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Great Displacement

Jake Bittle Documents Climate Displacement Across the United States in New Book

Review: ‘The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration' by Jake Bittle
Anthony Acciavatti
March 14, 2023
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Extensive field research reveals how climate change has already impacted and reshaped communities.
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Who is the City For

A Chicago Architecture Critic Interrogates the Role of Design in Constructing the City's History

Review: ‘Who is the City for? Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago’ by Blair Kamin
Eric Mumford
March 6, 2023
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Blair Kamin chronicles a recent urban history of Chicago architecture.
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Architect Verb

Reinier de Graaf's Latest Book Is a How-To Guide for Architect-ing

Review: 'Architect, Verb: The New Language of Building' by Reinier de Graaf
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Tim Abrahams
February 22, 2023
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OMA partner and the author of three books over the last six years, Reinier de Graaf writes from within the world of architecture on everything from building codes to architectural awards.
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Revisiting Anna Bokov's 'Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920–1930'

Eric Mumford
February 10, 2023
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With the Cooper Union exhibition on Vkhutemas now moving ahead in spring after being postponed under a cloud of controversy, we take a look back at the comprehensive volume published in 2021 that precedes the forthcoming show.


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Fifty Years After ‘Learning from Las Vegas,’ Denise Scott Brown Gets Her Due

Review: 'Denise Scott Brown In Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect,' edited by Frida Grahn
Izzy kornblatt
Izzy Kornblatt
February 7, 2023
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An expansive new volume—the first collection of writings dedicated solely to Scott Brown—includes personal remembrances among other essays.


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Digesting Metabolism

A New Volume Provides Food for Thought on Metabolist Architecture in Japan

Review: Digesting Metabolism: Artificial Land in Japan 1954–2202 by Casey Mack
Naomi Pollock, FAIA
January 30, 2023
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As opposed to Modernism’s swapping of old for new, Metabolism promoted “replacement as an ongoing process.”


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African Modernism Book Cover

Back in Print, Second Edition of 'African Modernism' Surveys Architecture Across the Continent

Review: 'African Modernism. The Architecture of Independence: Ghana, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Zambia,' edited by Manuel Herz with Ingrid Schröder, Hans Focketyn, and Julia Jamrozik
David Adjaye
January 26, 2023
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Reread David Adjaye’s thoughtful review of the compendium, originally published in Architectural Record in October 2015.
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Piranesi and the Modern Age

G.B. Piranesi, Influencer Across Centuries

Review: "Piranesi and the Modern Age" by Victor Plahte Tschudi
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Izzy Kornblatt
January 24, 2023
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A new book shows how Piranesi helped to define modernity—and how modernity in turn defined Piranesi.
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Architecture and Design Monographs

A Round-Up of New Design Monographs

RECORD Editors
December 15, 2022
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A handful of new books document practices across the globe, covering a range of cultural and civic projects and urgent ecological and societal issues.
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Emergent Tokyo

Jorge Almazán and Studiolab's New Book Spotlights Spontaneous Urban Design in Tokyo

Review: 'Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City' By Jorge Almazán + Studiolab
Daniel Brook
November 18, 2022
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The Spanish-born architect and educator offers an insightful study of his adopted home, countering the claim of Tokyo’s "only-in-Japan" urban origin myth.
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