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Cathleen McGuigan

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.

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Cathleen McGuigan

March 2021 Editor's Letter: Civic Lesson

How to rebuild successful, diverse cities. And how not to.
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Cathleen McGuigan
March 2, 2021
One Comment
Beyond Covid lies the opportunity to rebuild the civic realm in innovative ways around infrastructure, transportation, housing, health care, and public space—and in the process, seriously address equity, access, and sustainability.
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White House

President Biden Overturns Trump’s Executive Order on Classical Architecture

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Cathleen McGuigan
February 25, 2021
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President Biden ordered the revocation of former President Trump's Executive Order titled "Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture."


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DSR London

Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s $370 Million UK Concert Hall Cancelled

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Cathleen McGuigan
February 18, 2021
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The City of London cited today’s “unprecedented circumstances” in ending plans to build a new home for the London Symphony Orchestra.


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Leslie Robertson

Leslie Robertson, 1928–2021

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Cathleen McGuigan
February 16, 2021
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Revered and beloved by the architects with whom he collaborated, Robertson, who died on February 11, may remain best known for engineering the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) with architect Minoru Yamasaki.


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Cathleen McGuigan

February Editor's Letter: The People’s House

The violent assault on the U.S. Capitol attacked the democratic symbolism that our most significant architecture conveys.
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Cathleen McGuigan
January 14, 2021
One Comment
There are few great buildings in the world whose significance extends beyond the quality of architecture, history, or function. The U.S. Capitol reflects not only that trifecta of values but is the single most potent symbol of America’s republic.
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Cathleen McGuigan

January 2021 Editor's Letter: A Better Climate for Action

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Cathleen McGuigan
January 7, 2021
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As the time frame to address the environmental crisis begins to close, there are strong signs of positive change.


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IIMA

Louis Kahn’s Dormitories at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad Saved by International Outcry

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Cathleen McGuigan
William J.R. Curtis
January 4, 2021
One Comment
IIMA has cancelled plans to demolish the 18 dormitories designed by Louis Kahn that are part of the historic campus he created.
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LongHouse Reserve

Remembering Jack Lenor Larsen: 1927–2020

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Cathleen McGuigan
December 23, 2020
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The designer died on December 22, 2020 at the age of 93.


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AIA Board of Directors

AIA Changes Ethics Rules to Bar Design of Chambers for Execution, Torture, and Solitary Confinement

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Cathleen McGuigan
December 11, 2020
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Jane Frederick, the organization’s 2020 president, announced today that the group will bar its architect members from undertaking such work. Read the full release.
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December Editor's Letter: The Long Game

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Cathleen McGuigan
December 4, 2020
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While living through difficult, uncertain times, architects look at the future and see possibility.
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March 24, 2021

Patient Spaces and Privacy

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Is the tipping point finally here on ditching cubicle curtains? For at least the past decade, healthcare designers and facility managers have been predicting the demise of privacy curtains in hospital and clinical spaces. Many point to the rise of single-patient rooms which afford their own privacy. 

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Vitruvian Principles Applied to Firm Management: Commodity, Firmness and Delight of Project Accounting

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