Minutillo| Architectural Record

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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Cologne • International Furniture Fair

Josephine Minutillo

April 7, 2015

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imm Cologne has the distinction of not only being the first furniture fair of the year, but one of the biggest.

Josephine Minutillo

April 7, 2015

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imm Cologne has the distinction of not only being the first furniture fair of the year, but one of the biggest.

Suzanne Stephens

Josephine Minutillo

March 25, 2015

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How do you guarantee a view when you are in a valley in Switzerland? Thom Mayne of Morphosis decided to build as high as the mountains.

Innovations in Glass

Continuing Education: Corning Museum of Glass, New York

Reflections on the Box: A new addition at the Corning Museum of Glass by Thomas Phifer and Partners continues a tradition of invention at its upstate New York campus.

Josephine Minutillo

March 1, 2015

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A new addition at the Corning Museum of Glass by Thomas Phifer and Partners continues a tradition of invention at its upstate New York campus. Photo © Iwan Baan The addition's pristine exterior masks a series of inventive details that made it possible to sheathe the structure in a single layer of glass with few joints. To earn one AIA learning unit (LU), including one hour of health, safety, and welfare (HSW) credit, read each of the articles below, and complete the test online. Upon passing, you will receive a certificate of completion and your credit will automatically be reported

Fondation Vincent van Gogh

Fluor Architecture's renovation of a 15th century building for the Fondation Vincent van Gogh d'Arles exploits the city's brilliant sunlight.

Josephine Minutillo

February 15, 2015

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Fluor Architecture's renovation of a 15th century building for the Fondation Vincent van Gogh d'Arles exploits the city's brilliant sunlight.

Josephine Minutillo

February 10, 2015

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The first version of B&B's Landscape chaise lounge, designed by Jeffrey Bernett, was released in 2001. Rumors are swirling that Knoll—makers of such classics as Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Chair, Marcel Breuer's Wassily Chair, and Eero Saarinen's Tulip and Womb Chairs—is ready to buy contemporary Italian furniture line B&B Italia, known for stylishly elegant pieces by the likes of Antonio Citterio, Patricia Urquiola, and Mario Bellini. For its part, B&B Italia issued a denial of the rumors late Friday evening, following a story about the potential sale to Knoll on Italian website Pambianco.com, a go-to news source among Italy's

Josephine Minutillo

January 1, 2015

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Photos © Daici Ano (top); Roel Backaert (middle); Duccio Malagamba (bottom) Click here to view images. Robert Venturi’s iconic 1964 house for his mother in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, a departure from the “less is more” ideal of his architectural peers at the time, offered a strong but subtle statement. In his own words, its gabled form created “an almost symbolic image of a house.” These days, you can forget subtlety. A string of recent projects takes an in-your-face approach to revive the gable once again. In Tokyo, Sou Fujimoto stacks prototypical house shapes three stories high in a wood structure.

Equestrian Project

The 30,000 square-foot complex includes a freestanding main house flanked by stables and a riding ring.

Josephine Minutillo

December 16, 2014

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For a Mexican country home, CC Arquitectos positions living quarters and stables side by side to forge a closer bond between human and horse. One man’s passion for horses inspired the design of his family’s vacation home, set in the mountains two hours from Mexico City. The linear, gable-roofed wood structure contains four bedroom suites that float above the ground floor’s reception hall and the expansive living and dining area, finished in wood and stone and outfitted with furniture by renowned French designer Christian Liaigre. Additional quarters for the household help are also included in the elongated volume. Partially depressed

The Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College

Against The Grain: For an academic center, a former RECORD Vanguard architect revives a centuries-old building method to create a new archetype.

Josephine Minutillo

December 16, 2014

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For an academic center, a former RECORD Vanguard architect revives a centuries-old building method to create a new archetype. There is a common thread that runs through all of Studio Gang’s work.

Josephine Minutillo

December 16, 2014

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The bucolic backdrop of the recently opened Fondation Louis Vuitton, set within Paris’s Bois de Boulogne park, inspired a garden building in the tradition of Joseph Paxton’s long-destroyed Crystal Palace. Like that famous structure, erected in London’s Hyde Park in 1851, Frank Gehry’s billowing new museum features vast expanses of glass.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU; 1 IIBEC CEH

Evaluate advanced PVC solutions that improve fire resistance, support WUI compliance, and enhance resilience in residential and commercial building design.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU

Upon course completion, participants will possess a deeper understanding of glass railings to help ensure that safety, aesthetic, and performance objectives are achieved.