, Written with Sympathy and Style, Delves into the Life of Vincent Scully

Review: 'Vincent Scully: Architecture, Urbanism, and a Life in Search of Community' by A. Krista Sykes

Kyle Dugdale

January 1, 2024

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A. Krista Sykes establishes the architecture critic and teacher’s place within the narratives of architecture’s pedagogy.

Currents: A New Home for the Whitney's Independent Study Program

New York City

RECORD Editors

December 11, 2023

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The museum's decades-old program gets a permanent space in Roy Lichtenstein’s former home and studio, renovated and expanded by Johnston Marklee.

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‘The Landscape Architecture of Dan Kiley’ Opens in Brooklyn at ABC Stone

Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen Investigates the 'Untimely Moderns' of 20th-Century Architecture

Alexander Gorlin and Victoria Newhouse Collect Strategies to House the Nation

On Preservation: Heritage, History, and Exclusion

‘Reading Room’ Checks Out 24 Architecturally Significant Libraries in the West and Beyond

‘Building Stories’ Opens at the National Building Museum

In Light of a Major Expansion, an Exhibition Takes a Historic Look at the Paris Metro

John King Untangles the History of American Urbanism Through San Francisco’s Ferry Building

A New Biography, Written with Sympathy and Style, Delves into the Life of Vincent Scully

Currents: A New Home for the Whitney's Independent Study Program

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