Asad Syrkett

Five days after the Museum of Modern Art announced it would raze the former home of the American Folk Art Museum (which it purchased in 2011) for a planned expansion, the controversy continues to simmer.

The iconic gable-roofed tree house got an update last August as part of Dartmoor Arts Week, an arts-education program in Drewsteignton, England.

Elemental is at the fore of socially conscious design. Gary Hustwit featured the Chilean design office’s subsidized-housing units in Santiago in his well-received 2011 documentary Urbanized. And the firm’s monograph Incremental Housing and Participatory Design Manual appeared in time for the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale last August. Record caught up with Elemental’s executive director, Alejandro Aravena, to talk about the firm, its soon-to-be-completed housing in the Chilean city of Constitución, and Aravena’s stance on the role of architects in sheltering the world’s expanding population.

"Beer," Benjamin Franklin supposedly said, "is constant proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

Encircled by a stand of towering deciduous trees, Benjamin E. Mays High School keeps a low profile, despite having been home to such notable alumni as visual artist Radcliffe Bailey and musician Cee Lo Green, and currently being the largest school serving grades nine through 12 in the Atlanta Public Schools (APS). 

Don't let the name fool you'Single Speed Design (SsD)'s architectural approach is more like a 10-speed bicycle than a fixed-gear model, with principals Jinhee Park, 40, and John Hong, 43, shifting their approach with each new project.

A panel convened Thursday night by the New York Chapter of the AIA tackled difficult planning questions raised in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Photo courtesy Center for Architecture The panel (from left), included moderator Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic of the New York Times; Stephen Cassell, principal at New York-based Architecture Research Office; Howard Slatkin, director of sustainability with the New York City Department of City Planning; Cynthia Barton, housing recovery plan manager at the Office of Emergency Management; Dr. Klaus Jacob, professor of disaster risk management at Columbia University; Donna Walcavage, a landscape architect with AECOM; and Rob Rogers,

Generally, Iraqi-born British architect Zaha Hadid deals in organic forms more amoebic than botanic.