The Art of Designing for Culture
Two radically different approaches exemplify the latest architecture for new institutions.
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Cathleen McGuigan
Cathleen McGuigan is editor-in-chief of Architectural Record. She is responsible for leading the award-winning editorial team to deliver thorough coverage of news, projects, and practice issues to architects, design professionals, and building product manufacturers. Her broad experience as an editor, journalist, and critic provides strong leadership for this integrated print and digital portfolio, as well as strikingly relevant professional and cultural content for readers across the globe. Cathleen joined RECORD in 2011. Previously an architecture critic and arts editor at Newsweek, she has more than three decades of cultural journalism experience. Cathleen’s work has also been published in The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, Harper’s Bazaar, and Rolling Stone. A Michigan native, she serves on several design juries and is a former adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
ARTICLES
A Modest Proposal
The Pritzker Architecture Prize is 40 years old. How could it adapt to a changing world?
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The Past Imperfect
How should we confront the tough questions around preservation, adaptive reuse, and the future of place?
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It Was the Best of Times...and the Worst
The profession was roiled by news last year, while new projects exemplified the beauty that architecture has to offer our changing world.
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The #MeToo Movement, One Year Later
A new survey from RECORD and ENR gives a snapshot of the experience of sexual harassment in the architecture, engineering, and construction industries.
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The Housing Crisis
The economy is booming, but the widening gap between what people earn and what they must pay for a home is a severe and growing problem.
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