Articles by Suzanne Stephens

Image Courtesy Dorothy Alexander Ada Louise Huxtable at her New York apartment on March 7, 1974. Everyone has a favorite quote from the architecture critic par excellence, Ada Louise Huxtable. A pithy one dates to 1973: “The let-them-eat-travertine perfectionism of SOM superstar Gordon Bunshaft is seldom less belligerently anti­human these days,” she wrote in the New York Times about an office building in New York. Huxtable, who died of cancer on January 7 at 91, brought architecture criticism visibility and influence at a crucial time. In the boom years after World War II, the banality of commercial Modernism, the demolition

'Forceful,' 'acrobatic,' 'muscular,' 'raw,' even 'gritty' are usually the operative adjectives to describe the architecture of Thom Mayne (2013 AIA Gold Medalist) and his firm, Morphosis.

Jorge Gracia, the 39-year-old founder of Gracia Studio, has quickly built a reputation for distinctive Modernist architecture in his hometown of Tijuana, Mexico.

The Making of a Landmark, New York Style Image courtesy dbox for Foster + Partners/L&L Holding Company An interior view of Foster + Partners' winning design for 425 Park Avenue.

A library by David Adjaye fits into a D.C. park with serenity and dynamism.

Getting on the short list of an invited design competition is one thing. Nailing it is another. Photo courtesy MVRDV/Wieland & Gouwens MVRDV's animation for the China Comic and Animation Museum in Hangzhou helped get the commission in 2011. Does the best design always win a competition? Not necessarily. Vying for a commission is a tricky process, especially when you're up against a short list of your peers. Who can forget the impression that Daniel Libeskind made in the public presentation a decade ago for plans to rebuild Ground Zero? With less experience than the other six contending teams, he

Photo by Ezra Stoller © Esto Franzen's own home—in Rye, New York—was featured in the inaugural Record Houses issue in May of 1956. Ulrich Joseph Franzen, a prominent New York architect in the latter part of the 20th century, died after a brief illness on October 6 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the age of 91. After studying at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in the mid-1940s when Walter Gropius was its chair of architecture, Franzen became part of a cohort that would disseminate the Modernist vocabulary of the Bauhaus founder in the U.S. during the boom period

How do you design a workspace that expresses the digital world of flux and virtual reality?