Josephine Minutillo

Josephine Minutillo

Josephine Minutillo is editor in chief of Architectural Record. Trained as an architect, she began writing for RECORD in 2001 while practicing architecture, and has held several positions at the magazine over the past two decades. Her articles have appeared in many international publications. She has been an invited critic at Washington University in St. Louis, The Cooper Union, Columbia GSAPP, Pratt Institute, The City College of New York, and Yale University.
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Sculptural Skins

Sculptural Skins

Digital fabrication comes into its own for creating precisely crafted, complex building envelopes, even on larger projects.
Josephine Minutillo
Josephine Minutillo
September 16, 2014
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Digital fabrication has been employed in the production of everything from furniture and lighting to jewelry and cell phones, but its use for large-scale construction has been rare.


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Memorial to the Victims of Violence in Mexico

The Creative Spark: Lighting designer Gustavo Avilés illuminates the Memorial to the Victims of Violence in Mexico in Mexico City
Josephine Minutillo
Josephine Minutillo
August 16, 2014
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Lighting designer Gustavo Avilés illuminates the Memorial to the Victims of Violence in Mexico in Mexico City Erecting a monument to casualties of crime is never straightforward, and can be controversial.


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Building 337

Corporate Transparency: Rafael Viñoly reimagines the glass office building with a continuous workspace that wraps around a central atrium.
Josephine Minutillo
Josephine Minutillo
July 16, 2014
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To visit Building 337 on the Novartis campus in East Hanover, New Jersey, is to walk through it with awe, something akin to what visitors to Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building must have felt a century ago.


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Newsmaker: Smiljan Radić

Josephine Minutillo
Josephine Minutillo
June 18, 2014
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Smiljan Radić's 2014 Serpentine Pavilion opened to the public on June 26. The Serpentine Pavilion has become one of London’s leading summer attractions since launching in 2000. Last year’s cloud-like structure by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto within the city’s Kensington Gardens was visited by almost 200,000 people. In March, Serpentine Galleries Director Julia Peyton-Jones and Co-Director Hans Ulrich Obrist announced their selection of Chilean architect Smiljan Radić to design the 2014 edition of the temporary construction. A 2008 Architectural Record Vanguard, the architect may not be as well-known as some of his pavilion-designer predecessors – which include Rem Koolhaas, Frank
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Island Residence

There are times when a site is so perfect, so breathtaking, there is nothing for an architect to do but surrender to it.
Josephine Minutillo
Josephine Minutillo
June 16, 2014
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There are times when a site is so perfect, so breathtaking, there is nothing for an architect to do but surrender to it.


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New Orleans BioInnovation Center

Josephine Minutillo
Josephine Minutillo
June 16, 2014
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The success of a building is not often measured in quantifiable terms. But when Aaron Miscenich, the executive director of the New Orleans BioInnovation Center, embarked on a new building laden with energy-intensive labs on a former brownfield site in a depopulated area of the city's downtown, he needed hard numbers to make the gamble pay off. Begun in 2007—two years after Hurricane Katrina—the center was conceived as an incubator for biotechnology start-ups. “There was a stigma to the city,” says Mark Ripple, partner at New Orleans–based Eskew+Dumez+Ripple. “It was seen as contaminated goods, both literally and figuratively. Graduates from
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