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Grim Climate Report Calls for Drastic, Immediate Action

Effects of climate crisis already felt by billions globally, report says

March 1, 2022

The impact of global warming has already been felt by billions of people around the globe, according to an alarming new report from the IPCC.

DESIGN:ED Podcast: Bjarke Ingels On How His New Company Is Building Pathways to Affordable Housing

The BIG founder and his partners at Nabr discuss the shifting landscape of the American city

RECORD Editors

February 28, 2022

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Bjarke Ingels, Nick Chim and Roni Bahar join RECORD's DESIGN:ED podcast discuss affordable housing solutions to issues facing cities today through San Jose’s SoFA One.

March 2022 Editor's Letter: Taking History Into the Future

Cathleen McGuigan

February 28, 2022

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Preservation matters, not only for saving architecture’s valuable legacy but to create richly textured urban neighborhoods that enhance the civic realm.

Interview with Designer, Engineer, and Educator Felecia Davis

Davis works at the intersection of architecture, textiles, design, and technology

Ilana Herzig

February 25, 2022

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The director of Penn State’s SOFTLAB and founding member of the Black Reconstruction Collective explores designing responsive textiles for inhabitable spaces.

MASS Design Group's Michael Murphy Remembers Dr. Paul Farmer

The MASS Design Group founding principal on how Farmer shaped his life and work

Michael Murphy

February 25, 2022

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The founding principal of MASS Design Group reflects on how Farmer, the firm's first client, shaped his life and work.

Marlon Blackwell Design Credit Resolved in Arkansas Casino Dispute

Settlement gives architect the authorship in lawsuit over the design of the Saracen Casino Resort

Izzy Kornblatt

February 24, 2022

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The settlement gives the architect authorship in a lawsuit that raised questions about the limitations of intellectual property rights in architecture.

Tribute: Dr. Paul Farmer (1959-2022), MASS Design Group’s First Client

As a founder of Partners In Health, Farmer transformed public health facilities in impoverished communities

Cathleen McGuigan

February 24, 2022

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MASS Design Group worked with Dr. Farmer, a global public heath advocate and a founder of Partners In Health, in his fight for quality healthcare as a basic human right.

Architectural Billings Score Holds

The AIA's data shows that new inquiries decreased from December to January while contracts went up

Pansy Schulman

February 23, 2022

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The slow in architectural billings is likely due to ongoing staffing constraints and supply-chain related delays in the construction sector.

Architect Greta Ferušić, Survivor of Auschwitz and the Sarajevo Siege, Dies at 97

Ferušić’s extraordinary life was documented in the 1997 film "Greta" by Bosnian filmmaker Haris Pasovic

Pansy Schulman

February 23, 2022

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Born in 1924 to a Jewish family in northern Serbia, Ferušić enrolled in architecture school less than a year after her liberation from Auschwitz and would become the first female dean at the University of Sarajevo’s architecture school.

Nature Becomes a Collaborator at Neri Oxman's New Exhibition

Review: "Nature × Humanity: Oxman Architects" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Clare Jacobson

February 23, 2022

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In a time when building construction is contributing to multiple global crises, the American-Israeli designer posits that nature has much to teach us.