One of the most daunting challenges facing architects and engineers in their struggle to deliver net-zero energy buildings is a four-letter acronym: HVAC. But the good news is there is “huge opportunity to improve” the way buildings are heated and cooled today, Peter Rumsey, PE, principal of Rumsey Engineers in Oakland, told the audience at Architectural Record’s 2009 Innovation Conference in his Oct. 7 session, “The New Generation of Super-Efficient HVAC Systems.”

IBM's director of corporate strategy gave a talk on smart cities and the similarities and differences between Information Technology and Architecture.

The San Francisco nonprofit Architecture for Humanity (AFH) is raising money to send a team of architects and designers to survey the damage wreaked by Typhoon Ketsana in the Philippines, Vietnam, and Cambodia. I was struck by these photos by these photos of the flooding on the Boston Globe's always-excellent website, The

While adhering closely to all the Hollywood architect clichés, 500 Days of Summer does throw us a pleasant curveball: The main character's architectural background isn’t just mentioned and forgotten, as it so often is—it actually plays a key role in the plot—and, most amazingly, real-world architects get on-screen props!

The Associated Press has an amazing photo of thick, ruddy dust shrouding Jørn Utzon's Sydney Opera House...

Wondering whether this year's Monterey Design Conference will be able to renew the way we think about architecture.

The decision to hold the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen from December 7 to 18 this fall gave the design-oriented Danes an idea: heat up future discussions on global warming by organizing Copenhagen Design Week from August 27 to September 6.

Vincent Scully, Jr., whose books on architectural history and lectures at Yale College have influenced generations of architects and historians, announced on August 20th that he is stepping down from lecturing this fall.

Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz' wove together architecture, landscape, and sky at Woodland Cemetery, creating a remarkable place that shows us the power of design.