After a two-year, pandemic-induced hiatus, the country’s largest architecture convention returned with a whirlwind of tours, sessions, and awards.

The 2022 Design Vanguard creates a pan-African “embassy of optimism” in an existing office building.

The 38 selected projects will be exhibited in Mies van der Rohe’s S.R. Crown Hall during this year’s AIA Conference in Chicago.

Designed by Skylab Architecture, the million-square-foot complex incorporates a variety of features referencing the tennis star.

Next year’s Biennale, curated by Lesley Lokko, will explore the twin imperatives of decolonization and decarbonization and center around Africa.

RECORD spoke with the 2022 Jane Drew Prize recipient about the need to rethink housing, linking academic research and practice, and new work.

Formally dedicated at a ceremony on May 5, the blue-and-yellow marker is located on the Baltic Sea island of Saaremaa, where Kahn was born in 1901.