Boston's young and mid-career practices find common ground in their training and research-based design. The Next Wave Boston’s next wave of architects is nationally, culturally, and ideologically diverse. They are drawn to the city by its schools and united in their intensive quest for formal and material expression. Judging by precedent, one would expect to see these firms blossom in the 2010s and beyond—but some are already breaking the mold. Photo © Jeff Goldberg/Esto Related Links: Amherst Residence by Anmahian Winton Grant/Fulton Recital Hall by Brian Healy Architects Fleet Library by office dA House in New England by office dA

Boston's young and mid-career practices find common ground in their training and research-based design. The New Establishment Members of the newly emerged generation of Boston architects would cavil with the notion that they are in any way a new establishment—a common theme in all of these practices is not one of style but the imperative for constant critical enquiry. If there is any merit in the attempt to identify a DNA of Boston architecture, it is to find it in the uniform rejection of such complacent categorization. Photo ' Peter Vanderwarker Related Links: Amherst Residence by Anmahian Winton Grant/Fulton Recital

Boston's young and mid-career practices find common ground in their training and research-based design. The bold cantilever of Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Institute of Contemporary Art thrusting over the waters of Boston Harbor revealed to locals that there could indeed be life beyond brick [RECORD, March 2007, page 108]. There is also something happening in Boston from the bottom up, an effervescence of local firms, startups that promise to sweep away some of the cobwebs that still accrue to the “Athens of America.” Photo ' John Horner Related Links: Amherst Residence by Anmahian Winton Grant/Fulton Recital Hall by Brian Healy