Product designers descended on New York last weekend for the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, WantedDesign, and various events in galleries, showrooms, and studios throughout the city. RECORD sent out a team of editors to scout for the best new products. Click the image below to view a slide show of what they found. A collection of geometric lighting by Bec Brittain at ICFF.

Though he's known for his sleek images of the latest in contemporary architecture—like Trey Trahan's new Louisiana State Museum or Rural Studio's Newbern Town Hall—photographer Timothy Hursley recently found inspiration in a perhaps uexpected place: a disused silo in rural Hale County, Alabama. Hursley spoke with literary journal Oxford American about what made the abandoned agrarian object his muse.

On the evening of May 29, Toyo Ito accepted the 38th Pritzker Architecture Prize at Boston’s John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on what would have been the president’s 96th birthday. Ito, who started his studio in Tokyo 42 years ago, had long been considered a leading candidate for the award. His ethereal architecture reexamines the relationship between structure and enclosure, as seen in his Sendai Mediatheque (2001), Tod’s Omotesando (2004), and his Tama Art University Library (2007). “Modernist architecture built a wall between itself and nature and relied on technology to create artificial environments with no connection to

Product designers and producers descended on New York last weekend for the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, Wanted Design, and a large group of other events in galleries, showrooms, and studios throughout the city. RECORD sent out a team of editors to scout for the best new products and check out the most interesting exhibitions. Click the image below to view a slide show of what they found. At ICFF Close up of StokkeAustad’s “The Woods: Autumn” glass sculpture.

Photo © Michael Moran The Museum of Modern Art in New York is expected to announce today that it has selected an architect to create a design for the site of the American Folk Art Museum's former home. Last month, MoMA stated its intention to raze the small museum building, an acclaimed design by Tod Williams Billie Tsien that was completed in 2001, to make way for an expansion of its own large facility on West 53rd Street in Manhattan. Word has it that the firm likely to be named is Diller Scofidio + Renfro. It is unclear whether the

The Museum of Modern Art in New York announced today that it has commissioned Diller Scofidio + Renfro to plan an expasion into the former site of the American Folk Art Museum.

Image courtesy Davidson Rafailidis/Storefront for Art and Architecture MirrorMirror, reflective tents by Davidson Rafailidis, will be on view in front of the New Museum beginning May 4. New York’s answer to London Design Week, a festival called NYCxDesign (pronounced “NYC by Design”) will run from May 10 to 21, coinciding with and building on the Frieze New York art fair (May 10-13) and the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (May 18-21). The brainchild of city council president and New York City mayoral candidate Christine Quinn, NYCxDesign won’t be creating events so much as positioning them under the new umbrella. “In the

Robert A. Ivy, FAIA, who has been Editor-in-Chief of Architectural Record since 1996, will become the Executive Vice President and CEO of the national American Institute of Architects, based in Washington, D.C. He assumes his new position on February 1. Photo © André Souroujon Robert A. Ivy, FAIA Ivy succeeds AIA head Christine McEntee, who stepped down in July to become the executive director of the American Geophysical Union. Paul Welch Jr., Honorary AIA, has served as the acting director since her departure, while the AIA searched for McEntee’s replacement. In addition to presiding over RECORD, Ivy has acted as

Photo courtesy RECORD archives Stephen A. Kliment, FAIA Stephen A. Kliment, FAIA, who was the editor of Architectural Record from 1990 to mid-1996, passed away on September 10 while visiting Germany. He was 78 years old. The cause of death was cancer, according to his wife Felicia Drury Kliment. Kliment had a varied career, working as a magazine and book editor, an architect, and a teacher. He led RECORD during the construction industry’s worst recession since the 1930s, shaping a leaner publication that emphasized straightforward writing and concern for architectural practice, not just architectural design. “Stephen Kliment upheld the century-old