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The Destructive Rebirth of the Pyramid of Tirana

February 27, 2024

Forum: MVRDV’s transformation of the pyramid into a symbol of Albanian progress misses its mark, argues Skender Luarasi.

Robert A. M. Stern Identifies 15 Postmodern Landmarks-in-Waiting

Death by Distaste: Preserving Postmodernism’s Legacy

Robert A.M. Stern, FAIA

February 9, 2024

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As an increasing number of Postmodern buildings face the threat of demolition, architect Robert A. M. Stern assembles a list of 15 "landmarks-in-waiting."

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

Anthony Paletta

February 8, 2024

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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.