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The dean of Syracuse University’s School of Architecture talks to RECORD on the occasion of his first midterm review. Photo © J. Seo Michael A. Speaks Earlier this year, Michael A. Speaks took over as dean of Syracuse University’s School of Architecture. As dean of the College of Design at the University of Kentucky, Speaks focused his school's energy into a series of multi-stakeholder community revitalization projects, not unlike the legacy left by his Syracuse predecessor, Mark Robbins, whose tenure was defined by numerous efforts to revive the Rust Belt city. On the occasion of Speaks's first midterm review, he spoke

An exhibition at New York City’s Museum of Arts and Design spotlights the craft behind digitally fabricated art, architecture, and design.

Frieze Projects performance by Lili Reynaud-Dewar Greek architect Andreas Angelidakis has a penchant for designing exhibitions that are all-encompassing experiences. For the show The System of Objects, on view at the Deste Foundation in Athens through November 30, the Sci-ARC and Columbia alum curated a hybrid art and design exhibition from the vast holdings of mega-collector Dakis Joannou and then designed a maze-like warren of interior spaces for the work to inhabit. “There is a sense of a theme park,” he said just after the opening in May. “People tell me that they get lost, both literally—they don’t know where

A team from the Vienna Institute of Technology, competing in the U.S. for the first time, took home top honors in the Department of Energy’s sixth Solar Decathlon.

The BMW Guggenheim Lab in Mumbai. It’s been quite the ride for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and German automaker BMW Group: two years ago the organizations embarked on a global road trip to document how people think about the challenges their cities face, and brainstorm solutions. The results were unveiled last week in Participatory City: 100 Urban Trends from the BMW Guggenheim Lab on view at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Part policy think tank, part happening, part forum, the Lab set up a pop-up space in which residents of three cities—New York City, Berlin, and Mumbai—could

Photo courtesy Wikipedia Creative Commons An aerial view of Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey, shows its context within an oval campus, surrounded by seas of parking lots. Ever since the Eero Saarinen–designed Bell Labs building in central New Jersey closed six years ago, its fate has hung in the balance. Now the iconic edifice that was once the site of enormous technological innovation will re-emerge as a civic center for the surrounding town of Holmdel. Photo © Ezra Stoller/Esto The atrium of the building, as it looked when it was completed. Somerset Development purchased the 1.9-million-square-foot building and the

A small number of very large high-profile projects have long dominated construction starts for arenas and stadia—a fact that accounts for the erratic performance of the sports facilities market. Click the image above to view a full presentation of these stats [PDF].

For the Architectural League of New York's 2013 Beaux Arts Ball, Situ Studio designed a suspended pavilion within Hunt & Hunt's 69th Regiment Armory (1906). 

The 25 films in this year's festival focus on urbanism and the legacy of Modernism. The Human Scale, screening at the Architecture & Design Film Festival on October 16.The theme of this year’s Architecture & Design Film Festival, running in New York October 16-20, is urbanism—a subject that never seems to go out of style, especially with non-fiction filmmakers. The scale of city life, the rituals, struggles, triumphs, and failures, create innumerable stories (eight million in New York City alone) so monumental that they must be captured; so fleeting that only the immediacy of film can do them justice. But

After receiving masters of architecture degrees from Princeton University in 2010, Julian Rose and Garrett Ricciardi formed a partnership with a name—Formlessfinder—that reflects their shared theoretical bent.