Commissioned to create a public artwork as part of a housing-project renovation in Copenhagen, poet Morten Søndergaard sought to express the individuality of the residents in counterpoint to the anonymity of the architecture.
There’s a disconnect that runs through your mind when you set foot inside the Forum, an addition to Marvin Hall, the School of Architecture, Design & Planning at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
New Yorkers don’t mind being underground when the surroundings are as welcoming as Rockefeller Center’s concourse or Grand Central Terminal’s Oyster Bar.
I grew up with what Peter Smithson described as a whiff of the powder of Modernism, and with a passion for its architecture – plus a presumption that architecture was women’s work,” Denise Scott Brown said in a recent interview with architecture curator Clare Farrow, recalling her Norman Hanson-designed childhood Johannesburg home and how it helped steer her towards her venerated career.
To mark the occasion of Chilean architect Smiljan Radić being named 2026 Pritzker Prize laureate, we revisit his 2014 interview with RECORD editor in chief Josephine Minutillo discussing the design for that year’s Serpentine Pavilion in London.